Date: January 22nd, 2018 4:17 PM
Author: amber toilet seat idiot
i think the current protocols are flawed enough that there’s room for new entrants. this explains the big interest in cardano and tezos no?
the bigger issues with this is it probably doesn’t account for the impact of mining costs coming down and gpu tech improving. if protocol tokens go up like he predicts there will be massive interest in mining the fuck out of coins until protocol tokens equal the marginal cost of mining them. at least under the current PoW systems. am i misunderstanding how ethereum’s economics work vis-à-vis the gas price mechanism?
also, it assumes that people will want to store substantial value in protocol tokens which may not have much liquidity, particularly if atomic swaps make it easier to jump from bitcoin/some other accepted store of value coin to protocol tokens as needed.
overall not sure how much i like this argument but it’s basically the bull case for ethereum
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3867568&forum_id=7#35211601)