It's Showtime for Web3 wunderkind Miguel Piedrafita 💥 The TILT #22
We chat to the epic 19-year-old engineer + web3 maker and shaker about all things Web3 + GenZ
In Ep 26 of the podcast we dive into discussion with Web3 Wunderkind Miguel Piedrafita. Miguel taught himself to code at the age of 10 and now at 19, Miguel is working as a founding engineer at Showtime to build the best crypto social network.
We discover why Miguel ditched University to pursue building in the web3 space, why he's so jazzed about web3 + the next frontier of social networks, how he's found his community in the space and mucho más!
Read a snippet of our conversation below ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Miguel is a relentless builder in both web2 and web3, and has so many side projects it's hard to keep up. He loves helping onboard mainstream folks to the world of web3, and at the end of the day, ultimately wants to work and hang out with people he loves.
Our conversation with Miguel is super joyful and traverses the topics of:
His journey into web3 as an engineer
Online communities + the Tech Optimists/Cabbage Crew 🥬
Gen Zs in tech📱
Onboarding newbies to web3
The $MIGUEL token + exploring the potential of creator tokens
Digital art + NFTs 🖼
Podcast 🎙 Snack 🍏
ST: What do you think the biggest challenges are for newbies to onboard into the crypto space/ what UX UI branding challenges do you see as the biggest?
MP: I mean, I feel it's not like an issue of branding because like Rainbow or Foundation and all these new platforms are doing a great job of actually making stuff user-friendly.
I think it's more of an issue of, you actually have a few concepts that you need to understand before (onboarding), or you're probably going to screw up at some point and have something that can't be reversible.
I think the thing about Web3 is that it's not just (about) what it enables. Part of the importance of Web3 is knowing how it works. And so even if we have new generation tools that went mainstream that use Web3, I don't think we are done until people understand what is Web3 and why it's important that these apps are using it.
And so I think like the main blocker right now is the user experience. Part of crypto was awful. Now it's better. I would even say great for some sites. We need to work on explaining this and explaining this in a sense that someone who's using TikTok and Instagram, and only uses their computer to write essays for school on Word and to play video games, can understand why this is important and how this works.
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