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MetaMask now has over 8M users

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Re: MetaMask now has over 8M users

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Post by arcticbull »

I guess a lot of people want to spend $200 in gas fees to buy a URL to a JPEG that comes with no rights whatsoever to the image itself. What a time to be alive.

Maybe I was wrong, maybe the Fed's loose monetary policy has gone too far after all haha.

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Post by omarfarooq »

arcticbull wrote: post #4
nivertech wrote: post #3

I guess it means 8M installs. But how many are actual active users?

I used to mine ETH to heat my condo, but at some point mid way through H1 it stopped being interesting. I'd love to know if I'm being counted.

According to Joe Marini (previously Lead Developer Relations for Chrome Web store):

> The number [of weekly users] you see in the Chrome Web Store is the amount of users whose Chrome browser has checked for an update of your app within the last week. It is not the number of people who have installed your item.

Source: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-apps/c/S...

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Post by boramalper »

treelovinhippie wrote: post #5

And all the calls go through Infura which runs on AWS. Joe Lubin (former Goldman Sachs) owns ~50% of both Metamask and Infura. Centralized much?

I vouched for this comment as I believe it has a point: I think decentralised systems in general have a tendency to yield centralised hotspots for convenience and scalability reasons as networks grow, but in the case of blockchains and Ethereum in particular, running a full node (that can provide the functionality of Infura for instance) is becoming extremely infeasible.

I acknowledge that this is still much more decentralised in comparison to status quo but it is important to acknowledge also that it is still not as decentralised as it is marketed to be.

Re: MetaMask now has over 8M users

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Post by erulabs »

I did some coding on a project idea with Metamask / web3.js (https://web3js.readthedocs.io/) about a year ago - tooling was pretty rough around the edges. Distinctly remember thinking if Metamask and web3 worked brilliantly and had great documentation, they'd be on track to win eventually. How good the web3 documentation is imo is the #1 indicator of what ETH market-cap should be, same as Stripe.
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