Oddbean new post about login | logout Stubbornness and hoping people use software they way you want them to is not going to lead to adoption. Bitcoiners thought everyone will just use bitcoin the way it was in the early days and it clearly didn’t happen. It took years of UX improvements to get more people onboarded. Coinbase, as much as everyone hates them, made that much easier. The same will be the case for nostr. “You’ll use it this way and you’ll like” it is pure hopium / unrealistic dreams.
i've learnt that very few will do what it takes to make it work - 9/10 people i've met just come up with excuses. Same here
adding a note here in case this gets lost in translation. I think that working on open source projects, Bitcoin, and Nostr is admirable and important. I think juggling between the tech aspect + diff ecosystem + user needs + outreach can be difficult. But one has to figure out what they don’t know before they can identify the help they need - and perhaps that journey is what needs to be expanded on right now. If one believes they are always right, then it becomes challenging. Same goes for everybody, same goes for you, same goes for me. Life is a continuous learning experience.
correct. people use Fiat because it has the best UX. they know its crap, but it's easy
The market decides. Listen to what the market is asking for. Resistance only brings regret.
Exactly. The fundamentals of a technology must stay the same but the user interface must always improve. nostr:nevent1qqsdadwxew68ydg4j8y3y53f04c3uq4m4tq2vmg62vrv49xv9vnmmkspz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3qr0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgsxpqqqqqqz3mp9ef
Coinbase bitcoin is not bitcoin ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I recommend the shit hole that is Coinbase to frens I've just Orangepilled because despite Brians propensity to turn off his servers during a bull run, they do at least hold onchain verified funds for the ETFs. They are like the banks that are too big to fail. I am actually advising one fren to keep his coins ON coinbase because he is not capable of operating a hardware wallet yet (and may never be). Remember, it will never be possible for 8 billion people to self custody.
How so? If you can withdraw … I’ve used Coinbase in the early days and that was probably the point where a lot of people joined the network.
This is interesting because on one hand we've got people on one side of the scaling debate advocating for the ability for everyone to have access to a utxo (full/shared) (onchain scaling) and on the other hand, those advocating for 2nd and 3rd layer solutions to achieve scalability. If one is saying the only way to achieve mass usage of #bitcoin is through layer solutions (exchanges being one of them), then it would seem #Bitcoin in its current state is good enough since most people won't custody their coins themselves. interesting observing the dichotomy between the two pov. nostr:nevent1qqsdadwxew68ydg4j8y3y53f04c3uq4m4tq2vmg62vrv49xv9vnmmkspremhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet59upzqx78pgq53vlnzmdr8l3u38eru0n3438lnxqz0mr39wg9e5j0dfq3qvzqqqqqqy5d4grr