Re-listening to @dwr.eth and @fredwilson.eth chat, and had a realization — web to mobile was a straightforward platform shift (relatively speaking), yet Tumblr and other web players couldn’t adapt

Crypto is a much more Byzantine platform shift, yet many assume incumbents will learn how to add wallets and chains — unlikely!

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Re-listening to @dwr.eth and @fredwilson.eth chat, and had a realization — web to mobile was a straightforward platform shift (relatively speaking), yet Tumblr and other web players couldn’t adapt

Crypto is a much more Byzantine platform shift, yet many assume incumbents will learn how to add wallets and chains — unlikely!

https://youtu.be/Kqf_9NxhMfI?feature=shared

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playing the other side:
is it similar to platform shifts (web to mobile) tho? or more like swapping paypal vs stripe vs some legacy credit card provider for your website/app

yeah i could be wrong 
though the whole 'abstracting crypto away' means that there should be no change to the interface 

i mean
as much as i like the idea of this being a platform shift
it just seems like that thesis is contradictory to the 'user mustn't know its crypto' approach that's popular amongst some consumer products

Good counterpoint, but I think you could reason about mobile that way (and arguably, companies did... and failed)

Ie. "is it a real platform shift, or is it just changing the size of the screen?"

Narrator: it was a real platform shift