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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.”
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…”
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…”
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…”