I didn’t fall for this particular case, but for plenty of others. Possibly related:
Hacker News comments cause the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect for me. Whenever it’s a topic im familiar with most of the comments are condescendingly arrogant and wrong.
Yet when I know nothing about the topic I assume I’m getting high quality knowledge from experts.
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A lot of it might just be the “don’t read, just retweet” attitude that many (including myself) are guilty of
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Interested in the outcome, but my assumption is both can serve as prime examples supporting that theory
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Haven’t really looked into it, but the cryptocurrency used by Signal makes bold claims of being environmentally sustainable: hackernoon.com/mobilecoin-is…
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Agreed, ease of use is the key point. No large-scale adoption has ever been motivated by abstract goals such as increased security or privacy
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So it seems the whole “decentralized” application space is doomed because it can’t survive success with a large user base, since “normal” people don’t care about the benefits enough to not prefer centralized, more convenient, cheaper alternatives
Wrote some notes summarizing my first impressions of web3: moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-fi…
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Yes. Even better when you can trust that some central service will take good care of your private key
I find this to be some of the most damning criticism of the whole web3 idea because it’s clear @moxie is approaching it with an open mind
Wrote some notes summarizing my first impressions of web3: moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-fi…
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