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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.

      13 replies 11 retweets 260 likes
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    3. 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.

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      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.

      9:28 AM - 25 Feb 2021
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        1. Dom Parry‏ @domparry Feb 25
          Replying to @paulg

          Have you met @LunoGlobal?

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        1. Jay Zalowitz‏ @jayzalowitz Feb 25
          Replying to @paulg

          This is rediculously true, I’ve literally only ever seen one crypto startup I’ve wanted to invest in because they are focused on solving a problem in a way my grandmother wouldn’t have to think about it and be safe using it.

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        1. The Golden Yogi U/2218‏ @yogi_golden Feb 25
          Replying to @paulg

          Engineers have been plagued by this for ages.

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        1. Sourav Kumar‏ @souravk229 Feb 25
          Replying to @paulg

          That's means we need an Bill Gates and a Steve Jobs for crypto?

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        1. Spencer Hillman‏ @spencerforhire Feb 25
          Replying to @paulg

          I used Metamask and UniSwap for the first time recently and was amazed at how far crypto UX has come (and just how bad it was, because that's still a rather low bar).

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        1. NiM∆  🤔 🤖 ⛓️‏ @insideNiMA Feb 25
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          This is exactly why I joined and believe in NEAR. Most of the team are non-crypto badasses from Google, Facebook, ... web2 giants. As a result devs can build web2-like experiences with web3 security/tech. Scaling Crypto UX to billions. 🚀

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        2. Oleh Shliazhko‏ @Ollmer Feb 25
          Replying to @paulg

          Paul, could you advise some approaches to overcome such blindness? It's so difficult to even remember how things look like when they were new to you.

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        3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg Feb 25
          Replying to @Ollmer

          Go and talk to ordinary people.

          2 replies 2 retweets 19 likes
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        1. Seth‏ @sethtringale Feb 25
          Replying to @paulg

          As a GUI application writer, this hits home.

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        2. Carlos A. Lepesqueur‏ @calepes Feb 25
          Replying to @paulg

          @readwiseio save thread

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        3. Readwise‏ @readwiseio Feb 25
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          Done! We've saved this whole thread to your library so you can revisit/remember it 🧠📚 Stats: • 3 saves of this thread (ranked #3299) • 85 unique saves of paulg's threads (ranked #26) • 127 total saves of paulg's threads (ranked #79)

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