1994: “the internet means there’ll be no more governments!” 2018: “blockchain means there’ll be no more governments!” Both nonsense, yes. But the internet still turned out to be pretty important, and it was partly because of the things that prompted people to talk like that.
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If you think blockchain adds unique value and will enable new solutions to important problems, then more power to you. You may well be right, I'm not arguing you're wrong.
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I will just note that the money flowing into the field is not being guided by the value-added and the problem-solving. It's 99% hype-following and short-term speculation. If you're different, I respect that. But this is where my skepticism comes from
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Self-evidently. My point in my original tweet is that the specific character of the bullshit used has a lot in common with that used 25 years ago. It’s a certain type of delusion, and that’s interesting
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