Big ideas, small use cases: Crypto’s execution gap
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“Ideas are easy. Execution is everything.”
― John Doerr
Nobody does big ideas better than crypto: internet-native money, self-sovereignty, democratized finance…
Execution, however, has never been its strong suit.
Internet-native money is crypto’s foundational idea, but 15 years on, few use it to pay for anything on the internet.
The democratization of finance has largely become people getting fleeced in the memecoin casino.
Self-sovereignty remains a core principle, but most people have stored their crypto on centralized exchanges, and now, increasingly, with the evil empire itself (i.e., the stock…
