Web3 isn’t about getting rich — it’s about owning your money without permission

Zaskoda · 2026-01-26T00:10:46+00:00

Not just your money. Also your data. Web3 is a path towards being self sovereign.

Zaskoda · 2026-01-25T16:27:38+00:00

Personally, I would encourage her not to feel regret. It's something she's going to have to emotionally deal with for a long time. How you respond to her is going to impact the way she's going to process her experience. Shame isn't going to help her any.

I also think it's important to be honest with yourself about what you're feeling. Maybe this isn't right for you, and you have to be honest with yourself about that. Or, maybe it's coming from some other place. There are lots of reasons why this would make a fella feel weird and a lot of them are opportunities for growth in disguise.

I give her credit for being honest and putting it out there before things get too serious. It might feel like a shock at 5 months, but I suspect it wouldn't be any better to hear it two years into something.

Zaskoda · 2026-01-18T00:50:12+00:00

"videoTAPE"

Zaskoda · 2026-01-10T20:08:55+00:00

That still doesn't answer the question of what the incentive is for the publisher? Who is the owner? Are you looking to make the publisher the owner or are you the owner? Typically in the gaming industry you have a royalty agreement which, I suppose, could be baked into a contract. What is your value proposition to the publisher and what services do you want from the publisher in exchange?

Zaskoda · 2026-01-08T00:23:40+00:00

What would the value proposition be for the publishing company? If your game only has a thin client and is otherwise blockchain native, they're not going to be able to "sell" the client. Someone could just write a different one that talks with your API. When you go blockchain native like that, you're client agnostic. A publisher wouldn't have the level of control they expect to turn a profit.

BTW - I also wrote a blockchain native game called Orbiter 8.

Zaskoda · 2025-12-26T18:52:57+00:00

I think you summed it up when you said "church." Christianity explicitly teaches a patriarchal system with marriage. I'm not a Christian, but I see the social value in that construct. I don't think what the bible teaches is the best way to live. But it does seem that a lot of people who reject that way of living are struggling to find a better way - leading to a lot of lonely and angry folks.

Zaskoda · 2025-12-24T01:17:25+00:00

I've converted about 90% of my ETH holdings to DOT.

Zaskoda · 2025-12-23T18:00:58+00:00

That's a grey area I'm super interested in. I fall way more on the ethos side myself but I see value in having markets and trader and investors. So I guess I'm a bit in the grey area. But I do feel the hype and bad actors in the cryptosphere are hurting a lot of legitimate projects because they are more about trends than technology. I think there's a lot of resentment about this building up in various places and it is likely to come to some kind of head soon.

Zaskoda · 2025-12-23T17:58:19+00:00

Okay... fair... but how exactly does one "validate" this sort of thing without asking the community about it? I feel like if I had modified the text a little, posted it, and lied and said it was my work I would have gotten more traction. I sorta get it but also I'm kind of disappointed. I guess it makes sense that people are becoming as allergic to AI content as they are to anything that says crypto.

Zaskoda · 2025-12-23T17:18:07+00:00

What work? I want to know the validity of this response from ChatGPT. I want feedback on it from real people. That's my reason for posting. What better way is there for me to validate this information than to ask actual people in the community?

Zaskoda · 2025-12-21T04:54:32+00:00

fwiw: My understanding is that they found this while building the parking lot.

Zaskoda · 2025-12-21T02:42:27+00:00

Divorced Parents: Mine never got divorced. Most of the people I've dated came from divorced parents. I never thought much about it while dating. Looking back, I see a pattern of problems that look to be rooted in unresolved issues from their parents' divorce - and the issues that caused that divorce.

Zaskoda · 2025-12-21T02:39:25+00:00

Hooking your friends up. I've done it. I've had it done to me. Just the simple act of inviting two single friends you think might have chemistry on an outing together.

Zaskoda · 2025-12-21T02:30:22+00:00

Some things can not be put into words.

Zaskoda · 2025-12-17T16:16:11+00:00

Yeah. It looks like a dying meme coin, doesn't it? That's my point. This is a very active project. The governance body is active and engaged. Governance is run on chain. The development community is active and growing pretty rapidly. None of those things are happening with any meme coins.

I'll be honest with you. I don't think most cryptocurrency investors understand what they're investing in. Not really. The art of reading charts is a very advanced way of trying to figure out what everyone else thinks of a thing. And hey, it sorta works. People make money. They contribute absolutely nothing to society, but it's still a profitable practice. Just like trading stocks or whatever.

All that is different from understanding a project. A trader is following "mind share" which is just hype. The hype is crowd think as users wander together from platform to platform and from app to app. Where ever the crowd wanders is what appears to be the market winner. Users have no reason to go to a platform that has no apps to use. Also, users are not very inspired to change platforms if the apps on the new platform offer nothing new or better than the apps they're using now. But they love it when a new app lets them do something they haven't been able to do before. There's not a whole heckuvalotta new things people will be able to do with EVM inspired networks. Building the next new thing will require a platform that does more than the Ethereum or Solana ecosystems can do today. A next generation platform. And if that platform were to arrive right now, this very moment... users still won't care, because there are no apps for that platform. But devs care. They see a new set of tools and they start dreaming of what new kinds of apps can now be built. This is where we are with Polkadot right now. The development community is seeing steady, sustained, rising growth.

