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    1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg Feb 25

      Paul Graham Retweeted Charles Hoskinson

      What novel technology will do for cryptocurrency what GUIs did for personal computers and the web did for the internet? If you have even an inkling of the answer, the expected value of that insight is enormous.https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1364940839332573191 …

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      Charles HoskinsonVerified account @IOHK_Charles
      A visual representation of the current cryptocurrency user experience pic.twitter.com/NH2eZHlt6h
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    2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg Feb 25

      One of the things standing in your way is that such ideas have to come from cryptocurrency experts, and yet most cryptocurrency experts are proud of their mastery of the currently difficult user experience, and thus minimize it.

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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg Feb 25

      Present-day cryptocurrency experts are like neckbeard hackers in the 80s saying "who needs more than a command line?" and thus failing to invent GUIs. Or if you want a more recent example, the people who said "just write a cron job" and thus failed to start Dropbox.

      9:22 AM - 25 Feb 2021
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        1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg Feb 25

          Being an expert means doing hard things easily, and this, paradoxically, makes you blind to opportunities to make them even easier. And yet such opportunities yield hyperlinear returns. Make something half as difficult, and you'll get way more than twice as many users.

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        1. ko₿.eth aka ko₿ΞOS‏ @CryptoKobe Feb 25
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          On fire dude

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        1. Richard Hall‏ @minimumnz Feb 25
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          With nbatopshot they've abstracted away the blockchain aspect of it, removing that friction has been key to their success.

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        1. Peter DePaulo‏ @PotatoDepaulo Feb 25
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          Hey, we're working on this! I'm going to email you something cool. 😃

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        1. A.‏ @AKsionzik Feb 25
          Replying to @paulg

          Marlowe, a cardano project for example allows non crypto people to write smart contracts in financial language

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        1. Whiffies‏ @Whiffies Feb 25
          Replying to @paulg

          In the future everyone trades @nba_topshot as currency.

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        1. Nishith Rastogi‏ @nishith_rastogi Feb 25
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          Why facebook, when we have Usenet :)

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        2. Stanley Yang‏ @StanleyCYang Feb 25
          Replying to @paulg

          This is actually good insight. I've realized that the broader population has difficulty understanding blockchain concepts and cryptocurrencies in general. The current enthusiasm is only due to the parabolic rate of return on bitcoin.

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        3. Corey ₿aker‏ @baker_heights Feb 25
          Replying to @StanleyCYang @paulg

          I don't think the broader population has a difficult time understanding what a blockchain is. But even those creating cryptocurrencies or building on blockchains don't really understand what use cases make a blockchain necessary.

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        1. Ty Roney‏ @TKRoney Feb 25
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          💯Exactly what @mcuban said on the @BanklessHQ podcast this week.

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