Jason Robins: The crypto industry needs to become more centralized – Bits Media

The CEO of the sports betting service DraftKing is confident, that without an element of centralization, blockchain and cryptocurrencies will not become a mass product.

Jason Robins (Jason Robins) gives his opinion on the industry on Decrypt's new Gm podcast. Businessman expressed a popular opinion, that the current state of the cryptocurrency industry is very similar to the early Internet, which was filled with assorted scammers, and also had a very poor and complex interface, запутывающий неискушенных в технологиях пользователей.

According to the businessman, криптоиндустрия должна быть более доступна для широких масс, и достигнуть этого можно за счет «небольшой централизации». Robins thinks, that centralization gives a certain level of control, which can help protect people from themselves and prevent them from running into some scammer:

«Найдется много людей, которые придут в ужас, if they find out, that one small mistake in the recipient's address can lead to, that their NFT for $10,000 will go to another user or will be completely burned without the possibility of return. There is no intermediary in such transactions, which could stop the user and make sure, that he is protected from such misunderstandings".

Robins stressed, what he knows about the main principles of the industry, and about that, that there are a lot of people, deeply committed to the ideals of decentralization. but, In his opinion, some element of centralization, which would make blockchain more understandable and down-to-earth for ordinary users, necessary.

At the beginning of the year, the cybersecurity agency Certik published the results of a study of hacker attacks on decentralized finance protocols (DeFi) for 2021 year. According to the study, in 16.5% Vulnerabilities helped hackers steal money, associated with elements of centralization.