drewcoffman
@drewcoffman.eth
i firmly believe that this post is mourning the wrong thing. the problem isn’t spending time in crypto, it’s mistakening the noise for the signal. don’t let the degens and the drama convince you this space is small, when it’s actually the largest canvas tech has ever had OP says crypto feels like toys. toys are how we experiment with anything new. the first airplanes were toys. the first computers were toys. what look like toys now are prototypes for the future rails of governance, finance, civilization. the whole point is that it isn’t finished, and that’s what makes it hard—and worth it. keep building. https://x.com/howdymerry/status/1886079805961253213?s=46
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Zach
@zherring
Reading the OP I commiserate on a couple of levels and I'm concerned that "early" and "toys" are easy excuses for a space that's unwilling to level up. At what point are we not early? At what point are permissionless slot machines not enough to justify the investment? Not answering these questions is a hazard imo.
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drewcoffman
@drewcoffman.eth
i feel like your questions are to a certain extent examples of focusing on the noise — but i also understand and agree we can’t do “social tokens cycle 72” and “token creation platform 803” and expect to one day randomly crack the code
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Zach
@zherring
The noise tends to outweigh the signal both in quantity as well as profitability. I've spent 7 years with friends and family splitting hairs, "no, those aren't real crypto, those are just the grifters, they aren't with me," and now seven years later there're fewer good projects and more grift and man idk maybe it's time to accept I'm the shrinking minority.
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