Criticisms of crypto (and gleeful pointing to failed/hacked projects) are irritating to me.
In the lead up to the dotcom bubble there was a website called fuckedcompany.com, which gleefully pointed out all the failed+scammy dotcoms. It eventually got turned into a book.
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But today barely anyone remembers the book or the website, and nobody cares about the scams.
Today we live in a world shaped by Amazon and Google and Facebook, many of whom were run by people (or companies) that emerged out of the wreckage of 1999.
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It’s terribly easy to point out all the scams and failures in crypto.
But it doesn’t matter. Nobody will care you got it right a decade from now.
The really hard but valuable thing is figuring out which project might become the next Amazon, and therefore change our world.
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I saw a quote recently that captures part of the dynamic here: “Pessimism always sounds smarter because it relies on knowledge of what currently exists. Optimism sounds stupider because it assumes technology or use cases that do not yet exist. Optimism tends to get it right.”
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Ok, something more practically useful: watch the meta, not necessarily the projects.
If, say, Terra blows up, what matters isn’t ‘boohoo stablecoin stupid’ but what the OTHER projects take away from the blowup, and how they change their mechanisms.
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Ignore the hype and the criticism and just watch the meta — the rate of combination and technical experimentation, and the way mechanisms are tried, discarded and spread throughout projects.
To bet against this much experimentation appears risky to me.
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idk, wouldn't the space be a lot better / signal be a lot clearer if there was considerably *more* shaming of all the scammers and grifters?
Mocking "We tried earnestly and failed" sucks.
Mocking "We tried to scam poor kids with hype and fraud" is a public service.
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I don’t think so. I think the pessimists are going to pessimist, while I try very hard to figure out what might be big, and feel continually irritated lol.
/ducks
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