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.
But there’s another important point people are papering over:
Who owns the rights to the fees?
While people spout off about Ethereum being a rent-machine, in the same breath they are getting stupid rich off sickeningly concentrated (future) rent-machines of their own (many alt L1s).
Ethereum has a plan to lower fees for a global base of users, while preserving credible neutrality.
While many alt-L1s are cheaper now, because they are much less used, for most I don’t see similarly sophisticated plans.
We’ll see.
Regardless, I’ve lost a lot of faith in the words I publicly see; I trust almost none of them, when I know the actions behind them. But I guess that’s growing up.
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Despite my loyalty to Bitcoin & Ethereum, two networks that I literally grew up alongside, I will never be a maxi of any chain.
If there’s something I’m a maxi about, it’s abundance for all. The point of this tech is open & uncensorable economic access that allows all boats to rise.
Most of my questioning is to keep everyone, including myself, as honest as possible in pursuit of this goal.
While I don’t agree with every choice that different L1s are making, I also know navigating innovation is messy and more nuanced than Twitter can ever reveal.
@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.