Found this “rant” to be very inspiring by @jessepollak .  Has all the right points, I started skeptic, grew in belief, then landed with f-yeah, let’s get it. 

I now believe the issue is that we are calling it “coin” and people’s biases are quickly called up because money in society is such a taboo thing, not realizing how we speak of things is so closely tied to our relationship with money. 

Jesse, my small thought may be that you are 99% correct in your target and 1% off in your words. Maybe we need to replace “coin” with something more aligned in cultural relevance. 

idk the answer, but I think that really may be the problem.

This is so retarded it like inspires me to leave crypto. It’s like the opposite of a 2019 vitalik blog https://t.co/OuWCxQRie8

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Found this “rant” to be very inspiring by @jessepollak .  Has all the right points, I started skeptic, grew in belief, then landed with f-yeah, let’s get it. 

I now believe the issue is that we are calling it “coin” and people’s biases are quickly called up because money in society is such a taboo thing, not realizing how we speak of things is so closely tied to our relationship with money. 

Jesse, my small thought may be that you are 99% correct in your target and 1% off in your words. Maybe we need to replace “coin” with something more aligned in cultural relevance. 

idk the answer, but I think that really may be the problem. 

https://x.com/based16z/status/1913272563142373622?s=46

coins

I like @zora

but do you know what I like even more? any app that embraces this moment to try using coins for content and attention, while creating positive sum outcomes for creators

the overton window just got blown wide open - go find out what's outside

this is why Jesse is where he's at and I where I am. He is okay with leverage the opportunity of now, while understanding the future is going to come as it comes but we can't control that. We must control it now. So push the narrative while it's still hot, put yourself in a better vantage point so when it really matters you can pull the trigger.

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this is why Jesse is where he's at and I where I am. He is okay with leverage the opportunity of now, while understanding the future is going to come as it comes but we can't control that. We must control it now. So push the narrative while it's still hot, put yourself in a better vantage point so when it really matters you can pull the trigger. 

https://warpcast.com/jessepollak/0x231c79bb

disagree with “we are close”. From where you, and even I sit, I’d say yeah we may be close. 

But when I talk to people, we are very far. 

I think renorming “coin” is certainly a way but it’s going to be the least efficient path, or one of the least. 

it’s asking to remove someone’s priors. Idk about you, but I’m very opened minded and sometimes deeply stubborn, and if that’s me open minded, idk what to say about the majority which live in closed loops. 

I think we need to meet them where they are, then we can rebrand into a new norm.

we just need to renorm coin - we are close :)

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no. 

i think coin immediately surfaces ideology of money. go ask the next person you talk to "how many coins do you have?" or "what coins do you own?" or "how much money do you have?" or any question that closely relates to the word money. 

There isn't a place in the world that I have visited, been to 4 continents, where I can easily ask someone anything about money.

to add to my previous thought. 

people will feel less pulled into onboarding when words that cause tension are deeply ingrained into the onboarding flow. I think coin in moder day definition, and cultural atache of blockchain is very dumbed down and generic, but to the outside world where the billions we are wishing to onboard live. Coin is not dumbed down, it's super complex because it requires the level of understanding that a blockchain exist, that people and onchain wallets exist, and that you collect things to show proof of ownership. 

This pattern of behavior exist in an entirely diferent planet than the millions of people, or billions, base is trying to onboard that don't even have wallets or know anything except that bitcoin is something happening somewhere.

Don't you think the word coin makes it more generic and helps onboard faster as it's more relevant to masses which is the billions to be onboarded mission by jessee and base?