The Value of a Wallet

Drink the crypto wallet Kool-aide while reading this

.... then let yourself be slapped in the face with some crypto-skeptical reading:

Web3 aside, table stakes for any successful mainstream consumer app will continue to be safety (people can't send you stuff that will allow your wallet to become an attack vector for hackers or scammers), privacy (I don't want everyone to see what I own unless I give them permission), and delightful to use. Not obvious that the benefits of decentralized ownership outweighs the current drawbacks in these areas compared to web2.


Decentralized streaming and piracy

Related to above. Audius and piracy is an interesting read on aspects of controlling for piracy, value of being built on block chain tech, and ensuring revenue flows back to artists.