Mark Mason
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How Ease of Use Affects Decentralization and Privacy
Cryptocurrency isn’t easy to use. Everyone knows it, but few grasp how important this is.
A quick illustration of this from Dash, which is one of the easier coins to use. I was attempting to move fund from my full node wallet (the only way of trustlessly using PrivateSend at the moment) to my mobile wallet. The full node wallet doesn’t have a method of scanning QR codes, so the only way to get funds onto the mobile wallet was to somehow copy the address and get it from the phone to the computer. The easiest way, unfortunately is to send yourself an email from your phone with the address, copy that address into the Core wallet, and send. My instant takeaway on the experience of moving funds from the Core wallet: “No one’s going to use this.” That’s a problem.
Read more: https://www.dashforcenews.com/ease-use-affects-decentralization-privacy/