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>I was fighting human nature and losing.
>Everyone swears they will eat right and exercise, but most don’t. Everyone agrees they need to spend less to be financially secure later, but most won’t. Our users were telling us they would use ContractBeast to achieve those long-term benefits, but most weren’t.
>When I looked at the contracts the users were creating, I found most of them were ones in which a particular feature provided a clear and immediate benefit. Usually involving contract review and approval.
>Human nature sucks.
He did it the opposit. He blamed his product for going against human nature.This is misquoting him.
In other words, the is–ought problem as viewed by David Hume.
Computers themselves were impossibly unfriendly for so long. What if someone created a UX friendly cryptocurrency. Like any computer, deep down it could be insanely complex, but is it a requirement that the UX reflect that complexity?
The thing is user friendly UX usually creates user friendliness by removing the user's ability to control the product. For example, macOS vs BSD. The GUI makes it much more user friendly, but at the cost of limiting the user a bit more. Then again, perhaps there are exceptions.
Well not really. the parent I replied to specifically qualified it as users holding their own wallets. I agree that is a critical component. Exchanges are a bit of a farce from the perspective of "not your wallet, not your coins".
Like you say, exchanges that abstract this too much, for their benefit not yours, are probably distorting the original intent of a cryptocurrency. macOS doesn't have to hide all the knobs; they could have an advanced interface, which they do for some things. Why can't there be a wallet hardware/software that does the same? Is there something inherent that prevents this, making it "impossible"? Or is there just no business model around it, that can overcome the gravity of the kind of exchanges we have today.
For example, are wallet addresses inherently unmanageable?
"My theory would be perfect if only I could convince humans to stop acting like humans," is the original sin of bad economics.
I would submit that it is approximately impossible to have a cryptocurrency that is simultaneously popularly successful, and has even a significant minority of its users owning their own wallets. Because only a fraction of a percent of the general public has both the skill and the inclination to do something like that.