There's something deeply poetic about using modern engineering knowledge to breathe new life into the warm, fuzzy glow of an analog CRT.

This is really cool, thanks for surfacing.

Going to be so awesome when we have native crypto rails live in game for mmorpgs.

Biggest update I see is that he thinks AI 2027 is actually going to happen.

Build out distribution first and generate network effects.

This piece totally misreads the temperament of actual builders imo. The author confuses a malicious will to power with a genuine, if sometimes naive, optimism that code/crypto can solve human coordination problems.

I think both things can be true simultaneously. Like in the Russian Revolution, there can be a mass of people motivated by a sincere, if naive, optimism in a new way to organize society, but they can get used by people like Lenin and Stalin who were primarily motivated by their thirst for power.

No idea why you're getting downvoted. That's exactly how it played out. Though the "mass of people" rapidly lost their naivete.

Found this short story on Openclaw to be relevant:

https://x.com/gf_256/status/2018844976486945112

Part of the reason why I come to HN is that conversations like these still happen.

I appreciate your response! It’s nice to see the impact of technology from people actually there on the ground.

Too easy to forget that there are ~10 billion people in the world. I live in the US, and it always gives me awe when I realize we represent <5% of humanity.

Solana does everything this L1 purports to be able to do by the way, and better. You can also actually use it today!

Good luck to Stripe though. Building the network effects necessary for an L1 is very difficult.