On Bitcoin’s UX
September 20, 2020
This article by Gigi was published on swanbitcoin.com website.
Why the internet doesn’t feel as clumsy anymore is twofold: (1) we got used to the novel concepts the internet brought with it, and (2) countless layers of abstraction make interacting with the base layer easier.
There is an ongoing discussion in the Bitcoin space revolving around the topic of user experience, or UX for short. Bitcoin still feels weird, clunky, and complicated at times. The main reason for this is that Bitcoin and its parts (the network, the protocol, the cryptography, the scripting language) are indeed weird, clunky, and complicated. Just like the internet was and arguably, still is.
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