In retrospect, I think that my second criterium was met 16 years ago, right about when I sarcastically told my buddy thanks for the pitch about this bitcoin thing and then didn't look at it for 2.5 years or so. It's been under pressure from time to time, mostly from shitcoiners like Tether or more recently some even more idiotic shit, but what we have today is really amazing, compared to the bitcoin 0.7.2 install I messed with.
It does pain me at times to see the growth of custodial solutions and being challenged by people in the wild explaining to me how much better TRON is than anything that ever existed. But in the end, middlemen be middling and I guess the thing that the AI labs got right is that education works a lot better if you have a stick and a carrot than organically.
In retrospect, I think that my second criterium was met 16 years ago, right about when I sarcastically told my buddy thanks for the pitch about this bitcoin thing and then didn't look at it for 2.5 years or so. It's been under pressure from time to time, mostly from shitcoiners like Tether or more recently some even more idiotic shit, but what we have today is really amazing, compared to the bitcoin 0.7.2 install I messed with.
It does pain me at times to see the growth of custodial solutions and being challenged by people in the wild explaining to me how much better TRON is than anything that ever existed. But in the end, middlemen be middling and I guess the thing that the AI labs got right is that education works a lot better if you have a stick and a carrot than organically.