Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
I guess I started an accidental AMA on which parts of the crypto space are good and which I'm so far not excited about, along with other big picture vision questions: https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1827583576751181961 You should feel free to ask questions here too! Let's see if Farcaster can come up with higher-quality questions than the other app :)
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
My main worry is when they start entrenching network effects that become hard to undo. For example, if we start normalizing "sign in to this crypto social thing with Google", I think that's really bad, UNLESS it's done in an account-abstraction way where under the hood it's using zk-email and individual users can sign in with their ethereum account instead (and convert their account from one to the other). This way, it's not entrenching network effects of centralized web2 platforms, it's actually creating a bridge that lets users join the ecosystem with them, but then more easily migrate away from them.
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casslin.eth
@casslineth
how mature is zkemail atm, is it easy to integrate in existing products? i wonder many new products this cycle using sign in w/ email coz the set up of @privy & similar service providers, which aim to lower the barrier to entry for normal users. how should we strike the balance here. ps. i agree in principle we should not normalizing sign in w/ google/web2 email, or even worse, phone number, on crypto products. Would like to see how this works out in execution.
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Wilson Cusack
@wilsoncusack
Even with ZK-email I worry about giving Google or whoever custody of the signing key, re DKIM.
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conca 🎩💻 | @gif dev
@0xconca.eth
I 100% agree, i *never* put social logins into my dapps… we need to educate people to web3, not finding compromises that bring products one step backwards, such as being dependent to emails again
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gabedev🎩
@gabedev.eth
@vitalik.eth , following your thoughts on the risks of entrenched network effects What criteria do you think should be used to evaluate when it's beneficial to introduce centralized elements in a decentralized ecosystem, especially if those elements might later be hard to replace or remove?
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