(short thread)
Being a pioneer isn't always fun!
Those growing pains currently manifest in high gas prices, unintuitive UI/UX, poor scaling, lots of jargon, unknown upgrade timelines and many other things.
If you take this (very generous) estimation of how many "users" Ethereum-based DeFi apps currently have, you'll get ~174,000.
There are literally 14 year old's on TikTok that have more followers than that.
Source of image: explore.duneanalytics.com/dashboard/defi…
This is okay.
Apps come first, then the infrastructure (read below for more color on this).
usv.com/writing/2018/1…
The more pioneers we add, the healthier the ecosystem becomes.
There are smart people working on scaling solutions every day with some already live (@loopringorg & @synthetix_io demo).
For example, @argentHQ just launched v1 of their mobile wallet app that aims to abstract away as much of the "Ethereum stuff" as possible.
We *will* solve these problems.
Come back in a few years when we've built out the mega-city that is Ethereum - though you'll have missed out on all the fun of the journey to get there :)
Well then...
It's time to build (on Ethereum)!