2 sats \ 0 replies \ @m3anm4chine 8 Jan 2022 freebie \ on: Moxie Marlinspike: My first impressions of web3 bitcoin
Its a well written artcile that summarizes lots of problems in the industry and shines a light to problems that are present in bitcoin community as well. Our thinking is too purist, we imagine everyone on the planet should care about what money is as much as we do, spend significant time understanding underlying technology and how to use it properly. Instead we should be building products that have smarter UX that normies can understand as well - my grandma will never care about or understand coin control and address reuse. We must start thinking about design patterns that enable privacy and "proper" use by default, abstracting it away in ways people are familiar with and used to thinking in those terms already.
In regards to people not wanting to run their own servers - i absolutely agree and i've been doing it professionally for ages. On the other hand industry has been normalizing usage of hardware wallets (which we can all agree have horrible UX) for a while now and more and more people are using them so with enough incentive and lowering barriers to entry things could progress in the right direction. Before Umbrel running your own node or home server required some level of technical proficiency, now people who never in their lives imagined they would be running their own servers at home are doing it because the UX is roughly the same as copying photos from your sd card which everyone under 50 did at some point in their life by now. Having more options like this where people could easily buy a box of compute to plug in at home will democratize a tiny bit of self sovereignty and maybe push the needle a bit more towards decentralization.