I don't have vitriol towards the tech, just much of the "community" around it I have some vague hope that it can be reframed with a new civic ethic that gets back to the principles that interested me in the first place - instead of doomsdayism, hyper-financialization & get rich quick schemes
yeah sigh, there's a reason the IETF exists, I'm sick of reading insane unvetted crypto whitepapers
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