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Noah Bragg 🐟
@nbragg
What made crypto click for you?
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Noah Bragg 🐟
@nbragg
For me it was seeing that there was demand for things that were built on top of the blockchain. NFTs in 2020. Seeing this opened up a ton of possibilities of what this tech could do.
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Shane Glynn
@cno
I was a Washington Mutual customer in 2008.
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
1. In 2018, having more than one Chinese billionaire request to pay my edu company in BTC bc they couldn’t clear >$50K/yr from state-run banks. 2. In 2019, realizing that both edges of US political spectrum would love similar chance to gatekeep our financial institutions. Crypto = credible digital ownership.
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kenny 🎩
@kenny
A random person that tipped me BTC on reddit + Andreas Antonopoulos vids
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Jackson 🎩🍖🐈‍⬛
@jacks0n
Replace guns with math
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Corbin Page 👑🎩
@corbin.eth
npm -i trufflesuite Sending value over the internet in one line of JavaScript. 🤯
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Yash Karthik
@yashkarthik
payable(address).call{value: 1 ether}(""); Sending money like it's some builtin function call !!
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Ayush
@ayushm.eth
PoW mechanism. Had spent a couple months trying to understand the btc white-paper in vain, all explainers talked of some kind of "voting" in the abstract. The first time I understood how voting actually works (building on top *is* the vote) it was too elegant!
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Hexidethmal 🟪
@hexidethmal
Sending my first BTC transaction and knowing there was no third party involved. Pure magic.
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eunika🍒
@eunika.eth
The idea of self auditing ledger and learning the history of ledgers in general and how rarely how we record transactions changed and when it did it lead to a massive economic shift throughout the history
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Jason — 🤚🎩🍖🔵 ↑
@jachian
As a casual, I’m still looking for it to click
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Boris Mann
@boris
In 2016, inspired by the shared, backend as a service with built in identity, compute, and payment. Bought some ETH from Coinbase so that I could pay to deploy some custom contracts. Coming from an open source 1.0 background, shared code -> shared protocols -> shared infra makes a lot of sense.
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CBobRobison
@cr
Bitcoin whitepaper 2011. Reading the Gawker article, seeing the crude early marketplaces emerge, installing nodes on a fleet of my university's computers.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Permissionless public blockchain is new type of computer.
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Caden
@cbxm
blockchains as credibly neutral code execution owning digital assets again, like when we had MP3s, instead of buying a movie on YouTube where Google can take it away if they want transparent ledgers solving the double spend problem and guaranteeing honest accounting composable and interoperable primitives
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Matthew
@matthew
connecting the dots that ethereum is just like venmo—it’s a social network. venmo won bc it turns out people will give up a little privacy in exchange for seeing who their friends are sending money to, bc it’s a proxy for who they’re spending time with. that’s why i think eth will dominate.
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Tomu
@tomu.eth
2017 having ownership over my assets. much more now with content.
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manansh ❄️
@manansh
this ep https://spotify.link/G9jhU3Pjjyb
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0xl0wlevelcr0w
@l0wlevelcr0w
I bought weed in like 2018 from a dispensary, and their payment system used litecoin to process a credit card.
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