The Tinkerbell Griftopia

I find that this article's willingness to frame the crypto debate as "entirely cultural" either dishonest or ignorant. There are real technical concerns that the technology itself isn't capable of scaling the way it's proponents want it to (without causing a climate catastrophe).

> "Information doesn't want to be free anymore"

“Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive....That tension will not go away” - Stuart Brand

Think about the whole quote and NFTs will make more sense to you.

NFT != DRM

go wild, right click and torrent. i'll send you my nft images myself if you want them. the signatures and the economic security of that signature taking place is valuable. there is no scarcity of information in NFTs.

these takes are getting so bad, misunderstanding the point so much im not sure how we get people aligned in the discussion at this point. but in the words of satoshi “If you don’t believe it or don’t get it, I don’t have the time to try to convince you, sorry.”

>But unlike say the eternal emacs/vim war, the divisions on this topic are entirely philosophical and about culture instead of technology.

What? My problem with "crypto assets" is that "blockchains" are outperformed by a System/360 while costing billions of dollars to run and drawing about the same power as all datacenters in the world put together. The fact that I like Star Trek is irrelevant.

Stellar article. It matches a ton of my views. I really appreciate the author for taking the time to follow the industry and keep writing about it. I've been tempted to do the same, but it would be so much work. involved but not only is the space metastasizing at an incredible rate, but even proponents agree that there's a ton of BS. And honestly, it would be terrible for my stress levels to deal with the army of financially motivated proponents.

It's hard to take takes like this seriously when they get the basic premise wrong. It's flowery and cute but its a lot of writing with very little substance.