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Good to see you again, Vinay. You seem just as well-adjusted as last time.
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Molly White Tracks Crypto Scams. It’s Going Just Great
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> not worth supporting Why not? Having open source protocols that compete with PayPal and VISA and aren’t funded and controlled by central states can be a positive thing.
> Why not? Having open source protocols that compete with PayPal and VISA and aren’t funded and controlled by central states can be a positive thing Sure. That isn't what crypto has become. After ten years, it's fair to call it given the amount of fraud, dishonesty and resource misallocation. Again, not saying ban it. Just tax it, regulate it closely, and keep an eye on the folks doing it to make sure they're focussi…
It’s all relative. The tech is still in its infancy, perhaps like AI was a few decades ago. The current landscape of PoS, applied ZKP, rollup sequencers, stablecoins, and smart contracts are all significant improvements on what existed 10 years ago, and much more practical.
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Oh I did Google you, it appears you occasionally end up as third author on a bunch of papers funded by grants that have never been put into any meaningful action, you "run" a crypto startup that seems to have no actual employees or users or momentum, you were involved in the ethereum launch but now exaggerate your role, and finally there are frequent examples of you behaving inappropriately as a response to someone l…
Not very good at the google are we.
Also remember much of my time was in defense thinktanks. Not everything that gets written gets published.
For example a good deal of my input on the UK RCDS “Global Cyber Game” report didn’t make it into the unclass version. Likewise a lot of my work for the US office of the secretary of defense is not particularly well known.
I’ve been places. I’ve done things. The fact you don’t seem to understand how to read the runes is your limitation, not my track record.
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I'm curious what you're trying to get at here, and your intent for posting this. Can you elaborate?
Sure, of course. I wanted to show that Molly White doesn’t seem to be open to a discussion about the broader issues, and her blog is certainly very one-sided, which I actually appreciate (I love one sided stuff, because it tends to go out of its way to find the best arguments for its side, as long as you balance it with the other side). We are in a unique position to share our experience with her. We spent years quie…
Engagement is not always easy. You've had other public figures, but they want to be public figures. There could be a myriad of reasons for her turning you down from not caring, being busy, not liking you personally, not wanting to be more public than she already is. That she has posted something about the topic is not a compelling argument that she must take it further. I think you posting about it and posting the email was disrespectful. Although it has given us some insight into your mind.
Re: Molly White Tracks Crypto Scams. It’s Going Just Great
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> Why not? Having open source protocols that compete with PayPal and VISA and aren’t funded and controlled by central states can be a positive thing Sure. That isn't what crypto has become. After ten years, it's fair to call it given the amount of fraud, dishonesty and resource misallocation. Again, not saying ban it. Just tax it, regulate it closely, and keep an eye on the folks doing it to make sure they're focussi…
It’s all relative. The tech is still in its infancy, perhaps like AI was a few decades ago. The current landscape of PoS, applied ZKP, rollup sequencers, stablecoins, and smart contracts are all significant improvements on what existed 10 years ago, and much more practical.
> current landscape of PoS, applied ZKP, rollup sequencers, stablecoins, and smart contracts are all significant improvements on what existed 10 years ago, and much more practical.
To what practical end?
I think exploration should continue. But in the academic, not product, space. Crypto has the potential to be toxic. Licensing regimes for potentially-toxic products is highly precedented.
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How many times is this guy going to smear this thread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36129090 We get it you have a beef, this isn't the place for it. Sort of amazing how little self restraint "CEOs" have these days.
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Yes, let's compare crypto to the Internet.
Bitcoin (i.e. crypto ubiquity) is 14 years old.
Equivalent Internet ubiquity was circa 1996, so let's say its 14-year equivalent is 2010.
Does crypto of today look like the Internet did in 2010, in terms of adoption, support, platform, infrastructure?
No.
The reality is that crypto is a neat value instrument. Nothing more.
P.S. in my years of trying to persuade people in a discussion, I have found that overwhelming them with information only serves to make me appear insecure, ultimately weakening my argument. In my experience.
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Oh I did Google you, it appears you occasionally end up as third author on a bunch of papers funded by grants that have never been put into any meaningful action, you "run" a crypto startup that seems to have no actual employees or users or momentum, you were involved in the ethereum launch but now exaggerate your role, and finally there are frequent examples of you behaving inappropriately as a response to someone l…
Not very good at the google are we. Also remember much of my time was in defense thinktanks. Not everything that gets written gets published. For example a good deal of my input on the UK RCDS “Global Cyber Game” report didn’t make it into the unclass version. Likewise a lot of my work for the US office of the secretary of defense is not particularly well known. I’ve been places. I’ve done things. The fact you don’t…
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Re: Molly White Tracks Crypto Scams. It’s Going Just Great
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Sure, of course. I wanted to show that Molly White doesn’t seem to be open to a discussion about the broader issues, and her blog is certainly very one-sided, which I actually appreciate (I love one sided stuff, because it tends to go out of its way to find the best arguments for its side, as long as you balance it with the other side). We are in a unique position to share our experience with her. We spent years quie…
Engagement is not always easy. You've had other public figures, but they want to be public figures. There could be a myriad of reasons for her turning you down from not caring, being busy, not liking you personally, not wanting to be more public than she already is. That she has posted something about the topic is not a compelling argument that she must take it further. I think you posting about it and posting the em…
I agree, and I could be wrong. After all, there can be a myriad of reasons for why I would want to have her on the show yet people on HN assume it is out of my desire to somehow become famous or advertise my coin or do a scam. They can’t imagine someone being genuinely in it for the tech and improving people’s lives. Or maybe they say those assumptions to “fit in” with what’s cool on HN right now. In any case, given how totally off base and provably wrong most ad-hominem comments here have been about my motivations, I would say the “insight into my mind” is completely off, and your assessment of how insightful the insight was, should be reevaluated.
She didn’t “just post something”. She literally runs a blog where that is all she posts.
It is reasonable to reach out to someone running a systematically anti-zionist blog and invite them to discuss things at any time of their convenience. They are doing the equivalent of standing on a street corner with a megaphone, for all the public to hear their thoughts, so of course they should expect someone to politely approach them and engage them.