drewcoffman
@drewcoffman.eth
the "darkness" is just what emergent coordination looks like when it's happening in real time we're watching market mechanisms collide with governance experiments and automated trustless systems, and it feels wrong if you're used to everything being mediated by Proper Channels. the "3rd world frenetic energy" part is actually based tho. we're seeing truly permissionless global financial systems, and they’re not gonna be built by Chase Bank or whatever recognize when you're just pattern-matching new paradigms to old fears https://x.com/paulskallas/status/1868039766773830079?s=46
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Zach
@zherring
Can you name a time where there felt like a consensus in crypto that would be bad for it financially? Can you imagine a scenario where it would? I can't in either question, and so I can emphasize with pt 1. It's a permeable culture, easy to drift in and out without having to do much to prove anything, so I don't think crypto is spiritually empty as much as a culture uniquely susceptible to mops and psychos (https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths). What does hamper us is the broad consensus that that which is highly valued is likely correct ("would you rather be right? Or rich?" being a common refrain). Because you're able to whitewash grifts with a thin veneer of technobabble, just enough opacity to be plausible, the obvious and stupid ideas get passes far longer than they should (Terra/Luna etc.) which attract more grifters and so on. It's a reflexive problem. Maybe we can grow out of it, but until number go up is the innovation people focus on, I'm concerned.
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drewcoffman
@drewcoffman.eth
i hadn’t heard of mops before but that really does encapsulate a lot of the parts of crypto culture that non-crypto people seem to loathe
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