@DavidSchawel Basically, if you assume that the "money" part of blockchains just gets solved with the proliferation of stablecoins, then the Blockchain gets reconceptualized away from trying to create new money, to a distributed computing platform for doing stuff to money.
And if you assume that the money part is taken care of with stablecoins, then the real challenge to growth is not the invention of new money, but rather the legal impediments to bringing real world assets on-chain in some way.
And by real world assets, I don't mean physical per se. But any asset that we currently conceive of as being situated within the law or contract rights.
One thing that @KyleSamani piece makes clear is that there's no threat to BTC. There's no other project, really, competing to be sovereign, censorship-free money.
ETH however, as implied, has a strong competitor in SOL, which has higher hardware costs but faster tx throughput.
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@BrianVenturo Everyone knows that gamers have seen the prices of $NVDA chips soar due to their mining capabilities. But now it's spreading beyond GPUs to other areas, like hard drives.
Say I post my car as collateral to get instant liquidity for it. That token representing the car must also know the condition of the car. How does it know the condition of the car? Either a network of humans (at which point you've reinvented banks) or surveillance. @balajis
@balajis As @LDrogen pointed out yesterday, you can think of China's social credit system as a model for how a theoretical crypto-economy works
Mike Arrington blocked me years ago because I once questioned the value prop of Ripplecoin, but interesting to read about his efforts to create a property record directly on a blockchain techcrunch.com/2021/05/25/blo…
This is something we've been talking about here in the last few days, of putting Real World Assets on the chain itself, and this post talks about how legally cumbersome and difficult it is to actually do that, but it doesn't get into many details of how it works.
So I'm left with mostly questions, and still curious if the legal hoops you have to jump through to form the connection between a digital asset and a real-world asset ends up being worthwhile and gets you anywhere substantively or if you're just recreating legal rights.
This is all true, and yet Bitcoin has grown massively over the last 12 years (as have other cryptos). And so instead of critics constantly pointing out what cryptocurrencies aren't doing, they should spend more thinking trying to answer why that they've seen so much growth.
@tracyalloway@aaronlammer He's the perfect guest because @aaronlammer is a podcaster himself, and a great communicator. And he's in one sense totally immersed in it, and also in another sense still pretty normie, so he speaks both worlds really well. Great explanation of what he does.
And of course, you can find the podcast at all the usual places