The punchline is not a surprise: almost all BTC and NFTs, and a smattering of other things
I am not sure, however, I've explained in one place why.
As always, this is highly personal and I'm not saying any of this is right for you
2/ 2013 to 2020 I was pretty much a BTC maxi
I traded some 2013 alts in Fall 2013 (Cryptsy!) and realized that:
a) I hated it
b) I was not any good at it
c) I was going to eventually lose all my money regardless of if BTC was GMI
3/ So one day cold turkey I just stopped trading, said
"OK, I have these BTC, stop looking at price, don't fomo, don't cope"
I was a medium sized BTC evangelist back them.
Despite this, most friends, colleagues, family dumped their BTC in 2014-2016
1/ On the Nature of the Token Shapes the Nature of the Holders Who Shape The Nature Of The Token.
In the short-run, anything can happen with any token.
What determines the long-run though? What determines what will happen in 5, 10, 20 years?
2/ As always, it starts with Bitcoin. What was the "nature of the token?"
At the protocol level: It was fixed, progressively mined, and had a purpose inseparable from the function of the network (rewarding miners to encourage competition / decentralization of mining)
3/ At the social level, in the beginning, it was not particularly described as a "get rich quick" scheme or even a "get rich slow" scheme.
It was described an experiment in decentralization, as an alternative to corrupted centralized systems.
People and ideas are ferociously competing to live rent-free in your head.
For most people it is worse than that.
It is a high school rager with hundreds of people and ideas spilling beer on the sofa of your head.
Your job: face control
2/ It is impossible to live with a completely blank slate.
A functioning society is built on endless layers of abstraction on concepts and ideas.
Almost everyone, including the based contrarians, are repeating ideas that someone else propagated into their head.
3/ So let's get this out of the way first.
There will be a party in your living room of your head.
Perhaps the Buddha himself saw through the veil of ignorance, the cycle of samsara, and found nirvana, but safe to say that nobody reading this tweet has.
I did a lecture today for @giaglis's MOOC on NFTs and I got the RCSA question.
"NFTs are just a receipt, just a pointer to an image. I can download them and view them without buying them"
A classic question! Here is what I said.
2/ Imagine the Statue of Liberty.
It is very large.
It is on Liberty Island
It was a present from BFF (France)
It is owned by the Federal Government and specifically National Park Services
Anyone can look at it, whether the President of the USA or you
3/ Now, imagine the Federal Government needed to raise money fast.
It decided to sell the Statue of Liberty on the condition that it has to remain exactly as open to the public as it is now (It is both a National Monument and UNESCO World Heritage site)