gas is preventing Ethereum from being valuable to a mass market, IE. imagine paying $5 to upload your art to Behance or Dribbble, or even paying a $30 gas fee to mint something free

mattwelter.com — making farcaster apps FarcasterUserStats.com

This is what everyone was saying about gold, fiat, checks, credit cards, and now Ethereum.

/grey — designer & writer. co-host /fashion lore // lesgreys.com

It used to.

The txn cost is always something that gets compressed when talking about networks.

Visa and Mastercard are a great example of that. 

Check out TXN fees in the early days. Now can you imagine a world where you don’t pay stuff via a Visa or MC rail? (Debit or credit)

trying to understand, im talking about similar instances like i said above, it's a different ecosystem, lets say i want to "claim" some NFT for free, some days the transaction might cost $5, and if the network is congested, could be $50+, for something that's free, that doesn't happen with gold/fiat/checks/etc