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0/ One of the biggest UX problems in crypto is private key mgmt
1/ In particular, this is hard to do in a trustless way while offering some sort of account recovery, and making it very easy to use the same identity across devices
2/ One approach is to figure out how to import your private keys into many deviecs
3/ Another is to store it in a central location (encrypted), and download and decrypt on demand
4/ Another still is multi party computation, which is similar to the last method, but which has much lower trust requirements
5/ However, there's another that I think is largely unexplored

Abstracting private keys on chain entirely by mapping them to an identity

With this approach, you don't need to import keys across devices at all
6/ The other nice benefit of this approach is that it aligns nicely with the WebAuthN standard, which is quickly going to become what consumers expect
7/ In general, crypto has not explored the latter path enough. The notable exception is EOS

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