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Your list of reasons to be negative wrt web3/dapps fails to include: "professional developers, often with decades of experience with software, hardware and netw
by peteforde 5y ago
Your list of reasons to be negative wrt web3/dapps fails to include: "professional developers, often with decades of experience with software, hardware and networking who optimistically researched the domain but concluded that it is technically unsane; that most proposed applications can be accomplished easier and more reliably with traditional architecture".
That's not cynical or emotional, just a perfectly reasonable outcome based on expertise and, to varying degrees, lived experience.
- waprin 5y agoHacker News seems to think the circles they hang out with represent all developers? Dan Boneh teaches cryptography for Stanford and works for a16z crypto. Silvio Macali is a Turing award winner working full time in a new blockchain. People like Gavin Wood (CS PhD) and Vitalik are obviously top 1% of engineering talent. It’s amazing how HN insists crypto people live in a bubble, but upvote the low effort “web3 is a scam” written by nobodies post du jour but choose to ignore all the worlds leading cryptographers excited about web3. HN is 100x the bubble/ echo chamber than the crypto world is .
- pavlov 5y agoA16Z is obviously motivated by quick money because they can flip tokens much faster than traditional VC investments — exits happen in months rather than years. It’s a brilliant money-making scheme while it lasts. One Turing winner’s opinion shouldn’t be given undue weight. Kary Mullis was a Nobel Prize recipient who used his scientific clout to advocate for the once-popular claim that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS even after evidence was overwhelming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kary_Mullis Excellent scientists can be wrong outside their narrow field of expertise.
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