Blockchain tech is much hyped up. Blockchain as a buzzword or as a technical implementation is used in order to attract money from every source. In 99% of the cases there is no need to have a blockchain or a tradeable public token in the first place.
True!! Just be careful to conclude (or to imply) that the concept is not really disruptive, because it is.
All that dapp talk for things that really do not need to be decentralized. You can dapp something and pick up 100 million in a week or you can make regular software and beg for money everywhere. Look at the bitcoin uncensored video with the Tezos guy. Sweating like an idiot not being able to come up with 1 single viable usecase....and what was the ICO?? 250 million???
LOL!!! I can't believe people put that kind of money just because of the name "Tim Drapper", basically that was it. Anyone reading that WP would realize there is lots vague statements and empty promises such as: bitcoin can't scale and ethereum fucked up in dao, therefore tezos is the future because tezos can do all of that. And what about they buying sovereign land if they cap what they capped now, or starting a bank business? I think these parts of their WP passed unnoticed.
On a last note: smart contracts are hyped but their potential is all real.
The direction of the market does not shape my thoughts it's the bullshit machine, just like in the dotcom bubble, that surrounds and frames blockchain as the next big revolution that shapes my thoughts about it. It's full of empty promises and fairytail usescases that will never lift of. 99% of the coins are directionless and pointless scams without even having a working usecase that solves a real world problem.
Not true. DAO is a very desired kind of organization if we consider how many people worldwide are excluded from the economy. Just imagine a world where anyone can have a share in a company, regardless the size or location of it, and receive dividends without any trickery, dilution, etc. That's just one use case.
Even a fanatic like Vitalik is worried about that. The irrational boom in markets do not validate the legitimacy and useability of a coin or platform, it merely underlines the lack of knowledge and lack of rational thought of the people throwing money at this. Blinded by the bitcoin story, inherently afraid to miss the golden ticket. And sure...I bought all that crap in the beginning. But once you start to educate yourself instead of looking at a graph all day and parot the blockchain profets it becomes clear quite fast what kind of inflated hype this is.
As said. Tulips and madness everywhere.....and a lot of blockchain profets preaching blockchain as a miracle to fill their own pockets. Tulips were useless in the end and so 99% of the coins will be. The ponzi need to be fed new liquidity and the latter is not around the corner. There will also be no mass adoption due to the lack of a usecase for the mass.
That said. It's an ideal time to earn money from people believing all this crap...
Agreed. But blocking crowd-sales to happen would be the same as curing a broken finger by chopping off the whole arm. By your own line of reasoning, the fomo surrounding ICOs also do not prove that all companies are bad or that the idea itself is bad (the same way it does not validate the company or the process of crowdfunding.)