What is gatekeeping?Someone asks a simple question, say, "What are private keys?", "What is an mnemonic phrase?", "What is the lightning network?" or "What is segwit?"The "Gate-keeper" usually responds with something snark or less than welcoming to the person who asks the question, possibly following it up with, "You probably shouldn't be in crypto if you don't know what that is." or "How does someone with 2000 USD of crypto not know what this is?"I hate to say it guys, but every time we make remarks like this to newcomers and novices, we are arguably pushing back the goalpost for mass-adoption.EDIT: To add to this I would like to also inform you all that I had a coworker at a centralised exchange who legitimately believed that the US dollar was backed by gold until myself and some coworkers corrected him. He was a software programmer. And finally, if you asked most people in your country about what the fabric composition of fiat currency being used is, most people couldn't answer you. If you ask them any other perfectly innocuous questions about the currency in their hands then they likely couldn't answer you either.EDIT 2: Another step to mass-adoption is making cryptocurrency normy-friendly. I see this happening sooner or later, so we may not have these kinds of "noobie questions" or issues in the future.
Submitted November 16, 2020 at 09:23AM
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