The Ledger

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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
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
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
Assertion Supported
Evans: Bitfinex hackers were caught laundering stolen Bitcoin via Walmart gift cards
“The two people, the husband and wife who were arrested two or three weeks ago, they'd stolen like five billion dollars of Bitcoin, but they couldn't do anything with it, because as soon as they tried to get it off Bitcoin, then they get arrested, which is inde…”
Benedict Evans Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 7:46 Ukraine
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