It's a win when I agree with anyone these days! I love the discussion here, people are smart, relatively civil, and have a lot of value to add to conversations

It's a win when I agree with anyone these days! I love the discussion here, people are smart, relatively civil, and have a lot of value to add to conversations. One of the few spaces I still learn anything significant from experts in their subjects. Much wisdom here. And hey whether or not it's right it's still food for thought. Predicting the future is impossible. As I've gotten older I see the same meta-patterns played out again and again, so I try to look for those indicators. I get paid for it, so at least I'm not super terrible at it. The similarities between what happened to Freenet and what is happening in crypto space are pretty profound. The common denominator is that building extra-governmental spaces just attracts criminals who have no where else to go. The worse the crime, the more attractive the extra-governmental space. The rest of us are not forced to go there, and those that do usually come home with their tail between their legs. It's a brutal space. There's a reason we have governments, the alternative is just terrible.