Bitcoin is people striving for financial self sovereignty.
“Crypto” is a bunch of people trying to get rich using some cool new technology they nobody understands.
See how much bigger the second is than the first.
“Crypto” is a bunch of people trying to get rich using some cool new technology they nobody understands.
See how much bigger the second is than the first.
As a hacker I want to find out what else we can do with it. What surprising things can we build?
What if we could use some kind of blockchain tech to incentivise people to do great things despite what you’ve seen so far? (Some people really are trying to do that.)
What if we can help activists all over the world with Tor and end to end encryption?
What if the internet can give a voice to people who never had one?
What if we can find a better way than copyright to compensate people for their creations with restricting sharing and reuse?
What if we can build and online encyclopaedia many orders of magnitude grander in scope than anything that’s gone before?
Let someone else worry about what the grifters are doing to screw us this time.
Let’s see the hackers hack.
Because the people that were in control already figured that what they wanted to use the system for is to buy low and sell high for huge profits, and so it didn't matter if the network didn't perform well for regular commerce. You don't need a lot of TPS if your ideal scenario is to ever make two.