none of the biggest crypto success stories in the last couple of years are open source (afaict)

this makes total sense imo but quite jarring when compared to earlier crypto protocols

i do think the days of attaching tokens to “public goods” and getting rich off them are over

This is why, paradoxically, I’m almost sympathetic to people who cannot wrap their minds around the “revenue meta.” Not because these people are correct that it’s just a “meta”, they are very wrong and always have been, but because the first 10 years of crypto managed to

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