I was involved in bitcoin in early 2010, so by the time MtGox got hacked, I had already well over a year experience with it, aka the 'honeymoon period' was over.<p>So at that point (Summer 2011), I took a long hard look into the mirror, discussed this with friends, both on- and offline, and everyone was struggling to find real use cases that didn't involve crime. When then, later in 2011, Litecoin and the other alts came on the scene, without any real difference, I left the crypto scene.<p>Now, over 10 years later, the number of real life use cases not involving crime is still scarce. That's a bit embarrassing, if you ask me.<p>(Edit: small correction)
Andreeson is very rich and he wrote Mosaic and Netscape, so he’s smart.<p>But he always seemed kind of full of BS with Opsware and stuff and cashed out by selling to a greater fool, I think HP or something.<p>So I’ve always looked at his offerings and not understood why they are valuable.<p>I never thought he was trying to scam, but this clip seems to be total BS to the extent that they are just cashing in on a more broad set of greater fools.
I want to believe that Web3 can do something more for us but when I hear people evangelize it all the time, scam alarms start ringing. Andreessen speaks too quickly, only in the abstract, and changes points before finishing them. It’s a clever marketing trick that gets the audience to fill in the gaps as it were and leaves no time to consider that nothing of value has actually been said.
The full podcast here:
video:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNl6Cr1k07c" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNl6Cr1k07c</a><p>transcript and audio:
<a href="https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/marc-andreessen/" rel="nofollow">https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/marc-andreessen/</a>