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If someone cares more about what their industry peers think of them than the problems they are solving, they’re a bullshitter. If the idea of being “known” is barometer of their success above user (or reader) success stories, they’re a bullshitter. They are the internet’s equivalent of a reality TV star, taking advantage of the attention economy by... See more

Monetization—is it easy to make money?

For others, though, it takes a bit more product insight, and some might say intuition, to see the ceiling before you bump into it.

"My mind begins to seem like a video game: I can either play it intelligently, learning more in each round, or I can be killed in the same spot by the same monster, again and again."

This was surprising to me. So much work, energy, and time has gone into creating a trustless distributed consensus mechanism, but virtually all clients that wish to access it do so by simply trusting the outputs from Infura and Alchemy without any further verification.

NFTs are a shareable display of our social capital. First, kids buy Fortnite skins online, then moms buy Bored Apes on-chain. Both actions are one in the same. As owners, they allow us to signal wealth, intelligence, and belonging.

Today, virtual worlds mostly take the form of multiplayer online games: Roblox players average nearly 3 hours per day in Roblox; Fortnite has been collectively played for 10.4 million years—about 52x the time that humans have occupied the Earth.