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Seeking alternative compression. Hopefully wrong on average. Shameless. Started @getcognito and @bloom

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    1. John Backus‏ @backus Aug 14

      Tried out tweeting some more controversial crypto opinions tonight. Kinda fun, have about 30 disagreements I haven't responded to yet. Maybe I'll try criticizing Bitcoin tomorrow

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      John Backus‏ @backus Aug 14

      Ok most of the hate came after I went to sleep. Much closer to what I expected lol

      1:55 PM - 14 Aug 2018
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        2. Sar Haribhakti‏ @sarthakgh Aug 14
          Replying to @backus

          pls john, we are all salty snowflakes around here

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        3. John Backus‏ @backus Aug 14
          Replying to @sarthakgh

          Haha, it was actually nice to see a handful of people who consistently like my other crypto tweets actually clearly disagree with some of yesterday’s tweets. Conditional love

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        4. Sar Haribhakti‏ @sarthakgh Aug 14
          Replying to @backus

          Sar Haribhakti Retweeted Sar Haribhakti

          Yeah better to not poke the bears I see your point about drawing parallels b/w crypto & startups. Key to remember where the analogy breaks. https://twitter.com/sarthakgh/status/1025538874775228416 … https://twitter.com/sarthakgh/status/1027701457351454720 … https://www.tokendaily.co/blog/building-companies-in-web-2-0-vs-web-3-0 …

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          Sar Haribhakti @sarthakgh
          Increasingly think that decentralized protocols are not venture friendly. If intentions are pure, protocols are the new SMTPs & should be treated as much. OTHOH, venture backed clients are possible. See GitHub, SuperHuman, Tweetdeck. Fat protocols on fat money make sense. https://twitter.com/sarthakgh/status/1027655525423403008 …
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        5. John Backus‏ @backus Aug 14
          Replying to @sarthakgh

          Yes. This is among a list of blog posts I wanna do. I’m thinking about trying to switch to a “quick thoughts / notes” format where I more quickly dash off thoughts for two hours every other day since otherwise I’m never gonna get to this kind of post

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        6. Sar Haribhakti‏ @sarthakgh Aug 14
          Replying to @backus

          This is why tech overlords invented tweets!

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        7. John Backus‏ @backus Aug 14
          Replying to @sarthakgh

          Yeah true. Maybe I’ll just Tweet most of it and blog post the (IMO) misunderstood stuff like the tech debt and blockchain-as-startup things

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        8. Sar Haribhakti‏ @sarthakgh Aug 14
          Replying to @backus

          Yea, too many thoughts, too many tweets, too little time where do you stand on the tech crypto vs money crypto debate? I increasingly dont believe tech crypto are venture businesses. They are new SMTPs with venture backable clients

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        9. John Backus‏ @backus Aug 14
          Replying to @sarthakgh

          I'm kind of weird b/c my strategy so far has been to operate mainly unaware of what others are writing. I've been in the space for years, but I'm not 100% on what 2018 money and tech crypto mean. I know "sound money" people think I'm "tech/startup crypto", but need to learn more

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