Joe Gerber

it'd be hard for crypto to get much more attention from here the most visible person on earth launched a coin, there's maybe 2-3 people on earth who can match that attention — and this is after polymarket was a headliner for the most visible election on earth kanye is one factor, and my guess is he launches soon after that happens (and tanks within a few), then there's no more "we just need more mainstream retail for adoption bro" everyone has already heard of crypto, to them it's the same thing as a slot machine at worst and sports betting at best — so there will be a new stream of users always coming in for those, but that won't be enough for "the next billion" (a silly term) so then you have the topic of updated regulations the thing with bad regulation is that it hurts non-speculative use cases the most ppl who grift with tokens will do that regardless of the regulatory environment — but ppl who want to build legit businesses will be disproportionately scared but now they have a chance which brings me to: the next year is probably the golden age for non-speculative crypto use cases — combine this with the fact that most new chains (at least in theory) are scalable; there should now be nothing holding back apps from solving real problems at scale that's not to say speculation ever goes away (it won't nor does it need to), but the activation energy required keeps increasing as people become more numb to the dopamine farm