> Your personality can completely change in 10 years.<p>This was kind of a revelation to me a long time ago. When you're 20, you're a totally different person than when you're 10. When you're 30, different than 20. Just like the linked article suggests, you really tend to underestimate how much you're going to change in the future. At 10, you can't really consider how you're going to be when you're 20.
The cool thing about Vitalik’s blog is that it is decentralized.<p>The blog uses decentralized storage (IPFS) and uses a decentralized ENS domain (vitalik.eth).<p>If you use a web3 browser like brave browser vitalik.eth resolves natively in the browser without the need to use the ENS+IPFS (eth.limo) gateway.
Yeah, sorry for my lack of awe at 20 year olds wasting time with crypto and being seen as wunderkind. Now that my skepticism is through the roof with this blog, what exactly is anyone doing with synthetic biology that he mentions that’s interesting at the 20 year old hacker house level?
> When I met Vladimir Putin in 2017, I did not try to arrange the meeting; rather, someone else suggested it, and I pretty much said "ok sure".<p>> Now, five years later, I finally realized that (i) I had been complicit in legitimizing a genocidal dictator, and (ii) within the crypto space too, I no longer had the luxury of sitting back and letting mystical "other people" run the show.<p>Congrats on congratulating yourself on being the Benevolent dictator (in contrast with presumably genocidal dictator) and inventor of your own decentralised financial institution that enabled everything imaginable around money schemes, not matter how average and worst it is compared to regulated traditional banking. How much is you worth by the way ?
The author sums up everything that is wrong with crypto in two sentences:<p>> I was getting excited about every new cryptography protocol, and economics too seemed to me to be part of that broader worldview: it's the mathematical tool for understanding and figuring out how to improve the social world.<p>No, it isn't. This kind of hubris is what hides what Crypto is, which is a game of greater fools and nothing more.