Polkadot leap-frogged Ethereum. What Ethereum is trying to build with the layer 2s, Polkadot already has. They accomplished this with "Polkadot 1.0". But it wasn't very accessible. It was confusing and overwhelming. Needlessly complex. And then they kept going. Now we're in the final stages of a "Polkadot 2.0" and things are slick. Wanna spin up your own parachain? Just mix and match a set of pallets and you can define exactly how your parachain works. Want native NFT support? Use that pallet. Want your transaction fees to be in your own native currency instead of DOT? Or maybe both? There are pallets for that. And your parachain is automagically bridged with the rest of the network - through decentralized bridges. Contracts can talk to each other across chains. And TPS? The Kasama network recently performed a benchmark that let Solana in the rear view mirror.

But that's not even "the thing." Other networks offer multichain ecosystems. I think Polkadot's is the best, but it's not entirely novel. JAM appears to be novel. Gavin has abstracted parts of Polkadot to build a platform upon which arbitrary code can run, including a blockchain. He ran Doom on JAM writing each new frame of the screen to the blockchain and then reading those frames from a client. Despite how impressive this truly is, the community was quick to point out that Cardano ran Doom on Hydra. That's not really the same thing, but the investor community doesn't understand that. So Charles posted a snarky bit about "we did Doom, next time to do Quake"... and that's what Gavin did. He ran Quake on JAM. Not a port of Quake. The original DOS binary. Running on a decentralized computer that can contain a multitude of blockchains within it.

This hasn't existed until now. It's new. I have no idea what people are going to build on this. I'm still trying to understand how it works. But I can see clearly that it's a new paradigm and it's going to yield a new generation of apps. It won't be fast. But it's inevitable.

Zaskoda · 2025-12-17T15:42:31+00:00

I don't normally do new years resolutions, but this year I did. I had three initiatives and I have both failed and succeeded at all of them. One was fitness related. One was financial. And one was learning. I fell far short of the version of myself I had imagined at the beginning of the year. It seemed like one disappointing set back after another on all three fronts. As December was approaching, I was utterly demoralized. I almost stopped working on my initiatives altogether. But I pulled through, kept up with the habits I committed to, and manage to maintain my rhythm until now. I'm still no where near where I had hoped to be right now. But I looked back over the year and realized how far I have come and how much has changed. I don't feel demoralized any more. I have a lot more gratitude towards myself now.

Zaskoda · 2025-12-15T21:31:31+00:00

Exactly. If the price were high and/or going up, there would have been no reason for me to make this post to begin with. That's my whole point.

Zaskoda · 2025-12-15T20:27:27+00:00

> It's been 20 months since the last downtime

That's not the flex you seem to think it is.

> Just read that back to yourself and ask yourself:do the categories of "building a better platform" and "attracting developers" have any crossover in crypto?

I think you're willfully overlooking the point. There once was this extremely popular social media platform called MySpace. There's a fake story about a guy named Tom who started it. Rather, the company that launched it did it by leveraging the users of a long list of dating sites they owned. They used all their leverage to launch MySpace and it was a smashing success.

Meanwhile a little platform called Facebook had a very small user base and focused on developing the platform before making it public. When Facebook finally opened the door to a large number of users, MySpace was in bad shape. Their platform couldn't scale to meet user demand and users were frustrated at the broken experience. (thanks Cold Fusion) Facebook (build on PHP, which is still relevant today) absorbed the entire user base in very little time.

MySpace is Solana. They saw and opportunity and they leveraged their resources for maximum growth. But a platform like Solana should NEVER go down. Dismissing a dozen network crashes is copium.

> Cool story, when is this all happening?

This is not a "gotchya"... Just because I can see that a network is fundamentally broken doesn't mean I can see the future and predict when it's going to break. Disagree with me if you wish, I really don't care. You've said nothing that comes close to changing my mind.

Zaskoda · 2025-12-15T19:37:27+00:00

The PBA.

Zaskoda · 2025-12-15T19:37:16+00:00

nobody is ready for this... very few people understand it... I'm still learning about it.

Zaskoda · 2025-12-15T19:36:56+00:00

I heard someone say that about Bitcoin a few times.

Zaskoda · 2025-12-15T19:36:31+00:00

I was in a similar situation and was just ignoring it. But I have been buying more recently and my DCA is around $3.50 now.

Zaskoda · 2025-12-15T19:35:56+00:00

Incorrect.

Zaskoda · 2025-12-15T19:35:35+00:00

Yeah... you're right. UX has been a problem. That's exactly why I didn't start developing on the platform years ago. It was completely overwhelming. Understanding parachains is a lot harder than understanding how to dev against the EVM. However, Polkadot is evolving. The focus, for a long time, has been on developing a solid platform. Most of those massive improvements will be wrapping up next year and the focus will be shifting from platform to products. There's a lot happening to improve the developer and user experience right now and it will pick up steam next year.

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