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I find it vital to distinguish blockchain technology from cryptocurrency in defining the onboarding problem and its solutions. Cryptocurrency is a referential perspective on a subset of blockchain transactions, but blockchain technology deserves more than being under-imagined as a fiat replacement. It’s a centralized-data power and authority replacement that can go in utopian and apocalyptic directions. Many human pain points can be related to fiat being an inaccurate and manipulated value ledger— but telling a consumer they’re harmed by fractional reserve banking and other fiat theatrics is like telling a fish the water is dirty. What else is the fish supposed to dream of? The fish must believe there’s a continent it can evolve for and learn to walk on. Humans living as derivatives of centralized data must believe that owning their data, from currency to social media to healthcare to the car they drive— is a continent worth evolving for and learning to walk on.
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I don’t get the own your data argument. I don’t feel like I own my data on Farcaster. The world owns it. It’s like Twitter on steroids.
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That's because the primitives to own your data and actually use it productively are still in development. The dream is everyone owning their data. I like @tayzonday's analogy of fish evolving legs to walk on land. We're still fish dreaming of owning our own data.
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What does owning your data look like then? Files on my computer?
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