I was able to chat to Brian about this the other night. I think it’s under appreciated how brave it was to do this on the precipice of multiple fundraising / liquidity events and in the eye of the storm of cancel culture generally.

Kudos to the Coinbase team.

2000-2005 Internet truly was a dirty Berlin aircraft hanger deep house rave

Even early HN ca. 2008 felt a bit like that. But honestly i don't have the feeling that much changed and i've been lurking on HN pretty much since since the beginning as a kid.

Yeah and it's been getting gentrified since.

It sucks that a bunch of nimbys came here and threw everyone fun out.

Hell even pg would get flagged off hn if he said the stuff he used to in the 00s.