All terms
Someone outside crypto, used affectionately more often than not.
Normie describes people who have not adopted crypto. It shows up in phrases like normie adoption, meaning the moment the technology reaches ordinary users.
Every serious project is trying to attract normies, because that is where the next hundred million users are.
Good design for normies means hiding seed phrases, gas and chain switching behind something that just works.
That normie marks an outsider who does not understand. Most of the world is outside crypto and manages perfectly well, and the word is used as often by people who arrived last month as by anyone else. It is mostly a way of signaling that you are inside.
Common questions
Is normie an insult?
Why does the word exist?
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