bidder33

good title!

Privacy.

you know stablecoin payments have as much volume as visa right?

as much as people don’t want crypto to be useful, it is. even “solved” problems can have better solutions

the “kinks to work out” is a funny way of saying “gaping holes that make this idea completely unworkable”

and given the endless stream of indie games government funding doesn’t seem to be a necessity.

i’ve been using it (with a stt->prompt->response->tts loop) for chinese practice and it is very good. being able to say “role play a market” and drop into it and switch mid sentence between languages when i get stuck and it just works it out and helps is amazing. i still think a human tutor is required for foundations but gpt is very helpful for practice.

on the other hand, an opt-in international alternative financial system is a pretty cool idea and warrants further investigation and more hacking

I think playing with money systems, ideas of value etc is interesting. The average contribution was about $50 - so like a kickstarter for a fan club.

and no, the plan is not to burn the book. there is an ongoing joke by a few people in the dao. but they do not represent the majority and the aims of the dao explicitly are to do with the preservation and protection of the book. so thats not going to happen.

but people arent actually interested in conversation here. hn hates crypto. we get it. people hating something they arent a part of and dont understand. But we are still going to have fun and make things, and the good vibes win in the end.

Or maybe it is simply a group of people who love jodos vision for dune. the idea of a film as a guiding prophet, visions of a flowing creative universe. and we want to play with that.

so we raised a bunch of funds and bought a cool book. now we are making an animation. we've been discussing ideas like sending funds to the makers of Jodorowskys Dune documentary which didnt even break even, as a way of thanking them too.

y'know, playing in the way we were taught, as hackers, as kids who grew up on the internet. To go out and do things, make things. hang out with our friends.

but hn would rather take a few snippets, call us all scammers and frauds, and hate on us.

but whatever.. we're gonna keep having fun ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

as the article mentioned, web3 was a term coined back in 2014. It was very much a reaction to "web2.0" silicon valley years which was probably felt a lot stronger back then. the term flew under the radar for a while, but the past six months people suddenly got annoyed by it.