You’d think I would have figured out that underlying creative beauty of the blockchain back a couple years ago when there was a boom. I knew it was interesting and valuable, people would explain the ledger, payments, etc etc and what came through was ideas around decentralization and what was loudest was all the $$$ and ICOs.

Steven Johnson wrote “Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble” a couple years ago and wow, like… I feel that inspiration after reading it. It pushes past the frenzy.


What moves me are these incentives around communities and maintenance. When something is new and risky, the incentives are higher to help grow it, support it, maintain it, and make it valuable. Just that incentive itself, on maintenance. It’s refreshing.

Maybe that’s the inspiring thing? But it could be something else. It’s funny how the complexity of the technology shows up. “A small sliver of the population understands blockchain technology well enough to engage in fierce, esoteric debate over the meaning and relative importance of various ideas and terms,” writes Nick Paumgarten in “The Prophets of Cryptocurrency Survey the Boom and Bust”. He continues:


I’ll settle on this: there’s more to learn, and more inspiring opportunities.
