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Hacker News seems to think the circles they hang out with represent all developers? Dan Boneh teaches cryptography for Stanford and works for a16z crypto. Sil
by waprin 5y ago
Hacker 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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