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Here's additional context, https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=ethlink-service-about-to-go-offline-because-domain-owner-is-in-prison https://web3isgoinggreat.com/

Here's additional context, https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=ethlink-service-about-to-go-offline-because-domain-owner-is-in-prison https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=ethlink-service-about-to-go... ("eth.link service about to go offline because domain owner is in prison")

josteink 4y ago
That’s very informative. Thanks for posting! > the project has found itself at the mercy of GoDaddy. Welcome to the decentralized web3 we've all been promised! I admit this had me laughing.
- benreesman 4y ago
  I tend to think the cyber money hyperventilation on both sides ranges from silly to really annoying, but… Molly White is hilarious and that site is gold. She’s (intentionally or not) done a bit of an homage to dealbreaker.com, which is roughly “Wall St. is Going Great” and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys the above. Top kek.
  - CPLX 4y ago
    Every generation deserves a fuckedcompany.com or two.
  - rvz 4y ago
    I also find jesters and clowns hilarious as well. Some of them don't need to dress up, but just love to professionally complain and grift on top of another grift and point fingers at everyone being an extreme crypto supporter. Eventually, they will give up just like the other critics did and it will be on to the next one.
    - benreesman 4y ago
      In general I agree. The cybermoney hate-kegels that HN practices are, interpreted in the most generous possible way a really loud, really low-signal way for a bunch of people to express the sentiment that they think some tradeable instruments are over-valued, which professionals do by either not buying them, or going short if they're convicted. Less charitable interpretations cluster around old-fashioned sour grapes that a bunch of people lucked into 10^6x or 10^7x type returns, which, in fairness, is hard not to be annoyed by on a human flinch level. There is another group of people actively trying to profit either financially or in-kind via page views on the very thing they are calling destructive profiteering, and in the least generous possible interpretation, Ms. White falls into that category with this site. But life is fucking hard at the best of times, and speaking for myself I'm generally much happier and more sane when I keep a sense of humor about things. Her site made me laugh, and was therefore a bargain at the ten minutes I spent chuckling over it.
- aestetix 4y ago
  Don't forget the irony that the decentralized web is now effectively owned by Godaddy, the horrible corrupt company that largely inspired web 3.0 in the first place.
status200 4y ago
Unsurprising that Molly does not understand how DNS (or ENS) works, and that eth.link is just a pointer. Admitting ignorance for the lulz is not the Web3 diss they think it is.
- p4bl0 4y ago
  Molly White perfectly knows how DNS work, thanks for her. Your "just a pointer" links already exists in a lot of places and you won't be able to update them all. In a few days who knows who will buy the domain and what will become of it, and where all these already existing links will point to.
  - status200 4y ago
    I highly doubt that, since they just want to dance around an imaginary problem, and you aren't much better if you think that broken links = broken platform. Imagine if they put the same amount of effort into ridiculing old growth logging, strip mining, tax evasion, wealth inequality... literally anything but trying to dunk on some nerds playing around with cryptography to try and create a new trustless financial system. This is why the problem solvers benefit the most in the early days, and why my early investments in ETH are still worth 3100% more than when i started even after the latest corrections. It is easy to recognize issues, but putting effort into actually doing something about it is where new developments actually occur.
    - p4bl0 4y ago
      > some nerds playing around with cryptography to try and create a new trustless financial system Okay, this is really not what's at play here. I would highly encourage you to read The Politics of Bitcoin by David Golumbia, and will not participate further in this discussion with someone who has personal investments at stakes and who can therefore not be neutral and is already using fallacious arguments (no one said "broken link = broken platform", you're the one making this up) and ad hominem accusations.
    - lightedman 4y ago
      "you aren't much better if you think that broken links = broken platform" Why? It's basically been like that since the days of Geocities. More broken links, more people go elsewhere to find what they are looking for, now you no longer have traffic because people know they can find the information in a more reliable fashion elsewhere, and now you fail because you don't have enough traffic and actual customers providing that traffic to keep business going.

josteink 4y ago

That’s very informative. Thanks for posting! > the project has found itself at the mercy of GoDaddy. Welcome to the decentralized web3 we've all been promised! I admit this had me laughing.

benreesman 4y ago
I tend to think the cyber money hyperventilation on both sides ranges from silly to really annoying, but… Molly White is hilarious and that site is gold. She’s (intentionally or not) done a bit of an homage to dealbreaker.com, which is roughly “Wall St. is Going Great” and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys the above. Top kek.
- CPLX 4y ago
  Every generation deserves a fuckedcompany.com or two.
- rvz 4y ago
  I also find jesters and clowns hilarious as well. Some of them don't need to dress up, but just love to professionally complain and grift on top of another grift and point fingers at everyone being an extreme crypto supporter. Eventually, they will give up just like the other critics did and it will be on to the next one.
  - benreesman 4y ago
    In general I agree. The cybermoney hate-kegels that HN practices are, interpreted in the most generous possible way a really loud, really low-signal way for a bunch of people to express the sentiment that they think some tradeable instruments are over-valued, which professionals do by either not buying them, or going short if they're convicted. Less charitable interpretations cluster around old-fashioned sour grapes that a bunch of people lucked into 10^6x or 10^7x type returns, which, in fairness, is hard not to be annoyed by on a human flinch level. There is another group of people actively trying to profit either financially or in-kind via page views on the very thing they are calling destructive profiteering, and in the least generous possible interpretation, Ms. White falls into that category with this site. But life is fucking hard at the best of times, and speaking for myself I'm generally much happier and more sane when I keep a sense of humor about things. Her site made me laugh, and was therefore a bargain at the ten minutes I spent chuckling over it.
aestetix 4y ago
Don't forget the irony that the decentralized web is now effectively owned by Godaddy, the horrible corrupt company that largely inspired web 3.0 in the first place.

status200 4y ago

Unsurprising that Molly does not understand how DNS (or ENS) works, and that eth.link is just a pointer. Admitting ignorance for the lulz is not the Web3 diss they think it is.

p4bl0 4y ago
Molly White perfectly knows how DNS work, thanks for her. Your "just a pointer" links already exists in a lot of places and you won't be able to update them all. In a few days who knows who will buy the domain and what will become of it, and where all these already existing links will point to.
- status200 4y ago
  I highly doubt that, since they just want to dance around an imaginary problem, and you aren't much better if you think that broken links = broken platform. Imagine if they put the same amount of effort into ridiculing old growth logging, strip mining, tax evasion, wealth inequality... literally anything but trying to dunk on some nerds playing around with cryptography to try and create a new trustless financial system. This is why the problem solvers benefit the most in the early days, and why my early investments in ETH are still worth 3100% more than when i started even after the latest corrections. It is easy to recognize issues, but putting effort into actually doing something about it is where new developments actually occur.
  - p4bl0 4y ago
    > some nerds playing around with cryptography to try and create a new trustless financial system Okay, this is really not what's at play here. I would highly encourage you to read The Politics of Bitcoin by David Golumbia, and will not participate further in this discussion with someone who has personal investments at stakes and who can therefore not be neutral and is already using fallacious arguments (no one said "broken link = broken platform", you're the one making this up) and ad hominem accusations.
  - lightedman 4y ago
    "you aren't much better if you think that broken links = broken platform" Why? It's basically been like that since the days of Geocities. More broken links, more people go elsewhere to find what they are looking for, now you no longer have traffic because people know they can find the information in a more reliable fashion elsewhere, and now you fail because you don't have enough traffic and actual customers providing that traffic to keep business going.