If you’re an investor operating in private markets, imo it’s unacceptable to try to publicly shame an entrepreneur who is making good faith efforts.
Anyone operating at the private stage knows that getting something off the ground is hard.
Sustaining it? Even harder.
An investor or trader can diversify. An entrepreneur is all-in, requiring tremendous courage.
Finance was originally classified an “unproductive” part of the economy.
While accounting has changed with social convention, it remains the case that the real genesis of production comes from entrepreneurs.
No matter how rich, financial intermediaries of all kinds (banks, VCs, HFs, etc) are just assistants to real production.
Financial intermediaries would serve our world much better if they remembered that…
I have people I consider metaverse friends engaging in this behavior, so there’s not a buried vendetta, I just think it’s way out of line and a money drunk symptom of bull market brain.
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Traders are momentum driven, and alt L1s to Ethereum are peak momentum right now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Let’s see how things look 2H 2022.
To be clear, I fully expect a multichain world— @placeholdervc has invested to that end, but we have chosen a modular, community-owned one as opposed to monolithic.
And we are not abandoning $ETH.
A multichain world is good for competition, which is great for users. The point here is lowest fees possible, while providing all the guarantees we know well.
@element_fi allows users to split the base asset of a *yield generating position* into 2 separate, fungible tokens: The Principal Token and the Yield Token.
3/ At the end of a set term (eg, 6 months) each Principal Token is redeemable for its proportional share of the initial stake, while Yield Tokens are redeemable for the yield generated by the principal over the same time period.
Over the years I've watched $BTC maxis get more and more bitter over the successful experimentation around them that they rejected at an early stage.
I fear $ETH maxis could walk the same path 🧵
What's tough is crypto's directionally going through "ideals dilution," where each successive wave of adopters are less in it for the "ideals" and more in it for the cool stuff, money, and because everyone else is doing it.
$BTC and $ETH are the most popular, ideals-driven cryptonetworks. Many of the competing layer-1 smart contract protocols are much less ideals-driven, and so long-time $ETH devotees feel repulsed.
Don’t know how this entered CT debate, but there’s a big diff between sunscreen & sunblock.
As a lifelong surfer, I use sunblock (Zinc Oxide or Titanium Dioxide) religiously, and avoid sunscreen.
People saying you shouldn’t put anything on your skin must not get out much.
Sunscreen (lots of the chemicals ending in -ate) gets absorbed into your skin, which can be more cosmetically appealing, but then breaks down within your body — sunscreen breaks down, not your skin, so you don’t turn red — creating free radicals that *potentially* cause cancer.
Sunblock (Zinc Oxide, Titanium Dioxide) does not get absorbed into your body. It leaves an opaque coat, like putting a T-shirt on your face, that then protects your skin from directly receiving the sun’s rays.
Many #cryptohierarchies are parading as #cryptonetworks, but the feel, intent, and distribution of such systems are far from that of a network.
#Cryptonetworks are run by crypto-natives, people committed to decentralization of data, wealth & power for the good of all.
#Cryptohierarchies are often run by Web 2.0 or TradFi transplants. While some can make a full transformation, many remain blind to their cultural habits.
It’s possible to reject the myopic view of BTC maxis, while supporting #Bitcoin.
While there are outliers, most of the people building out the #Bitcoin protocol or its applications are much more tolerant & reasonable than a garden variety maxi.
The loud minority of $BTC maxis are tiresome, but they’re just that, a minority.
Don’t let them turn you against what’s an important innovation.