I spent 4 years building in the NFT art space. Made good friends, met a lot of grifters, and made maybe a small % of my annual salary.

I spent 6 months building in the AI space. Made good friends, met a lot of grifters, got promoted, and then landed a job with double salary & equity.

I still think crypto has a culture problem, not a use case problem.

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People are always going to accentuate their shitty side when money is involved.  Crypto with the casino side of things is no different, If not a bit worse.

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sure, but that was related to the barrier to entry, those that flocked came in spite of that barrier, because they were just that motivated to gamble.

(and of course a smaller contingent of decentralized maxis)

My take is a bit different on this. This implies people haven't adopted crypto, but they did, dozens of millions flocked to crypto in the past. The "gated access" wasn't a problem, it was the "alpha" if anything. UX issues are there because of the feedback loop between 1) the kind of people who flocked to crypto to use and 2) the kind of people who earn their living in crypto.

Optimize for speculation & grift 🔄 More speculators & grifters come.

It's hard to break that cultural mold.

the issue is that crypto still hasn’t got past the ux issues. it needs to be seamless so that the user knows nothing about it. we will get there, just not there yet.

AI doesn’t have these problems. The uses maybe beyond some folks imaginations but the ui/ux is familiar.

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Lol I hadn't heard this take but it's actually true lol

AI replacing us would be a culture improvement at this point, maybe crypto will then truly happen 😏

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This is 100% true. In my case I haven't been doing AI art necessarily. Pure utility 😊

AI x Art is a lot easier than Crypto x Art 

Ai offers utility , and puts no constraints on the art , while crypto does the opposite

then there is art of course but that’s also very financialized and niche

sure a better payment system is nice to have but that is just an implementation detail

AI is product and consumer centric, whereas crypto is for the most part financial and speculation centric without much substance

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Yes and it’s the culture of greed and cult like behavior that’s the issue.

It’s people that embrace the worst people on the right too like that dumbass @threadguy interviewing Andrew Tate and his sleazy friend @farokh who interviewed Trump and promoted his shitcoin. What a joke.