Is crypto everywhere already? It is starting to go mainstream. 12 years ago it used to be just a small group of people. Now it is all over the internet. Some people might know it is just a place to invest but really don't know what it is about. And it is actually a clear sign that crypto is firmly in the mainstream of the finance industry and it’s not going away anytime soon.
Crypto then and now
You could somehow compare it to Social Networks. Myspace is an old thing that people used back then in the 90s. I've heard about it but I didn't use it. It worked, but it had limited functions. I was still too young. Also back then the internet was limited. It was hard to get online. It was also hella expensive and slow. Then when the internet was starting to get popular, other sites were born. Yes, for example facebook. People around the world started to use it for chatting, posting pictures and even playing games. this is when social networks went mainstream.
From Myspace to Facebook
What I want to tell you now here is, we crypto gang are now actually kind of in the myspace era. People are now hearing about crypto but not all of them are actually jumping in. They know it is a place to invest money and yeah also NFT. Some of these celebrities have been buying it. I wrote about it already if you want to read it click here. It is all about the hype. This is actually a good and easy way to these celebrities show people about the crypto industry. But it is still slow. And complicated. And expensive at times.
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We are heading to the moon
So what i am saying is, we ain't there yet. We are not yet mainstream. But we are heading there. People might hear or know about it but they still don't know how it works. Some of them are users, some of them are still not sure to be part of the gang, some of them know 0 shit about it. It is all about the process. An example of a real step is, El Salvador is the first country that legalized bitcoin as a legal tender. People now can do transactions with bitcoin in El Salvador. My darling Mr.Bukele made it.But most people have no idea how this shit actually works. It is just like internet in the late 90s.
So how do we know crypto is mainstream? Well, facebook and broadband internet changed the game, and it had a billion users within a few years. Getting online and connect with others got super easy. For that moment we are still waiting in crypto. But it may come very soon.
Crypto as legal tender
Imagine more countries started to use cryptocurrencies as legal tender? The effect is that more people would buy cryptocurrencies and use it. The price should automatically go up. That would help crypto a lot going mainstream. But this could take years or so, as most people will need to learn about it, and the usability needs to improve.
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As I said we ain't there yet but we absolutely are heading there. This is what I'm talking about when the signs of crypto become mainstream. With Mainstream I don’t mean in a bad way. There are positive possibilities about it. I also want to get my barbie pink lambo. Trust the process baby.
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I get your point and its true that we are in the very early stages of what crypto will be and how universal it will become but your history on myspace/facebook is way off.
Facebook and Myspace launched about 6 months apart from each other in 2003 and 2004. Not in the 90's. By 2004, in the US at least, it was not hard or expensive to get online anymore and it hadn't been in about 7 years. By 1997 most internet service providers like AOL had some form of a $20 per month unlimited access plan.
Myspace targeted bands while facebook targeted colleges. For a few years you couldn't even have a facebook account unless you were in certain colleges. Myspace had way more functionality than facebook and was a lot more fun. They almost put facebook out of business pretty early on. What brought myspace down and saved facebook was that the code myspace was built on wouldn't scale anymore because they never expected to get that big when they built the site over a weekend and they gave users a ton of control over customization which put more strain on the code.
Myspace was sold to rupert murdoch at its peak when social media was really breaking into the mainstream and Myspace was destroying facebook. But Myspace needed to put some resources into updating the code and their new owners weren't interested in spending more money on it so the site got glitchy and people begrudgingly went to facebook to keep getting their social media dopamine hit. Myspace never recovered.
I remember moving to facebook and hating it because you couldn't do anything on it. On myspace I had photo albums and a music playlist on my page and there were thousands of widgets and ways to personalize your page. Community owned market places popped up where people deisgned and sold/gave away templates and games you could put on your page to make it look and function however you wanted. Half the fun of it was constantly changing your page but it also had all the features of a social network you'd expect. You could message people, look at their pictures, read their updates, write blog posts, and see who they were friends with.
On facebook you could have one profile picture, there were no photo albums, you couldn't customize anything. You had to use your real name. They didn't have the timeline yet so there was no central place where all the information went and you could scroll through. You could just message people from their page and look at their one photo. But whereas all the customization myspace allowed people to do was ultimately too much for the code to take, Facebook kept everything under tight control and their code kept working because of it.
The story of the internet coming into a new age where crappy sites like myspace gave way to new sites like facebook just isn't true.
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I remember it took a while for facebook to take over... roughly 3 years.... the question is: what is the facebook of crypto? Ethereum? nope, not usable for the masses.... definitely one of the new L1 platforms will do this... or something no one is expecting... NFT related???