I've been an ardent believer in decentralization since I was a teenager. When I was in high-school, I had heard in some of the tech forums I participated in that something called "Bitcoin" was starting to take off. I even wrote a paper for an English class about Bitcoin in 2014, when it was ~$450. Few understood, despite the arguments of a nerdy teenager, that this would take over the world. Since then, I've been investing, researching, proselytizing, and now building blockchain applications (I love Go!). Despite the enormous success of cryptocurrency/Web3, I believe there is still an entire world of things we can build, decentralized, that ...
Not a joke per se, but an anecdote: I tried to convince my dad to buy Bitcoin in 2014 when it was around $500-600 (he's a controller) and he would always remark that it "has no value since no one accepts it." Recently he let me know that his company is planning to accept crypto as payment for their products (recreational EVs).
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