seen people feeling down about the state of the industry everything popular is a gambling app or pivoting to try to be a gambling app looks bleak but, as someone trying to build a non-gambling pure crypto use case, I love it I'm competitive, and if people are giving up on the idea that this industry can produce something useful that isn't pure speculation, it means there's more opportunity for the rest of us who haven't given up because there are two possible scenarios: - we invented future money, but it's only ever going to be useful for gambling - we invented future money, and it's most obvious use cases are for gambling, but the most important use cases haven't been discovered yet those new use cases will be legitimately novel and only possible with crypto they're harder to find because you can't just copy+paste existing financial use cases or strap crypto to popular web2 concepts but if they really are out there? useful new ways for humans to organize economically that aren't possible without crypto? then being one of the first people to find one is a massive asymmetric bet worth taking so we do a little gambling