Consumer Crypto

Ezra Klein during his latest podcast: 

"crypto is a solution endlessly looking for a problem"

He's not that wrong. Hopefully changes now that the UX is almost at parity. Seems like the entire history of crypto has just been a story of getting to that starting line.

permissionless tools are only seen as useless to those who have never been denied permission

imo one of the fundamental divides in crypto culture and discourse is between those who have experienced debanking and difficulty accessing financial products, and those who have not.

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