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Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?

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Re: Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?

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Regarding "unbanked" people who are "anywhere in the world" but have " their smartphone": Cryptocurrency is not only the wrong product, but also in this case a future functionality would be the wrong time. The market gap for that has closed already due to better systems including M-PESA As I mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39857944 The consistently ignorant rhetoric here on HN about this supposed…

Looks like it's not available in my country.

I think that if you read my above comments very closely, I am advancing the idea that the state of the art is not evenly distributed, and so your comment is in agreement with that. And further, I am hinting that looking around widely to what other countries do, rather than being parochial, is a good idea.

Re: Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?

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AML is good, no I don’t. My turn to ask the questions. Is there literally any scenario where you'd accept that maybe crypto isn't actually useful and maybe it is just a big scam? Think about it hard, otherwise you'll waste years of your life in an internet libertarian larp. Bro USDC is multisig'd, it isn't decentralizing anything and it doesn't even need a blockchain except to interact with DeFi.

> AML is good, no I don’t. Kinda crazy how willing you are to let government step all over you under the disguise of AML, when it does jackshit for it. Soon enough you will be convinced that government being able to intercept all communication is good because think of the children! > Is there literally any scenario where you'd accept that maybe crypto isn't actually useful and maybe it is just a big scam? What scenar…

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