# @cassie: Farcaster should be free to join without forcing crypto onboarding

Source: https://farcaster.xyz/cassie/0x45af8ef5

## Summary

Cassie argues that Farcaster should be free to join without an onboarding process that forces users to engage with crypto directly. The post compares crypto to databases, queues, caches, and logging infrastructure, calling it a technology that should be an implementation detail rather than the focus. It contends that the industry has been fixated on the technology itself when the more important question is what it enables.

## Article

We think Farcaster should be free to join, without the excessive onboarding process that forces people to use crypto directly in order to even participate. Crypto is a technology, no different than databases, queues, caches, or logging infrastructure. Weirdly, this industry has had a strange fetish for making that technology the focus rather than an implementation detail. The detail is important, but less about the how, and more about what it enables.