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@matdryhurst Right, but cryptographers aren't political scientists or economists. They are, in fact, doing "P2P" (or to be more precise DPKI) about as right as possible these days, drawing inspo from signal, etc etc. But that's a technical criterion of success-- i'm more worried about
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@matdryhurst bsky being the next meta than I am about bsky being the next whatsapp or telegram.
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@matdryhurst as for eth, sure, it's the closest we've seen to a serious challenger to the credit card networks in decades. and the rails definitely favor/work well with crowdfunding, but the question is again non-technical- will the PEOPLE who WOULD crowdfund good things stay?
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@matdryhurst or was that another zero-interest-rate mirage and early-mover advantage...