I think this article portrays what I think is crypto’s biggest problem - the developers are all focusing on /trivial/ matters like preventing double-spend and ensuring economic finality.<p>And then, every time a hack happens they blame it on the users - “the blockchain wasn’t compromised”. Sure, but users don’t care about that technicality.<p>Crypto needs better UI/UX and real-world mainstream usecases, not better consensus algorithms.<p>I don’t think Vitalik et all understand this, outside of the small criticisms they’re willing to bring up to deflect crypto-skeptics.<p>Eg, POW’s environmental damage is mentioned once in this blog, as a positive that enabled ETH’s “accessibility”. This is a joke right? You can barely mine any ETH even on an rtx3090. Obviously, mining pools/farms and the resulting global GPU shortages are accessible.