Building FailSafe Products Is The Key To Cryptos Adoption

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Hey JessInternet users

Having been in the crypto space for several years now, I realise how hard it is for people to get in, stay in and find value in crypto. We all know the systems are clunky, projects are created and abandoned all the time, and with decentralisation, things don't develop in a straight line like it does with say a centralised company with one focus and vision.

The open-source nature of crypto means that as new projects are created, others can benefit from it, and at the moment we do not see the exponential growth is at its earliest.

We who are in crypto now accept the steep learning curve, and we're open to experimenting and risking capital. This is a tiny minority willing to do so and thinking more people are going to be willing will keep you away from mass adoption.

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Education only gets us so far

Yes, of course, education is essential, and we should always strive to educate as many users as possible. If they are willing to accept the steep learning curve, theoretically they should receive higher rewards for being in crypto earlier and taking the time to deal with the nuances we currently face.

Education will bring more people into crypto, but it also has its limits, many people don't need crypto or are not willing to deal with the complexities of holding their own money.

Others may not be able to understand it, or they are stuck in their ways, and some need time.

We're all one big test case

The users we have now are all those willing to test things out, to break it, to lose capital upfront to make gains in the future hopefully. Bitcoin is the anchor, but crypto as a whole is a sandbox idea, many of them shitty but we don't know which theory or which iteration of the concept will take hold.

Each project brings with it new learnings, be it in the success or failure, this process of trial and error is synonymous with any new sector, and it's part of building a solid foundation.

Time builds trust

In crypto we're all pretty impatient, we realise the power of this tech, but people can only work so fast and learn from their mistakes.

As more people succeed in the space, it begins to build trust; if this thing isn't going away, there has to be something there, is what people will think. This lindy effect tends to grow exponentially with each year of survival, and as time goes by, we build new levels of trust with the public.

You can already see the type of people getting into crypto has changed over the years as well as the way people talk about it. It will continue to change as time goes by and with more trust comes more willingness to learn and invest.

Building FailSafe

So we have all this momentum on our side, but why aren't people coming in droves? Well, because what the end-user does can be almost fatal in many cases. We always talk about how the dapps and interfaces need to be more user friendly, but we never speak about user protection.

In crypto, if you are a novice user, there are 1001 ways to lose your money forever, and that is. A fear many aren't able to come to grips with, its unacceptable for most people.

Crypto needs to build in Failsafe a state that should be the default, if a user fucks up they shouldn't be punished for it, and this is the biggest issue I feel crypto needs to face in getting people to come in.

They should be allowed to fuck up knowing there's a way to protect their coins that doesn't mean jumping through hoops and reading hours of posts or looking for tutorial videos. Since we don't have superuser access like centralised projects, we need these failsafe protocols now more than ever.

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What do you good people of HIVE think?

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I think that the secret ingredient in most things in life is patience

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And practice, can’t sit around waiting for things to happen you also gotta prepare and ready yourself to make things happen

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Yes. Practice +action makes you fit for grabbing opportunities

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Well written.
I usually think how to enhance crypto with the centralized bonuses we are used to (see my latest post).
But when starting to think about implementation you realize that the permissionless public blockchain is different.
Trustless since you trust no party.
But you are willing to trust some that might build sidechains.
I guess this was the SMT dream that crashed.

I think you are on to something.
Lets say there is a service (a centralized one) that allows you to participate in Hive with your facebook account.
What do you think?

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I think the SMT would be such a game changer for real and it really disappointed a lot of people not seeing it happen, Hive ENGine you can see how people craved the service and SMT would have been easier I assume, also getting listings on exchanges etc. Wrapped tokens too, could have been done with SMT and we could have had lets say SMTEthereum users could use on HIVE and so on in their various communities.

I do think its possible to take a lot of the complexity out of it and use the chain only to store data with custom json in the blocks they way splinterlands does and keep the wallet and the account as separate entities that can be used in conjunction

We did have something a while back that proved the use case called share2steem where you could like your medium for example post on there and it syndicates on your connected steem account.

I think the chain is versatile enough to be a base for a "centralised" to run ontop of it and touch the chain only when needed

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