Ryan Sean Adams
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And then I literally got to watch TV that night without exposing myself to hackers who were looking to fucking kidnap me.
It's awesome.
It's awesome.
Totally works.
And it works with anybody who accepts any cryptocurrency, even if they're all Bitcoin maxis or Ethereum only, or you can't figure out which L2 it's on or whatever.
No, that's your problem.
You just scan the QR code.
You get to watch TV.
So UX, UX first is working.
And that's the subtle nuance.
Interesting distinction is,
between that and something that you kind of said earlier, Ryan, which was you said something, I don't want to put words in your mouth, but a lot of people out there think of something which is totally wrong technically, which is I've got my value at rest over here where potentially bad guys like my enemies or
advertisers or the IRS or somebody might be able to watch this money, this pile of money.
And I want to have my money over here, like, I don't know, pay ProtonMail or something.
And so now I need a process or a service or technology to break the link in the middle.
That's like a very common link.
99% of people
This is the paradigm that they assume is the only possible paradigm for privacy.
Now, it can never, never work for a simple reason that I can explain.
The IRS or the AIs or the North Korean hackers who are watching this pile over here