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You seem to be criticizing the delta between the lofty hopes for it and it's actual usage. For value transfer, and to a more limited extent, for dapps like Augur. Nodes came online to use it, not to make a quick buck. > What if we put 'beginning' as in 'before it was even called the Internet'? Indeed, ARPANET, which came online in 1969, saw fast growth in the United States in the 70s. Please excuse skeptics for holding accountable those that do not have a history of consistent and successful results. He also said Ethereum's 'code is law', until he changed his mind and forked the network due to a hack. Vitalik advertised Ethereum as a 'world computer' but it can barely stand when only 14k users are trading cartoon kitties on it.

Satoshi didn't expect persistent forks and altcoins, for example. So far, 'plans' in the cryptocurrency space never go as expected. Of course the effect on the environment will continue to be pointed out: Ethereum's energy consumption is growing and the use cases are nowhere to be seen. To compare these world-changing technologies that were invented and used merely 5 years after ARPANET came online to CryptoKitties, which is the most useful thing to come out of a decade of work on blockchains, is a joke! And it's barely funny!Ģ. Email started being used in 1972, FTP in 1973. The government subsidized it because its potential use was obvious. What if we put 'beginning' as in 'before it was even called the Internet'? Indeed, ARPANET, which came online in 1969, saw fast growth in the United States in the 70s. In my opinion, no one really understands what we are doing or what we are capable of with it. Last year when people decided to give me calls about it, especially friends and family, my response was 'How much do you know about cryptography? How much do you think you understand this stuff? I barely understand it. Sharks love to eat people that want that. How many of you are listening to podcasts about DNS? People want to get rich quick. The real work that is happening with decentralized systems around this stuff is happening quietly. Unlike the internet, the first 'killer app' for this was about literally printing money. To his surprise, I had no opinions on hot coins! It turned out the dude was specifically a crypto journalist and had a stake in a Puerto Rico 'Crypto Hedge Fund'. The call was (from my perspective) supposed to be about my AR GIS platform. There is so much growing out of this that is good.Ī partner in my mine got me on a call a year and a half ago with a friend of his from Bloomberg. I love that ETH can be used for address resolution outside of DNS. I really love what blockchain can do for consensus. After the 2014 crash, everyone was saying 'I told you so!' and I had some bills to pay. heh.Īll the people I offered those mine shares to have called me this year thinking I was on to something! I wasn't on to something, I lucked into a situation and did something with computers that I liked. This thing actually put me deeply in the red.

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At the time my tiny run-of-the-mill software consultancy barely kept it's head above water. I couldn't get people to sign mine share contracts with me to support the operating costs, I ended up spending most of it on my power bill, food, and my therapist (that sounds like it's a joke, but it's not). That was in addition to the 2TON that already fed the house. When the sun hit, I had to put misters on my 2TON window AC unit so the room wouldn't heat soak. They were not really convinced I wasn't doing anything illegal. I literally had to let my neighbors in for a tour so they knew I wasn't growing weed.

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I had to insulate the windows in this front office that got the August setting sun. I got the office in my little rental house wired up with some 220 breakers and turned my tiny house into a space heater. They were late and gave us a bunch of Jupiters they had already mined to death. I REALLY wanted to run a mine and I got in through a friend early on the Neptunes. I failed up from a deal where I designed boards for Avalon ASICs, set up the production pipeline, then the chips got stolen by the Chinese government (as far as I can tell), and my chip broker paid me back in BTC when it was at about $12. I ran a 13TH mine of KNC Neptunes and Jupiters in 2014.

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