Few seem focused on it anymore, which means that there's probably a bunch of interesting innovations underway. I know that there are some well-informed true believers lurking here. What's new in crypto?
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#2Comments like
heres an actual project I am working on and why the tech matters
usually gets attention.
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#3A lot of the innovation now is happening in scaling
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#4Uhm… cryptography or cryptocurrency?
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#5ZK infra is finally practical for small teams.
EIP- 4844 made L2 fees cheap enough to actually experiment
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#6Uhm… cryptography or cryptocurrency?
I assume cryptocurrency, since OP mentioned "true believers."
There isn't cryptography true-believers, it is just mathematical proofs with sometimes good or bad code wrapping it.
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#7I just left a previous comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48242955
I think they'll be advances in taxation: it'll be simpler, fairer and easier. And that may make a UBI more doable.
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#8Follow up: are we getting more efficient? Are the more energy efficient chains taking off?
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#9Agent payment will be an important development direction for crypto in the future. Compared to traditional fiat payments, digital currencies have some inherent advantages.
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#10Stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets are the only clearly useful things right now.