Ethereum

So many of the issues with crypto stem from a few simple facts: getting crypto sucks, holding crypto sucks, using crypto sucks. Scalability opens the door for non-financial apps but the wallets and on-ramps are still completely broken.

Wallets are so entirely busted it's wild. No one can use any of this stuff without fear of losing all their money. People have less than $1k in their bank accounts and you think they're not gonna be anxious putting 50% of that into a wallet?

Anyway this topic frustrates me. Before normal people can use crypto for normal things, it needs to not be terrifying to use.

I think it's extra frustrating because we can see a path towards fixing this in ways that weren't possible before, whereas in meatspace these things are just permanently broken. (Getting a hammer sucks, not losing the hammer sucks, using a hammer sucks.)

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

The tech branch unlock is there: we have the surface area to build our dream programmable security with whatever properties we can imagine... but we need tooling to unlock more people capable of experimenting with it safely, and that takes a lot of work without direct financial incentives.

Honestly most frustrating is the fact that we can see a path towards fixing it and yet... where is the progress? I still have hope that L2s can help solve because the protocol is suddenly more malleable again. Wallets and protocols need to work together very tightly.