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 no longer the innovation people focus on, I'm concerned.
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Zach
@zherring
What it looks like from the outside isn't great and it's due mostly to non-aligned sociopaths. https://x.com/surfcoderepeat/status/1869776260165181584
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