Polkadot Messaging/Positioning/Narrative Thoughts

[rich]

I wrote The state of DotSama 9 months ago.

Everyone is still stuck having the same conversations, desperately attempting to make Polkadot a better Ethereum.

@rich

Although it makes intuitive sense to begin education where people already are, it is also a huge mistake to think that this does much more than reinforce the cultural cache of the established market leader rather than carving out a new cultural reality created by the ecosystem’s assembled talent, technology and financial firepower.

@rich

can Polkadot be a better Ethereum? No. Ethereum will always be the best Ethereum. Just as Ethereum is not a better Bitcoin, it’s like arguing that a shark is better than a tiger.

@rich

In its current form, Polkadot is not yet definitively the best at anything - certainly not if we are to define ‘best’ as being the focal point of of a global cultural movement in the way that first Bitcoin and then Ethereum have done, irrespective of their own challenges.

However there is reason for hope - the ability for that departure is there when we consider that Polkadot is not just the biggest bet yet on a multi-chain world, it is also concretely a bet on the governance, coordination and decision making of sovereign on-chain collectives, in a way that neither Bitcoin or Ethereum are or are ever capable of.

DotSama’s narrative will be made famous by collectives.

That is where culture and impact and awareness wlll come.