I don't understand why everything has to be a "solution" for something. True innovations don't bring solutions to old problems, they just change the paradigm.
Cars didn't solve the transportation problem. Horses still worked fine. What problem did the internet solve specifically? We think of the infinite amount of possibilities it created (along with new problems) not the problems it solved (most of those would be irrelevant today anyways).
I think trying to apply the standard startup pitch (problem -> solution) to everything in life is a terribly reductive perspective.
There's just so much that can be done with blockchain: financing new ventures, generating a financial incentives for sharing behaviors (whether files, computing powers or potentially tangible assets), transferring funds...
Yes you can frame all of those as "solutions" to problems, but I think that's still missing the points. Most of my net worth is in crypto assets, I use it to store value, invest, buy goods, send money to friends, etc... Give it a couple more years, and I'll probably close my bank accounts. It doesn't "solve" any problems for me, it just provides a more convenient service than traditional banking and more opportunities than traditional ways of investing. I'm assuming a lot of people see it that way too and that more will come to see it that way.
Just wondering how crypto has given you a more convenient service than traditional banking? I've become a fan of crypto the last couple years but even I have to admit that a lot of the UX is frequently a pain in the ass and how hard it is to explain these ideas to non-tech people
Cars didn't solve the transportation problem. Horses still worked fine. What problem did the internet solve specifically? We think of the infinite amount of possibilities it created (along with new problems) not the problems it solved (most of those would be irrelevant today anyways).
I think trying to apply the standard startup pitch (problem -> solution) to everything in life is a terribly reductive perspective.
There's just so much that can be done with blockchain: financing new ventures, generating a financial incentives for sharing behaviors (whether files, computing powers or potentially tangible assets), transferring funds... Yes you can frame all of those as "solutions" to problems, but I think that's still missing the points. Most of my net worth is in crypto assets, I use it to store value, invest, buy goods, send money to friends, etc... Give it a couple more years, and I'll probably close my bank accounts. It doesn't "solve" any problems for me, it just provides a more convenient service than traditional banking and more opportunities than traditional ways of investing. I'm assuming a lot of people see it that way too and that more will come to see it that way.