lots of people asking this privately but no one asking publicly

why is everyone so angry we don’t have any crypto apps

and why did we abandon integrating or transferring existing apps to be onchain

why the obsession with net new apps

[i have my own answer but steelmanning is good thought experiment for us all]

/ted | exploring the onchain frontier | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina

because all of the infra works if there are an order of magnitude more apps than infra 

most people work in infra

*ducks*

so the infra people are mad that there aren’t more apps because infra only works with apps?

also like… why net new apps !!!! 

whats undesirable about having more starbucks rewards platforms onchain?

Always seemed like a lot of liability for v little return for Starbucks 

Their annual revenue is 36 billion

they got $4M from it 

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