Ray W

a few thoughts on crypto i have been off the grid the last week and a half, mostly away from the internet arrived back this morning, have been digesting the last few weeks over the last few hours here's what i found: - blockchains still producing blocks - protocols still running autonomously - objects still preserved immutably in the opacity of change, it can be easy to forget blockchains are simply the best digital sandbox on the internet you can just permissionlessly write stuff to them author any protocol, object, artwork, standard upload it to a public database that runs 24/7, around the world and give anyone the ability to own important pieces of what you made to be clear — for any technologist or builder, that alone is pretty special a program that can run forever! with ownership rights immutably secured over a distributed web of machines! but it gets better because if you build your project the right way and with a little luck maybe a network starts to develop around your project just a couple of friends from an old cryptography mailing list to start then a few more people then ten more and because they all love what you’ve made, they all want to participate — even when things aren’t quite perfect so they jump in to help in little ways, or in ways unique to them and maybe the idea is so powerful that the network for your project just keeps growing and growing until millions of regular people all start to see it and all want to own a small piece of it anyway I just want to say, for anyone that needs to hear this i hope you keep making stuff with crypto and writing on blockchains and trying to build a network around your ideas you won’t be able to replicate these features with any other technology stack which makes crypto pretty sweet and also very inevitable