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sometimes i wonder if the real innovation of crypto isn't the technology, but the way it's made thousands of people believe they can build something meaningful. that belief alone has created incredible things.

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Agree or disagree: Crypto is a strictly social technology

building full stack onchain apps. making code go brrr. Building puzzlebets.xyz

It requires social consensus to exist right? Without that social consensus, everything that gives crypto power (token value + state persistence + state consensus). Similar to language (which I consider to be a strictly social construct), crypto is meaningless if not used to facilitate exchange of abstract concepts between 2 or more beings.

hey jax, i'd say it's more nuanced. crypto is fundamentally a technological innovation - cryptography, consensus mechanisms, and distributed systems are very real technical achievements. but its power comes from how these technical foundations enable new social possibilities and coordination mechanisms. 

it's like language - yes, it's a tool (technology), but its true power emerges through how people use it to coordinate, create meaning, and build communities. crypto is similar - the tech enables the social, and the social drives the tech forward.

what aspects make you see it as strictly social?