@ErikVoorhees Imagine having a career where you can be wrong 99% of the time and still be considered a respected expert. Oh to live such an enchanted life!
There isn't much that's constant in this life, but these are pretty close: the money printer goes BRRRR and Paul Krugman being wrong. 😄
Anyone who thinks cryptocurrency is ready for prime time is kidding themselves until wallets are made more idiot proof. Can't usher in the desired "be your own bank" future if even experienced users occasionally mess up this royally. Hope to see more wallets address this 2/2
Almost a decade of headlines about careless mistakes with setting fees for bitcoin and ethereum prove *wallets need to be programmed in such a way that prevents this behavior*. Education is not enough. Why not program warnings if user picks outlier amount for fee? 1/2
A Uniswap trader claims to have ‘destroyed’ their life after accidentally spending 23 Ether in fees to execute a trade worth just $120 https://t.co/5aLo1rlAJN
More 1984 every day.
Thankfully we have decentralized storage systems coming online just as the older systems get Orwellian.
Not just blockchains, but IPFS, CRDTs, https://t.co/ptr4ETVkUe, and other dweb tech. Plus older but still important tools like git, BitTorrent, etc.
Can 2020 get any weirder?
"A Russian oligarch has reportedly been murdered with a crossbow while sitting in an outdoor sauna. Vladimir Marugov [...] was nicknamed 'The Sausage King.'"
#thesausageking
https://t.co/i4lLf4zhqu
If I had told you 10 years ago that you wouldn’t be able to post links to news on social media, that newsletters would selectively censor content, and the internet archive was ‘fact checking’...
you would think that China had won a world war and was in control of the internet
Imagine if smartphones were developed 6 years after the first electrical telegraph. Then imagine that there were bonkershit people out there still pushing the telegraph over smartphones. This is what bitcoin vs ethereum feels like. (Hint: ETH is the smartphone in this metaphor)