Consider diving into tulip land (without any major investments of course). Mint an NFT, write a coin contract, it's actually a very fun and easy way to learn the basics of web3.
I'm not sure if you're just being purposefully obtuse, but this is most definitely not true[1]. Consensus protocols (which are very salient in blockchains) have been studied in distributed computing since like the 70s; the EVM is basically a distributed Turing machine; etc.
[1] https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/2/234355-blockchains-fro...
I think you're arguing against a straw man here, nowhere did I claim the blockchain is foundational to distributed computing...
> Distributed computing is pretty interesting, and even more-so when there's a code complexity resource you need to optimize for (gas).
I thought this implied an equivocation between distributed computing and web3 stuff. If that wasn't the intent, mea culpa, sorry.
That's not fun. That's work. From TFA:
> Remember: The DAO — first of its kind, from which all present DAOs take their name — failed so badly it required a fork of the Ethereum blockchain.
You don't want to be stuck holding the bag on something like that.
feels crazy i have to say this on HN. this place has really changed over the years. what happened to the whole earth quotes.
"fail fast fail often"
at least Stuart Brand is still daring to explore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLGZdLpHl1w
I have some really expensive JPEGs I need to unload
Some would consider learning a old, outdated programming language a waste of time, but sometimes learning something new just to learn something new is just... Fun!