What would you say to a person that thinks that crypto products (stuff built on the networks themselves) are solutions seeking a problem?

I had an incredibly spirited discussion with a non crypto friend of mine and was low key struggling to defend crypto enabled products. Help?

experience researcher & treasure hunter /openux || /manansh

talk about enterprise... jk

don't have a great answer but I think this clip from 1995 is worth looking back on (start from 3:08)

https://youtu.be/fs-YpQj88ew?t=188

I was going to bring it up. But they didn’t really care about all that.

I was talking to a UX friend and they were walking through all the systemic problems they saw.

Stuff like how blockspace is a privilege to the people who can pay, it’s plutocratic, not usable, etc…

All I could say was: it’s the game theory.  That’s why it’s the way it is.

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Try asking them what was the first smartphone they bought and when did they buy it? 

The first iPhone couldn’t do much when  compared to what todays iPhones do, heck it didn’t even have an App Store and only a few could afford it. It’s was a good to have.