Mariano Sorgente (mar)

Product market fit is when your product is so useful to the customer, that they will put up with bugs, missing features, and performance issues, to use it. (Credit to Avichal)

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It’s easy to forget that crypto is a technology that can bring equal access to financial systems across the world. Why should only people in certain countries with IDs and bank accounts be allowed to transact voluntarily with each other?

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State channel networks (like lightning network) are a great fit for some use cases, such as micropayments, trustless HFT trading, 2 player games, or micropayments. However, rollups are much better for other use cases, like Dexes, DAOs (contract with >2 parties like games), AMMs, remittances, or B2B payments.

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Great point. the last two gold cycles had 6-8 years of no new ATHs.

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AMMs are much more convenient than atomic swaps, since you don't have to find an exact match for your trade. You are trading against a liquid pool that will always take the opposite side of your trade. However, atomic swaps can work trustlessly cross chain, while AMMs can't.

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It’s extremely tempting to add more features to your blockchain / smart contract, to prevent attack X or to improve performance. However, this is often a bad idea. The more complexity you add to your system, the higher the chances that something will go wrong, and the greater...

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like Infura/Alchemy, you can query a random node to ask for data, and validate that the data is hashed into the blockchain. More nodes means more users can do this (aka running a light client). Usually the performance is significantly worse than the centralized providers though.

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