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Re:That which does not kill Bitcoin makes Bitcoin stronger by paulbaumgart on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @04:57PM (#7308295)
That's an interesting point. I suspect the main reason people aren't using those capabilities of Bitcoin more frequently is that no one has spent the time to make the UX good.

Unfortunately, that's also basically true of every consumer-oriented open source project ever. I'm not sure why it's the case, but it does seem that good UX requires a profit motive.

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Re:That which does not kill Bitcoin makes Bitcoin stronger by nullc on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @05:03PM (#7308356)
You can't really solve it with "UX" as a blanket thing.

To build trustless service you must design cryptographic protocols that use the bitcoin "script" expression language— it's form of programming. Don't hold your breath for a good UI there. :)

Once you've done that, you can slap a nice UI on it to make it available to mortals. An example: https://bitrated.com/

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