I was discussing Hive's usability with another user I follow a few days ago. He discussed onboarding someone and took the time to show them around the most difficult aspect of the chain: key storage. I believe this is difficult because once they are lost, they are permanently lost, and the account is no longer accessible.
Unlike in web2, you can easily click "forget password" and reset it via email or phone number. On the surface, this appears to be very rigid and lacks sophistication. A person may believe that because web3 is an advancement of web2, they can lose anything and recover it any way they want.
In the case of Hive, it is more about security than crudeness.
How?
If a person's account is easily retrievable, hackers will target the accounts of people like theycallmedan in order to gain access to them and steal their funds.
On web2, for example, people are hacking into the accounts of people with IP addresses in Serbia and Russia, and these web2 accounts have no monetary value. In reality, we cannot make compromises. Blockchain technology has not advanced to the point where it is easy to access and recover accounts while making it difficult for a potential hacker to do so.
There are no fingerprint logins or face unlocks for web3 accounts; while this technology is theoretically possible, it is not currently feasible. We cannot have both simplicity and crudeness in the same technology; it must be either difficult to access but not prone to hacking, or easy to access and simple to hack. There is no way to compromise security because, in the end, we will always prefer to be safe than sorry.
Personally, I keep my keys stored and written down somewhere because I do not trust my devices enough to believe they will save my keys, which is why I took precautions.
Was it uncomfortable to do so? Yes. Do I regret it? No.
I believe it is critical to understand that web2 cannot be web3. We can only try so hard to replicate web2's simplicity and accessibility, but web3 technology is designed to be sophisticated and complex, and cannot be any simpler.
The user I was speaking with suggested that web3 may require its own population rather than the population from web2, but I quickly responded that while he may be correct, there are potential web2ers who would make excellent web3 population if they were actually onboarded.
I believe that the majority of web3 users did not start out as savvy. Most of us underwent extensive remodeling, which is how we learned how it works. I do not believe web3 is designed to have its own population; rather, it is intended to migrate individuals from web2.
In Conclusion
Unfortunately we cannot onboard everyone, as truly not everyone will be determined enough to do it. However, while we have done an excellent job in terms of usability and accessibility, we are unable to compromise on the issue of keys.
We have different keys on Hive for accessibility, and the owner key is actually the most important key. I know you may be thinking "But why can not we just have one key for everything?" However, the issue of security will suffice once again. We cannot overemphasize the importance of privacy, security, and ownership.
These are some of the key components of web3. It is true that the average web2 user is not particularly interested in all of this, but I believe it is only a matter of time.
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