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Pineapple Fund has pretty much single-handedly restored my opinion of cryptocurrency to neutral. Pine is pretty much the Alfred Nobel of the blockchain.
by aaroninsf 9y ago
Pineapple Fund has pretty much single-handedly restored my opinion of cryptocurrency to neutral.
Pine is pretty much the Alfred Nobel of the blockchain.
- TaylorGood 9y agoIt's one of the greater "things" to emerge from tech and humanity. Love the approach and branding too.
- Cw67NTN8F 9y ago>>Pine is pretty much the Alfred Nobel of the blockchain. I wish I had the money and Pine's, or Mr Apple's :) attitude: tens of millions are than I'll ever need so I'll donate the rest. To be fair a lot of rich people donate, maybe even more now that Gates has pushed the idea of not leaving everything to their kids.
- aaroninsf 9y agoMany do, but the way this has been done, seems in line with what my own intuitions of how some good valley hacker would do things. With no interest in the traditional institutional pathways; with a lot of curiosity (witness the Reddit call for proposals); with a lot of interest in undervalued organizations...
- sp332 9y agoFunny, since Alfred Nobel launched his fund to try to repair his reputation. His obituary almost read: The merchant of death is dead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize#History
- aaroninsf 9y agoThat's exactly what I had in mind... ;)
- keyle 9y agoThat helped restore my faith in humanity. Also sending cars in space.