Ethereum

5 statements across 4 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 15, 2021 by Benedict Evans · said 14 times in 6 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Nov 15, 2021 bearish
Opinion
Evans: CryptoPunk prices are driven by shallow culture and unrealized Ethereum gains
“The challenge with CryptoPunks or so on is that, The cultural base for that is very, very shallow and very, very recent, and you also, it's very hard to unpick how much of this is somebody that genuinely thinks that thing is worth a million dollars of their mo…”
Benedict Evans Nov 15, 2021 ▶ 29:07 What we know about web 3 so far
Mar 1, 2022 bearish
Assertion Supported
Evans: Running a full MMO on Ethereum is unfeasible
“And of course the Nirvana is everything runs on the chain, but try, try running a MMO, a massively multiplayer online game on Ethereum at like one transaction a second, like good luck.”
Benedict Evans Mar 1, 2022 ▶ 28:17 Talking about crypto
Mar 14, 2022 neutral
Insight
Evans: Crypto Sits at the Peak of Tech's Historical Complexity Curve
“The visible complexity goes up in a kind of a bell curve. And then you reach a point by like, you know, you get GUIs and Windows and Mac and so on that the visible complexity starts going down. Even as though you carry on getting more and more plumbing underne…”
Benedict Evans Mar 14, 2022 ▶ 26:29 The Evolution of networks
Nov 18, 2022 bearish
Opinion
Bitcoin and Ethereum Currently Lack Real Utility
“At the moment we don't really have utility for them other than people building stuff that we hope we'll be able to do stuff with at some point in the future.”
Benedict Evans Nov 18, 2022 ▶ 18:42 The FTX face-palm
Nov 18, 2022 neutral
Insight
Crypto Today Is at the Primitive TCP/IP Stage
“It's as though you open the internet, you get your TCP, it takes you a week to get your TCP IP working, you've found something you can dial up to connect, it's taken your week of work, you've got it working, you open a command line, you ping a known IP address…”
Benedict Evans Nov 18, 2022 ▶ 19:15 The FTX face-palm
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