> it's hard to imagine a programmer on HN not being able to think of interesting non-JPEG things to do with an open source, public and permissionless ledger/dat

> it's hard to imagine a programmer on HN not being able to think of interesting non-JPEG things to do with an open source, public and permissionless ledger/database. You underestimate the extent at which working-for-a-living has utterly destroyed my sense of imagination and ability to have an original thought. It’s depressing. Very much so.