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Migrated to Gemini recently. Much happier.


I'm curious, what big pluses have you found on Gemini vs. Coinbase?


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You know that California bails out the majority of the rust belt indirectly via State taxes, right? Curious how you consider that in the equation.


Very close minded on crypto, aren't ya?


I tend to be closed minded towards scams, yes.


MakerDAO.


A useful product. It’s a stablecoin. Your wallet is full of them already.


...a stablecoin not tied to any major fiat currency with over $600MM of value locked in the contract. That's an extremely successful product by any definition.


value locked inside is not a metric of success. By that metric Bank of America is thousands of times more successful, with 1.081 trillion dollars locked in.


Does Bank of America have a stablecoin not tied to any major fiat currency with over $600MM of value locked in the contract? (Hint: no, no they do not.)


You will just move the goalposts forever, your mind is closed.


Name one then, don't argue about his mindset, answer the question with facts


Bruh, I named one above.



Most of these are primarily investment vehicles.

The only one that I'd consider an exception is BAT, and I'm still not convinced that it isn't a complex fraud scheme against web advertisers.


For a while it was a complex fraud scheme against web authors, until they were busted on their "seek forgiveness" business plan. https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/01/13/brave-web-br...


That's purely an investment vehicle, not a useful product.


People are using it. By definition it is useful.


Horribly written article -- doesn't go into any detail about the proposal, uses anecdotal data, and author is extremely biased. Seems like the author has an axe to grind. The proposal from Peirce is novel and much superior to the current SAFT framework; The SEC proposal is definitely worth a read.


Anything in particular you disagree with or think is an unfair characterization? It all seemed right to me.


You don't think it's a bit biased...?

> "The field was literally composed of BS."

> "I think I’ve literally never seen an ICO white paper idea that wasn’t palpable nonsense."


That’s all fair because crypto is a solution in search of a problem space. When all you’ve got is a bicycle you’re going to try and ride that bad boy everywhere even if it’s not at all appropriate. Blockchain folks are enamored by the technology and have no concept of the problems they’re trying to solve with it so naturally fail.


This is awesome for the DeFi community. Glad to have a trusted source to aggregate liquidity from. Seems like liquidity aggregation will be commoditized on a long enough time horizon (think in terms of Plaid/Stripe positioning in legacy finance) and 0x is the first one to position themselves at the top of the funnel.


0x is seriously the best project in the crypto space right now.


What’s the bar for that? Not having actually scammed anyone elsewhere? Crypto is a sewage dump.


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Better title would be "Monorepos don't fit with my particular use case."


I strongly agree. I hate this style of blog post.

Telling people what they should or should not do is generally absurd. Every situation is unique and you can't possibly know another project's requirements or acceptable trade-offs.

A better approach, in my opinion, is "Here's what we did and why". The author clearly has experience in the area. Great! Tell me about your problems. Tell me about your attempted solutions and what did or did not work. Tell me what you wish you had done! I'd love to use knowledge of your situation to inform my own decision making.

But don't be surprised if my circumstances are different and lead me to prefer different trade-offs and choose a different solution. That doesn't make me a zealot or an idiot.


Isn't your own post telling people what they should and should not do (specifically on how to give advice)?


The irony wasn't lost on me. It's a fine line. Let me try a slightly different approach.

When I blog I've had much better luck telling people "here's what I did and why". I don't know your circumstances and can't tell you how to solve your problems. You may need to choose different trade-offs than I did. With that said, here is my problem, how I solved it, and what I learned along the way. Hopefully you can learn from my experiences and make a more informed decision for how to handle problems you may encounter.


I disagree. The thesis statement repeated several times throughout is "Monorepos don't scale in exactly the same ways that polyrepos don't scale, the tools to solve the scaling problems are the exact same except monorepos need more of them and encourage bad habits along the way."

You may disagree with that thesis, but it definitely seems to cover more than one use case.


...the author's title is literally "monorepos: please don't!"


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