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Murtaza Hussain
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Speaking as someone who is reasonably capable at navigating around crypto I would say that in general crypto is far too complicated for the average person. If you say OK there is a thing called Bitcoin, that’s fine. Then you add that there’s a second one called Ethereum, that does some different stuff that’s also OK, but you’re pushing the limit. Then add literally infinite chains, subchains, tokens, networks, wallets and whatever else and it becomes genuinely mind-boggling and too much for any ordinary person, who will most likely just revert back to their Chase Bank accounts which they can trust and don’t really have to think too much about. Until and unless the whole thing becomes simple and intuitive, with a limited set of reliable options readily built into things that people are already familiar with and want to use in general, it will remain sort of a niche speculative asset.
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Actually think companies like Coinbase have a big role to play here. In the same way you can live your entire online life in the hands of a few large tech companies and many do because it’s easy to trust an Google or Amazon, but a smaller subset of people go off the beaten track into the more obscure, sometimes more dangerous parts of the web. So too will the majority of people live out to their entire onchain lives in the hands of a Coinbase. Just doesn’t feel that way at the moment because like the pioneers of the internet, the pioneers of crypto are happy to go off the beaten path (and sometimes suffer the consequences) and the infrastructure to live inside the safe bubble isn’t fully up and running.
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