Crypto onboarding loses 95% of would-be Akash users
Akash Network - The Decentralized Compute Marketplace (The Crypto Conversation (Brave New Coin))
“Traditional Web2 developers, AI developers that don’t interact with crypto are forced to buy crypto… we lose 95% of the users in that very step of getting AKT tokens. And thanks to the United States, zero regulation or lack of clarity with regulation, you cannot sell legally the tokens using a credit card on your website.” — 00:27:22
Context: Justifying the upcoming “trial wallets” feature (spans into the 00:28:02 block), which he says will “open up 99% of the users that we were closed to before” without sacrificing decentralization.