[English] The one thing required for blockchain ~ Overcome the Curse of Knowledge!

I want to master this... After explaining roughly how it works, most of my friends (who mostly check the internet on their smartphones, occasionally) end up thinking, “I don’t really get it, but it sounds amazing,” and it always ends there. To avoid killing the conversation, I switch the topic to “making money through investing” (laughs).

Then their interest suddenly spikes... In short, I make them intuitively understand what it is, and fill their minds with topics on that side before I can spark their interest in the direction I want. I don’t think this is inherently wrong, but something about it never sits right with me…

I think there are still many parts I don’t fully understand myself. Or perhaps I’m simply not good at explaining. Among the two kinds of people at the end of the sentence, I am the person who “gets involved with blockchain for the simple pleasure,” and since my main purpose was trading or investing, I feel there might not be a need to know it deeply, but…

Well then, let’s read the translation of that English article now.

One Thing Blockchain Needs – Overcome the Curse of Knowledge

“So, what exactly is blockchain?”

Everyone has heard this question. Perhaps your aunt asked you at last year’s family Christmas gathering, or a friend asked while you were drinking coffee. Perhaps the person asking could be a future customer. In short, this question has been asked many times. How should one answer it?

If you Google it, you’ll find phrases that summarize the answers from technologists. “It’s a digital ledger, in which transactions made with Bitcoin or other currencies are publicly recorded in chronological order.” But I think your aunt would stumble around the phrase “digital ledger.”

What blockchain needs is a person who can explain it well

When people ask “What is blockchain?” there are very few blockchain proponents who understand what they want to know. We interpret such questions as “tell me how blockchain works,” but in reality they are asking “why should we pay attention to blockchain.”