- Scott Melker says crypto won’t achieve mainstream adoption by trying to explain dank sharding and SHA-256, and trashing other coins.
- The Wolf Of All Streets thinks that mainstream adoption of crypto is being affected by the approach taken by the community.
- Crypto leaders disparaging each other and trashing rival projects doesn’t help, he recently tweeted.
Scott Melker, a crypto investor and trader and author of the crypto publication The Wolf Den Newsletter, says the crypto community isn’t going about the push for mainstream adoption the right way.
Crypto should meet users where they are.
According to Melker, aka “The Wolf Of All Streets” on Twitter, what crypto needs to do is cut out unnecessary terminology when putting out the crypto message to the masses. He believes meeting the common user where “their wants and needs exist” could help a lot with promoting overall adoption.
“Mainstream adoption won’t come with attempting to explain dank sharding and sha-256,” he recently tweeted, noting that taking this route is impacting the desired goal. “There’s a reason people ignore us,” he added.
Jeff Garzik, one of the early Bitcoin believers, agreed with Melker’s assessment.
All plumbing is “plumbing”.
Crypto wins when the average person can use our technology, without having to understand or know esoteric terms such as hashing or sharding.
Plumbing isn’t exciting to many people. Plumbing is something that just works.
— Ser Jeff Garzik (@jgarzik) April 14, 2023
The Wolf Of All Streets believes that crypto leaders should do more.
“One of the biggest problems the crypto community has is that its leaders often talk down to the mainstream audience or speak in terminology that is over the average person’s head. We need to simplify the messaging for the masses and meet them where their wants and needs exist.”
Melker thinks that trashing other projects will not help to achieve the next level of adoption by users.
“Imagine having the opportunity to go on mainstream media and extol the virtues of bitcoin but instead railing about your hate for Ethereum or shitcoins instead,” he observed.
Many people have shared his message via Crypto Twitter. One such comment was from Jahon Jamali, the CEO of American Crypto Academy, who believes explaining “the value proposition more than the technology,” will definitely ring a bell with many people.
I’ve been saying this from day one.
– Avoid technologically intimating language;
– Explain the value proposition more than the technology;
– Scrap the condescension.
This is an entire belief system.
Preach in the vernacular of the flock you’re trying to convert.
— Jahon Jamali 😎🇺🇸 (@JahonJamali) April 13, 2023
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