Since I first read Satoshi's paper, I have been excited by the possibilities. As a long-time product, marketing, and business guy in the Cybersecurity market, I immediately recognized the public key cryptography underpinnings, but what really intrigued me was the very clever protocol for decentralized operations. It answered key questions like, "where's the money?" and "how do I trust this?"
I'm still not convinced that cryptocurrencies will replace fiat currencies, but I do believe the underlying technology concept is sound and can provide the basis for a decentralized Web3 stack. Indeed, thanks to the early insight and backing from USV, A16z, and others, we are seeing the emergence of Web3 infrastructure and social protocols coming to life.
I have enough scars from living at the Edge of new technology waves to know the journey will not be smooth. As an example, I haven't figured out why my wallet is not playing nice with Farcaster on Ethereum, so my Farcaster is not linked to this blog yet. Oh well, as Teddy Roosevelt once said, "Nothing in this world is... worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty...," so... I will be blogging here on Paragraph now.
