lijon.eth

Ethereum is fun / I like to build simple things / most people in enterprise are not enterprise people

[lijon.eth @NetLijon]

So, something happened.

I got a kid! What was more unexpected is that I've had to raise him alone.

Raising a baby alone means dropping everything. But he is getting older, and we kind of grow together now.

I always liked lijon.eth, so this is what I'll reboot. Lets build!

[lijon.eth @NetLijon]

@yeezytwts @llamaonthebrink He called out Mert. It's not reasonable to lable him a "developer" - he is a social media influencer.

There have been new "Merts" every year in this space; influencer accounts that somehow reach mainstream legitimacy and use this to propell "debates" that are complete BS.

[lijon.eth @NetLijon]

@DrNickA Though: what if hierarchical structures are simply good at keeping bad things alive (e.g. rent seeking an old invention no longer producing new value)

Then still from first person perspective (e.g. the organisation or group) it IS indeed good, or necessary.

[lijon.eth @NetLijon]

@Crypto_McKenna I take pride in saying I'm not a trader, but I would say a problem with your thesis is that L2s have *actual* lethal competition, unlike all the the L1 grifting. At this level we are still building general platforms.

[lijon.eth @NetLijon]

@ryanberckmans Why is this space so dumb?

The Ethereum ecosystem solved payments with scale years ago. It just wasn't/isn't very interesting for the market.

More importantly, no one is "alarmed" over progress.

[lijon.eth @NetLijon]

@DrNickA Yeah, because it's already happening. It amazes me how so many people are more afraid of very specific possible future scifi scenarios when this is already going on.

AGI (whatever) as a huge tech leap is most of all a possibility to derail from the doom we are heading for.

[lijon.eth @NetLijon]

@marczeller This is an organic journey. We are 10+ years into it (depending on if we count development from eth, btc, tcp/ip..).

We won't need all the L2s popping up. Maybe only 10% or even 5% of them will ever reach ~Ethereum level security, but that's completely fine.

[lijon.eth @NetLijon]

@TrustlessState A Solana ETF would be utterly dumb in so many ways. This characteristic tend to drive this market, so a Solana ETF it is.

[lijon.eth @NetLijon]

@AWice SBF/FTX was just regular shady tradfi marketed as something else. I am sorry they tricked you (a lot of us did try to tell you), but tradfi isn't something new, it is what it is and SBF/FTX broke the tradfi rules in a bad way.

[lijon.eth @NetLijon]

@mrjasonchoi Crypto has nothing to do with ideology at all, it's just human technology. It's a tool so that we can cooperate much, much more efficiently.

Seems people confuse this because you can *fight* crypto for some ideological reason (govt control etc), much like with any technology.

[lijon.eth @NetLijon]

@HumansNoContext Retail investing / security laws et al

[lijon.eth @NetLijon]

@DrNickA @mcuban @iampaulgrewal @coinbase Also fachinating how that "ideological ground" is split evenly between capitalism and communism.

Our ideological frameworks are built in a world where Bitcoin-type cooperation does not exist, so I guess this indicates that the anti-crypto crowd simply does not know what it is.

[lijon.eth @NetLijon]

@DrNickA We are slooowly erasing a lot of what it is/was to be a human, including stuff like natural reproduction (analog IRL sex, boomer stuff). Eventually we might substitute humanity with software.

But we're in a bubble and everyone wants this movie to be much more shocking.

[lijon.eth @NetLijon]

@TrustlessState I wish people would stop giving this spotlight to bad actors.

Something like "oh these guys behaved shitty in a web2 project, but let's dive into their crypto project because it might be different!"

In writing I hope you see why it doesn't make sense.

[lijon.eth @NetLijon]

@feurez They did good with the badges.

What was/is the hate about? Haven't seen anything

[lijon.eth @NetLijon]

@matthuang @VitalikButerin @gavofyork
@gakonst

Two from the top of my head.

[lijon.eth @NetLijon]

@dataalways More like the enabler. We can send money without third parties because Bitcoin is decentralized, and now we can do X without third parties because Ethereum is decentralized. The question doesn't make much sense.

[lijon.eth @NetLijon]

@TrustlessState Noo, have you learned nothing? The bull markets arrive before the tech is ready. The tech being ready "soon" is always the main narrative.

[lijon.eth @NetLijon]

Well done! @EthCC

Recap in progress

[lijon.eth @NetLijon]

@Kanesley10 @EdwardWilll @VitalikButerin Emin rattled the cage quite a bit the last few years, shilling his coin to retail like an absolute clown. This was probably even more upsetting b/c a lot of us had respected him for a long time.

Ignore/mute any discussion around him because they are inherently toxic.