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Minting is an unfortunate coin-metaphor term (“coinage” 😖). It’s really a kind of source spigot. I wish they’d called mining drilling. Drilling for hashes.
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Ethereum developed better language tbh. Ether, gas… fluid metaphors all over the place. Oh yeah, hash rates! Can’t get more flow than that! And mining “pool” … you can’t really pool solids.
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Okay will hit pause on this train of thought. Trying hard to stay on the hands-on side. It would be just too easy for me to get carried away by this flow 🤣 My natural mode is tinker with real things for 5 minutes, speculate wildly in the abstract for 15. Must resist.
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Prediction: MetaMask will add a messaging function. You already have an address book. You’re probably doing splits with them. Why go to Signal or wherever? Mutisigs will develop attached group discussion fora. Messaging companies may acquire wallet companies. Or vice versa.
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Your main transactional (but not custodial) wallet will be your identity/social, replacing email and phone number.
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Venmo has already created a weird social network around Web2 payments. But Web3 is the natural home for the idea. On Venmo, it’s vaguely voyeuristic, like Glassdoor reviews. But on Web3 such things may have a healthier valence.
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