Ryan Sean Adams

And he said, it's never going to work, never could have worked.

But instead, you have to give people tools that work for them the way they currently are without changing them.

And he said something to the effect that if you have fewer than 100 million users, then you're not affecting the world.

It doesn't matter.

What you're doing is a waste of time.

So your question was, what are we neglecting in crypto?

And I would say I think we're recapitulating Moxie's interpretation of the Cypherpunks project.

And the Linux activists, Linux project, because it was the same thing.

They're going to make an operating system that does everything really well for them and preserves their freedom and their privacy and their ability to choose for themselves and so on.

And then they're going to teach everyone else in the world how to use Linux.

I tried.

I was part of that movement a long time ago.

Both of those movements.

So I think crypto is in a pretty similar space currently in terms of, and what I mainly think of it, following Moxie again, is it's all about UX.

It's all about onboarding and cognitive load to use it.

Like how many new things do you need to learn to use it and to make it do what you want it to do?

And if that is like zero, that's good UX.

Yeah, let me tell another story from someone else that I admire.

It was Brian Armstrong.

This was several years ago during a time when Zcash was like down only technology, number go down.