Reasonable rebuttal to reasonable article. I wouldn't accuse MM of lying, though, I think it's very easy to miss something like whether a thing is normally held

Reasonable rebuttal to reasonable article. I wouldn't accuse MM of lying, though, I think it's very easy to miss something like whether a thing is normally held on a simple apache VPS. As for dipping your toes, I'd say it's maybe the hardest area of coding to do that in. Generally I find the documentation is lacking, everything is moving really quickly, there's a huge amount of jargon, and there's a huge number of protocols and standards to read about, with very little authority on what is worth spending time on. I have a collection of comments in my side projects where I've discovered various surprising things about how blockchain stuff works. Others I know have similar pages of notes on how particular things in the space are arranged. Moxie captures why this is so: there's a gold rush, and appearances seem to matter more than substance.