| I think we shouldn't try to "retrofit" existing mechanics into blockchain. It brought a whole new potential of "programmable money" and being able to tokenize everything with users in control and no censoring (at least generally in theory). We should be building dApps that incentivize sharing/hosting things (e.g. Databases (Bluzelle), files (Sia/Filecoin/IPFS), hosting (again IPFS and perhaps some Tor-like layer that can "talk" to blockchain with any kind of servers), providing data (prediction markets/Augur) which can all coordinate with chains and tokenize any good behavior and sharing resources with incentives at a global level. Crypto should not be for "web2 and below", it should be for "web3 and above" (sorry for the buzzword, but it really defines the culture that I'm talking about). It should perhaps be a whole new layer on top of TCP/IP, and can coordinate with the regular web at interface points, otherwise being a whole new thing by itself. But we will need some sort of transition and Metamask on "regular" sites is doing well (but not enough yet) for now. Most of the examples above have perhaps more efficient applications already, but they are all controlled by other entities. I believe blockchain is more about philosophy of every "thing" being addressable and "actable" using a private key that can sign anything publicly with no authority (which is the most important point), and blockchain is the main application of it, yet. |
I'm a big fan of it and joined plenty of signing parties but I will tell you a secret: no one else cares.
No one cares about 2fa, backups, decentralization for decentralization sake, security...
Even the crazy Snowden findings.