On Nathan Schneider on the limits of cryptoeconomics

It's easy to say that any application can be done more efficiently with a centralized service, but in practice social coordination problems are very real, and unwillingness to sign onto a system that has even a perception of non-neutrality or ongoing dependence on a third party is real too. And so the centralized and even consortium-based approache... See more

I think a lot of crypto space, maybe because of its roots in cypherpunk culture, tries to reinvent the wheel on things that regular financial, governmental structures have A/B tested for a very long time and produced battle-tested solutions for. And some of these innovations do make sense in a new environment. But many of the changes are trying to ... See more