7/ But like a ponzi scheme, when you dig, you find the root cause fundamentally underwhelming. You can't dig deep because there's no depth
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8/ The challenge posed by is to distinguish members of the set {Pet rock, Tulip manias, actual Revolutions} or {P, T, R}
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9/ If there are no complicated branchings and twists and turns to the story it's a pet rock. Test: it's a wikipedia 1-pager.
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10/ Go read Wikipedia page on pet rocks. Unlike more interesting stories, it won't suck you down big bunnytrail en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock
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11/ We're left with distinguishing tulip manias and the real deal. Here the test is equally simple: learning never gets seriously difficult
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13/ It is impossible to read just 1 tvtropes page. They're like chips. You'll invariably read 5-10 min, and the reading is NEVER difficult
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14/ Information/stories about tulip mania type things are like this: the going never gets hard, ever. You can endlessly explore fun trails
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Tulip biology, like cryptography, is deep and difficult. Blockchains mainly have a collector's complexity of many superficial differences.
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And thus far real world blockchain usage is primarily in a tvtropes space of funny anecdotes, cf. MtGox, Silk Road, etc.
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Tulip biology is a) naturally occurring b) not necessary to grok deeply to engineer/grow/sell c) no different from breeding other ag things
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Wasn't the whole reason people thought Tulips had value because of how hard they are to grow and preserve?
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I'm not going to attempt to convince you here. Place your bets for/against blockchain tech as you like. I'm for.
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