As AI researcher Francois Chollet says:. If the first part is wrong, the rest of it is automatically wrong.
But the EOS team did see the big problems and the big picture. And yet everything on crypto platforms costs money. You have to see the merchandise before you even consider buying it.
Anything could be behind door number one. EOS was just one of the many projects at Consensus. It was an amazing conference all around, filled with incredible energy and possibility.
Zcash rocketed to new heights as JP Morgan announced adoption of their privacy protocols. Dozens of other coins saw their valuations spike hard. I left the conference drunk on wine and ideas, my head swirling with possibilities. But it was EOS that loomed largest in my imagination. And I was determined to buy into the project as soon as I could get my grubby little hands on their shiny digital coins. The crypto community got too far ahead of itself, drunk on possibility but short on delivery. And the bubble eventually burst. I started to dig deeper into the project and its founders.
Dan Larimer is a legend in the crypto community, having started Bitshares , a decentralized exchange, and Steemit , a social media publishing platform similar to Medium. Just like when you see a resume of someone who bounced around from company to company, it makes you nervous.
As such, I get bored incredibly quickly. I see a problem spinning out before me with a clear solution while others are still baffled and yet explaining to other people endlessly until they see it, dealing with tribal corporate politics, and managing other people becomes tremendously exhausting. But some ideas are worth fighting for, the ideas you really believe in. The greatest coders in the world love solving novel problems, not changing the oil year after year. There was another factor at work here too.
Each of his earlier projects were stepping stones. There is no fully baked library set to download. When you solve one problem you create new problems.
And quite frankly, where the hell would he go now to get a better situation? With a gazillion dollar war chest and a hand picked team at his behest, I would bet all my Bitcoin he sticks around this time. Others noticed it too. It just felt scammy. Token buyers were met with a variable price based on demand at each allocation drop. It was a roll of the dice. If the demand was low that day you might get a deal, grabbing coins at a lower price point then they traded for on the exchange. If the demand skyrocketed you might end up with a worse price. That made you a bag holder unless you wanted to sell the coins for less than they cost you.
Even worse I started to hear rumors from friends who participated in the ICO that the demand always mysteriously seemed to get filled in the closing minutes of every auction.
Every time they thought they might get a deal it slipped away at the last seconds and they suspected something nefarious. I have no idea if that was true or just the illusion of perception. Lots of folks see phantoms and conspiracies in the markets when things go against them but it did leave me worried. And then there was the seemingly endless nature of the ICO. While most crowd funding surges ended after thirty days, the EOS ICO kept going and going, with no cap, meaning the company could continue to raise billions if people kept wanting to give over their hard earned cash, all without releasing a single line of code.
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