Funding, Features & Community are what bring people to crypto.
Funding:
- Get paid for a digital interaction you wouldn’t in Web2
- Alternative, global investment opportunities (stake, trade, earn)
- Pay for goods & services in stablecoins when you’re local currency is volatile
Features:
- Do something online, but in a faster, cheaper, easier or enhanced way
- Own an account across platforms & services
- Own digital creations (art, music, video, docs)
- Earn for hosting & running physical infrastructure (WiFi, servers, dashcams, nodes)
- Earn more on loyalty/reward programs, avoiding third party fees
- Pay people directly for goods & services, avoiding third party fees
- Cryptographically prove original attribution of digital creation
Community:
- Connect, create and exchange value, insights quickly with global developers
- Fund people, projects & interests in niche, like-minded communities
- Interact with people outside of your geographic location
Anything else is just speculation.
Kudos to Brandon Turp, Harry Alford, Josh Itzkovitz, Isaac Lazoff, Daniel Killeen, Mac Douglas & Anoop Kansupada for helping concretize my thoughts here the past couple of days.
Like these a lot! One thing I also notice about crypto (for better or worse) is the convergence of consumption and development. Crypto is like MInecraft where those lines are often blurred, which goes back to community.