It's ten years from now, and Status is perfect, what are you using it for?

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What are you using it for @noman ?

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For work: Co-ordinating with other members of DAOs as well as interacting with DAOs.
For fun: Gambling/betting with friends and randoms.
For cash flow: Conducting large OTC trades.
For news: Accessing new feeds which use token economics to incentivise a high quality standard.
For social: Chatting in groups which have a high contribution standard due to crypto-economic incentives, no more free-riders not contributing to the chat!
For meetups - Staking tokens to ensure people meet up! High reliability that people will show up.

The future use I see is a seamless integration between human communication/co-ordination and decentralised technologies. I think Status does this by mixing the communication features with ethereum services.

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My morning delivery drone arrives, and as it drops off my morning breakfast I confirm payment via Status.
I probably rent a bike or get the train to meet some friends, paying via NFC on my phone.
I message a group of friends about dinner, and book the restaurant using Kickback.
I read the news (using some form of attention token).

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Can’t you do all of this with WeChat/Facebook messenger? How does status make it better?

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Nope, not in the UK at least, and not using crypto for payments or Kickback for bookings (admittedly you can’t do that using Kickback today, but I hope they’ll move in that direction).

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To me, the perfect decentralized messenger has intrinsic limitations and unlikely to compete with centralized solutions. Hence, I would use Status in the following cases:

  • I’m in a country with an autocratic government that shuts down instant messengers and social platforms
  • I need to communicate any sensitive information with my closest/trusted friends
  • I need to talk to a person who is paranoid about privacy with or without real reason (it might include “everyone on this planet” at some point, why not)
  • In case of massive internet hack/crash, which renders all popular centralized solutions dead

I assume that I can give up on some extra usability expected from traditional messengers if Status will work in those cases.

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Hopefully as a complete and integrated environment for communication and interaction with necessary and usable applications to explore, think and live. I think the shift to web 3 applications will be gradually more and more necessary.

If decentralized applications and money in that case become a part of the future in how we interact; status has a really good shot at being my go-to medium. Things can progress and change so much in that big of a timeframe though; maybe status doesn’t exist as an “application” even then but is fully ingrained into the OS of whatever the hardware of the future I use on a daily basis is.