The thing is, I think it's right to say "cryptocurrency is a scam industry". I don't want this to be true, but it looks like it is.
For a few years I was like, "Wow, Ethereum is cool! Haha, imagine email over ethereum where recipients charged a fee, goodbye spam! Solidity is a pleasure to write in! Decentralization is cool! Oh wow, ZKsnarks!"
Now, I'm thinking, "Ok, where are these cool blockchain things?" All I see are:
- Cryptocoin exchanges or lotteries, but that's not interesting,
- NFT exchanges which are too reliant on centralized services to be interesting even if they weren't full of scams, and
- "Layer n+1" platforms which promise to be the foundation of something cool. (Maybe a "Layer n+2" platform?)
None of these are cool. I want there to be cool decentralized Things. The only three interesting things I've found are (1) notarization, (2) datascience and profiling data from publicly available blockchains.
For a few years I was like, "Wow, Ethereum is cool! Haha, imagine email over ethereum where recipients charged a fee, goodbye spam! Solidity is a pleasure to write in! Decentralization is cool! Oh wow, ZKsnarks!"
Now, I'm thinking, "Ok, where are these cool blockchain things?" All I see are:
- Cryptocoin exchanges or lotteries, but that's not interesting, - NFT exchanges which are too reliant on centralized services to be interesting even if they weren't full of scams, and - "Layer n+1" platforms which promise to be the foundation of something cool. (Maybe a "Layer n+2" platform?)
None of these are cool. I want there to be cool decentralized Things. The only three interesting things I've found are (1) notarization, (2) datascience and profiling data from publicly available blockchains.