My most cancelable take is that we are still ~a decade away from being able to onboard a billion daily users to any chain 

But what if you try today anyway? 
- in the odd chance of success your settlement layer doesn't scale
- no user has any privacy whatsoever
- you build on a tech stack (VM, RPC standards, SC language) that will change multiple times until we settle on what will eventually onboard a billion users
- your users need a wallet and the UX of all of them is a disgrace - which isn't a dig, it just isn't possible yet to optimize UX in such a rapidly moving environment

The only way to fix all of that is investing in infrastructure and getting all of that right - I know you hate hearing that also

VP Tech Gnosis, founder HOPR. I believe in empowerment of the individual through decentralization and privacy.

Fully agreed on the privacy part tbh. Encouraging onboarding normies who may not understand the indelible trail of public records they are leaving in their wake feels completely irresponsible.

Contributor @ /walletbeat.

Censorship resistance requires privacy.

They're stored in somewhat-accountable mutable data silos rather than forever out there immutable for the whole public to see. Not that that excuses any of the egregious surveillance that web2 companies do, but in practice this does limit the downsides by comparison.

They don't understand how indelible theirs tracks are on web2 either... So it's not a web3 specific issue.

Kinda. Maybe. They are leaving the trail anyway. Just owned by others.