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In crypto we tend to forget the hoops people will jump through if they really want something If you think your product is failing because the ux is bad then you may have bigger problems

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I agree. I call this the Publisher’s Clearinghouse phenomenon. There was this guy, Ed McMahon, who used to show up on people’s doorsteps in America with a cartoonishly huge check for a million dollars, and people went bananas. I mean full-blown, cut-and-paste-a-million-little-stamps-bananas. They’d do these elaborate stamp puzzles and mail them in with the hope that maybe, just maybe, Ed would knock on their door. The real trick—the heartbreaking, sock-you-in-the-ribs trick—is getting people to move, really move, when there’s no pot of gold. No real money. No clear reward. Just the vague, hopeful scent of meaningful value. That’s where most products die. They die on the altar of unclear value and even slightly inconvenient UX, because it turns out people aren’t as motivated by community (before it’s formed) or creativity (for the sake of creativity) or “the joy of discovery” as we—appreciators of art, math and culture—like to think. Not without frictionless fomo-peppered path.

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the reasons why i truly believe in @jessepollak’s vision for commentcoins is that they enable anyone to instantly turn anything into a potentially valuable work of art (a cultural readymade if you will)- this work could one day be as valuable as any of check from ed mcmahon. it’s that feeling when you’re creation contentcoins. that lottery ticket that i think will make this the killer consumer product. btw i’ve personally onboarded 10 gen z users to zora pre-noon on this sunny Saturday in NYC https://zora.co/coin/base:0xebe8f61025f624081aca50cbac43c7617638282d?referrer=0x52da438ebc256c23fec296d86c0db0b249fd188d

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That potential that you’re describing is for a content coin to go viral and essentially turn into a memecoin I think content coins actually solve a huge provenance issue with memecoins that costs people millions of dollars in the early stages of a memecoin’s lifecycle i.e. if someone wants to bet on something getting more attention, which token do you buy I don’t think most creators live to create viral content and content coins won’t be for them

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agree with first point. i would caveat your last point. i think most artists don’t create to make something go viral. but i do think most content creators do create in the hope of potentially going viral. when we use the word “creators” we combine both “artists” and “content creators.” and it gets even more confusing because the lines of de-MARK-action are not clear (was that word art creation? or content creation? - does the MARK who made the word want it to be in museum? or generate royalties? or both?) but “going viral” is that’s the fifteen mins of fame of the now. for most creators. that’s why i beleive content coins are going to be the mainstream breakout product. they’re built to scale into the—admittedly cringe—dream shared by many who post. that’s the cringe dream of owning a koenigsegg. you could potentially do 531 km/h up the west side highway hooting and hollering like a blind al pacino in scent of a woman

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