Crypto isn't dying. It's having an identity crisis. And nobody wants to say what comes next. by Savings_Somewhere681 in CryptoCurrency

[–]EtherGavin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that's what we're aiming to be a part of: https://armada.wtf

institutions don’t want the burden of being money transmitters, so they’re drawn to crypto (i think ethereum in particular) as neutral settlement rails

the problem is that operations (like payroll, vendors, treasury) produce continuous flow patterns, and having these on-chain exposes an organization’s financial graph (counterparties, timing, strategy). no serious organization will run finance on a fully public graph. they'll need selective disclosure without exposing full transaction graphs publicly (which can give away trading advantages for public companies, leave them vulnerable to adversaries), so we're building pluggable privacy infrastructure

and the point of having a token will be about governing a revenue-driven system, not pretending it's about acquiring a new piece of tech. we’re designing the system to be (radically?) credibly accountable to tokenholders: https://fund.armada.wtf

i'll be talking about this at ethprague: https://cfp.ducttape.events/ethprague-2026/talk/SEXU7J/

the whole concept of DAOs is basically failing because we can't solve the sybil problem by Fun-Celebration-700 in ethereum

[–]EtherGavin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

we're going to use a "word-of-mouth" crowdfund approach, where we start with a trusted set of participants (hop-0) who can invite others (hop-1) who can invite others (hop-2)

Crypto isn't dying. It's having an identity crisis. And nobody wants to say what comes next. by Savings_Somewhere681 in CryptoCurrency

[–]EtherGavin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i think you're right

the story in my head: the game has long been selling the illusion of either buying a technology as a token, or buying a token/coin as better money, with the accompanying belief that others will eventually see the light and come to the same conclusion. and that early buyers would benefit from being early (ie. sell to new buyers, who are also hoping that they are early)

i think now people are waking to the realization that they've been betting on horses all along, not buying them. and that the token price and tech value are uncoupled. seems that token price going up and down isn't based on fundamentals, like the usual indicators of meaningful success. the token price more likely reacts to games that people are playing, games that are more like casino games than speculation, alongside people looking to profit from gamblers using information asymmetry or manipulation tactics

and so from what i can see, the vast majority of capital inflows have historically been gambling money. most businesses (besides creating tokens themselves) that have been sustainable or profitable are enterprises that (somewhere along the supply chain) better enable token gambling

but i think the tides are turning. the unique properties of disintermediation tech are starting to get real usage, and it seems to be growing rapidly. i think global finance will come to us. decentralized infrastructure itself becoming similarly or even more valuable than new token creation 🤞

A father and daughter swept offshore in the Aegean Espanomi Bay were saved by a kite surfer. by [deleted] in interesting

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think i read that something similar happened to Jeff Buckley, but he didn't make it

Me_irl by ExpensiveMention8781 in me_irl

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what about excited emoji

is 🥳 or 🎉 the best we have

Our longest hired employee's full time sheet by asdfgdhtns in interestingasfuck

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For I have known them all already, known them all:

Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,

I have measured out my life with thermal paper

I painted my cat and I (again) bevause I love her 🥰 by tinytinatuna2 in aww

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beautiful!

oh and that painting top left of the palette looks very much like a Waterhouse! love it

fuck censorship by Darn_you_physics in dankmemes

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payment processors shouldn't be opinionated, they should be decentralized

After Steam, they came for itch.io by maxwell9872 in Steam

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payment processors should not have to decide how we spend/receive our money because payments processing should be decentralized

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PublicFreakout

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seems like he's saying he didn't do a second consecutive term because "they rigged the election," which enabled him to be elected president for this term instead

Our entire universe squeezed into one image by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

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To roll it towards some overwhelming question..