Berniske: Decentralized services require lower costs or unique functionality to win adoption
Chris Berniske · a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks as Emerging Economies (Done Right?) · Feb 26, 2019 · at 4:04
Chris Berniske, partner at Placeholder, discusses the economic requirements for consumer adoption of web3 protocols on the a16z Podcast.
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“And the only way that that ends up being a service that the end user uses is either if it's cheaper than existing services that you can get from the centralized model, but on par in terms of user experience, or it's a fundamentally new experience or service, and this is the only place I can get it.”
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