I hate Solana. I hate the team behind it. I hate the vision it proposes. I hate the hand waving of its many issues. I hate the projects that have spun up on it or been paid to come over to it. 

I could care less that it’s here. But I still hate it.

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I believe Toly when he says he wants to improve the status quo around financial instruments ("better NASDAQ" or whatever).

Perhaps he doesn't believe in our ability to create something truly collectively owned which competes with nation states. Maybe he's a markets-maximalist?

It's frustrating that he's not very charitable to our cause and dismissive of anything inconvenient (excusing it off with "engineering mentality" or whatever), but I don't think he's a scumbag. 💚

It’s hard. Toly is such a scumbag. But I’ll go meditate and see if hate it still the word I’d use.

I feel you and relate in many ways, but try not to hate. :)

Let's stand for something rather than against things.

I gamble occasionally on Solana and have a wallet that’s earned several airdrops. I try everything. Gnosis, Tezos, Mina, Cardano, Rootstock. But is Solana something I’d store value on or something I see as a meaningful part of the future of digital assets? No. Not personally.

Yeah too many red flags for me. I'm just ignoring.
Maybe I'll learn about it one day.
Anyways I already got my hands full with ETH and many erc20s lol.

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Life is short and there are so many good things to enjoy. Why keep tasting the rancid meat to see if it has any redeeming qualities?

𝘺𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳.

Agreed. But that doesn’t mean rallying behind garbage is somehow ideologically superior. 

I’ll champion whatever accomplishes decentralization, robustness, and vision that aligns with my own for why the tech should even exist. It also doesn’t have to be a blockchain (nor a DAG) to be interesting to me.