I don't mean to barge in on your conversation, but I think that all you have just proven is that even in the relatively tech-savvy crypto crowd you're in the extreme minority as far as experience is concerned. Which doesn't make you look like the best person to talk to about onboarding new users. Very very few will have your willingness to invest time into understanding obscure tech concepts. And the ones that do won't need any onboarding or outreach efforts, they'll figure things out by themselves
What I'm saying is that I have deep perspective. Laziness and stupidity are the true oppressors, and every individual harbors it within themselves.
Caterting to it, feeding it... That defeats the very purpose of a project meant to deliver freedom.
It's like throwing a concrete life preserver to a drowning man...
"The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, f
rom apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage."
All 1st world societies are currently in the bolded portion of that quote. Worse, the world has shrunk, the borders between those societies has blurred. Information age, social media, whatever you'd like to call it. It's synchronized. We don't get to look across a border and see something different, find truth, etc. We're going down altogether, all at once, and there won't be anyone left to hold out a hand to pull us up again. We pull it out of the fire this time around, or it's done. Huxley and Orwell were both wrong because they were both right. It's not one or the other, it's both at the same time. The Huxlian begets the Orwellian. The Yin and Yang of despotism. The hangman's gradual process has been negated by hanging everyone at the same time.
How can cryptocurrency free us from the bondage of evil guv, if we help shut-down the brains of those carrying the burden? How will they understand their prison and how they got there?
"We do the thinking so you don't have to."
I don't say we all need to become expert programmers. I'm certainly not one myself. But you've got to learn at least enough to realize that so much of today's convenience comes at the expensive of disposing of your basic human rights. Being so ignorant that you don't even know it's happening results in never fighting back. Why keep something you didn't even know you had, didn't even know you lost? None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who have false freedom pulled over their eyes. Being force-fed the blue pill without even knowing there was a red pill.
This is at the very root of why DASH is getting the cold shoulder. Most people, especially cryptotards, have no idea what they've lost. They grew up in the cloud. They don't know what their brokencoin doesn't actually do that they falsely believe it does.
It's counter-intuitive to believe that people who see no reason for this project to exist will adopt it. Fostering their lack of understanding will help how? They already don't see a reason. Helping them stay ignorant, ignorance being the cause, will improve that? The cause of the problem is not the solution to it...
Shooting yourself in the foot is not a toggle button... Doing it twice doesn't undo the first shot... It's just two bullets in your foot instead of one.
Barriers to entry, as long as they're not external, are a good thing. If you don't have to be more than a damn, dirty ape, because everything is handed to you, you never evolve or improve yourself. No need. No reason to develop functions beyond grunt and thrust... The facilities that suit that mentality already exist. Fiat and Brokencoin are just fine for them. Cats watching football. It's boring to them because its so far beyond them they don't understand it.
You have to hook them, yes. You have to come down to their level. But, you have to drag them up. Help better your fellow man in some way. If you cater to ignorance, you may as well throw them in prison yourself. Making it so user friendly that they don't have to learn anything makes you into the oppressor yourself.
I see that step missing. This project doesn't seek to leave people better than it found them.
I'm probably not the guy. You're right. All I've ever gotten from humanity is savage brutality. I was forged in pain and barbarism. It's how a learned because that's all there ever was. I tend to take the "tough love" approach to teaching. The entitled brats of today choose to "be offended" by that instead of step up. I'm not the guy for showing them the way, but I know they need it and I know it's missing.