The crypto reference here is simply gorgeous writing given the state of our industry.
I am at the same time amused and ashamed.
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Sooooo.... I’m going to take *slight* issue with in the hopes of redeeming my own self esteem after reading that.
In cryptocurrency, the shitposting *is* the protocol.
There’s no academic basis for standards, just a shitty white paper and a few thousand lines of code.
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What Bitcoin, and by larger extent cryptocurrency as a whole, has become is a result not of the technology as much as the beefs over the technology.
In crypto, the Internet of Beefs is directly monetized in every single altcoin.
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The toxicity which then arises is in those, to borrow ’s terminology, knights who do not build or develop so then serve as the ideological frontlines of those who do.
This allows the Barony, a new class, to sit above the Knights and Mooks and dole out favors as funding.
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No conflict, be it actual war or shitposting, cannot continue without new money to fuel the need for eyeballs and clicks.
Cryptocurrency brings that cycle to a nearly self sustaining apex.
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Best thing I’ve read all month.
Thanks,
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I actually did a speculative talk on actually turning blood debts into an explicit cryptocurrency model a couple of years back 😆 m.youtube.com/watch?v=ow43pF

