users care about the certainty of many guarantees offered by blockchains ("you control these funds", "this app can't steal your username"), and decentralization (of different kinds) is part of what makes those guarantees hard

Hot take:

End users just want products that work well, they don’t give a damn about decentralization.

Andy

users care about the certainty of many guarantees offered by blockchains ("you control these funds", "this app can't steal your username"), and decentralization (of different kinds) is part of what makes those guarantees hard

https://x.com/ayyyeandy/status/1882705439571534004

"only the EF can do" significantly weakens those guarantees

what's something that only the EF can do?

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

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