> [...] the internet couldn't scale because if you look at where email is today and where it was six months ago and draw a line, we cannot scale. The internet will melt down. People wrote more Ph.D. theses about how the internet would die under the load of email and never scale.
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> Right now, there are a dozen people writing their Ph.D theses on how bitcoin will fail, has failed, is dying, was dead, and has died again.
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All of these were quotes pulled from my book-form copy of Antonopoulos' The Internet of Money. I understand this is just a lot of the tech-academic posturing that goes on fucking endlessly (both ways) but...
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People get that people who write Ph.D.s about how things break and fail in narrow domains tend to be obsessively interested in making them work, right?
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He didn't cite these various theses and I was to young to have noticed them then but I'm willing to bet that a lot of those folks who wrote Ph.D. theses on it? They went on to engineer protocols and systems that afforded better scaling *because* of their earned insights.
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So yea, court that "damn the naysayer's!" following all you want — it's very much part of the game. But, the idea that people doing Ph.D.'s are disinterested or pessimistic documentarian's is pretty fucking dumb. (Image source: http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/ …)pic.twitter.com/kCqkDDDTrL
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