Crypto is the revolutionary idea of decoupling identity, value, and ownership from the hands of the nation-state, and (re)establishing the foundations of consensus reality on bits and software rather than atoms and jurisprudence ('code is law').

It's a deeply radical position.

Crypto is the revolutionary idea of decoupling identity, value, and ownership from the hands of the nation-state, and (re)establishing the foundations of consensus reality on bits and software rather than atoms and jurisprudence ('code is law').

It's a deeply radical position. https://t.co/zOXCwHwhUT

Measuring things at @spindl.

My FID is lower than all but 52 of you.

Much is made about the potential of AI, and no doubt it'll be deeply impactful, but AI can exist alongside the tottering machinery of (late) liberalism. Everyone is fine with building on a sub handful of big model builders, and most AI instantly surrenders to regulation.

Crypto definitionally rejects such an accommodation, and attempts to exist at a level beyond the (now) tired machinery of the liberal state.

Crypto types float radical new politics for that reason, while AI nerfs itself via an 'alignment' discourse that amounts to a surrender.

AI is a sustaining innovation (prolonging the last technological surge cycle)

Crypto is a truly disruptive innovation - it unleashes a new wave that looks radically different from the last one