Rather a lot of people in tech wonder if crypto, or large parts of it, is an emperor with no clothes and don’t want to say so publicly. That’s not to say that it is, but there is a real reluctance to be publicly skeptical regardless of private sentiment.
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Fully agree that the presence of a lot of BS does not invalidate a domain, but in reverse, just because it has *some* of the characteristics of the early web does not mean it has the *important* characteristics. The early web was *extremely useful*, in a world-changing way.
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I have been continually arguing that crypto is not another internet. I agree with that. But there's a wide spectrum between the CA Gold Rush and the South Seas Bubble that it exists somewhere within.
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1/2 Generally curious, from a first principle perspective, what makes you believe that crypto for payments (for example) wouldn't work? It's very apparent in my mind that utilizing a decentralized consensus mechanism to cut out middlemen makes a lot of sense in the payment space.
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2/2 Value can transfer nearly instantaneously on the blockchain to anywhere in the world. The main problem is with scalability, but if you believe that problem can be solved...why not?
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