Re: Political Tech: That's at least the scene's ideology, but I think it's likely closer to BitTorrent, a brief period of skirting the laws, followed by legit businesses better executing the core business cases.
When I said "commercial", I meant not illegal.
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It's going to be interesting to see if the money transfer aspects of it are durable when regulation/tech catches up.
Seems like US / China are probably going to be pretty good at enforcement, but the Venezuelas may still be able to buy services to do so as well.
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I was thinking about Musk's Starlink and similar systems as another one of these. Russia seemingly can't jam it, and it's causing some actual political issues, but unsure how hard it would be to maintain long term.
Imagine is they set this up over China...
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You’re more than a little behind current conversations dude, this is a 2017 vintage take 😄
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What's the current conversation?
As in, it seems like we're just seeing this play out in a real geopolitical event.
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I mean in crypto not Starlink
Too hard to explain if you’re not keeping up
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Why can no crypto person ever give a straight answer to the use case question?
Doesn't seem that hard for anything else, which seems to imply it's a naive cult. I've not been surprised by anything thus far with crypto.
Any link to a good explanation?
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Because it’s an unproductive question at this stage.
Easier to just let history be the judge of whether or not it’s significant. Check back in a decade.
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What do you think a good question at this stage is? Any interesting answers?
I'm not trying to be snarky. I've talked with a lot of major/OG crypto people, and they've never had good answers for me either, which is why I'm so skeptical.
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You’re the very practical kind of entrepreneur :)
I like things with no use case the best. So long as it thrives sustainably and creates interestingness I’m fine. I don’t care about legible utility or solving problems. There’s still no real use case for twitter.
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lol I know what zk proofs are. I just don't think they don't actually solve the thing they claim to solve.
In my world "technically correct" is not the best kind of correct haha.
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You’re still thinking like a problem solver. I didn’t mention a particular problem. Just an open-ended technique.
Let me flip it around. Why do you care at all? If you think there’s nothing there but speculation you can safely ignore it. Why don’t you?
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