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.

The fact that >90% of tokens that Coingecko might label as "infrastructure" are scams has nothing to do with the fact that infrastructure heavy lifting is the #1 action item for the next decade to get us towards a billion users anywhere (and not get them all rugged just like you get rugged by "infra" today)

All the infra keeps rugging. Chasing metas and self dealing.

I really didn't appreciate the need for privacy until I realized how good socal engineered attacks are becoming because everything we do is public. 

No normie would be able to keep up.

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.