2024 is the year TV went quiet.
A few years ago, there was an easy, healthy overlap between the kind of television beloved by those who talk about TV as professionals and the kind beloved by those who talk about TV as enthusiastic amateurs. TV seemed to abound with shows that both racked up high scores on Metacritic and had highly engaged fanbases. When new episodes dropped, fans and critics alike would turn up on Twitter to discuss their faves: Succession and Schitt’s Creek and Ted Lasso and Game of Thrones and on and on.
You were gathering around the digital water cooler, and you were doing it with a show that everyone agreed was more than just a guilty pleasure. It was art. Yet somehow, without anyone quite noticing it had happened, the TV shows we watch like that seem to have vanished.
There’s still good TV out there (Abbott Elementary, Somebody Somewhere, the recently completed Reservation Dogs), and there are still shows that lots of people watch and talk about (Bridgerton, mostly), but the overlap in the Venn diagram of “critical consensus hits” and “watercooler discourse bait” is getting smaller and smaller. At this point, all that’s really occupying the niche is The Bear.
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Keep stacking sats, we are going to make it.
All layer two designs suffer the same problem.
Fundamentally, transacting off-chain is going to be beneath “economic feasibility (if questioned)” for the median user.
Attempts to build larger coin pools suffer from exit-ability and consensus problems (how do people agree on the state of the L2 accounts to consider it valid?). I don’t expect this to ever change, no matter what new primitives get forked in or protocols for “sharing utxos” get invented.
Choosing fedimints is deciding on one set of tradeoffs (no supply auditability, risk of jurisdictional kyc ban hammer for federation withdrawals) — every choice has different drawbacks. There is literally no “best” solution. Saying you’ve found one without enumerating the tradeoffs isnt very useful imo for helping people understand the problem space.
The Network State by Balaji is on tap for me this weekend
Grilled delicious ribeyes from K&C Cattle via Beef Initiative for the family last night. They produce the best steaks I've ever had.
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I think the predictability could be gamed, which is probably why the randomness was introduced to begin with. If you have certain strategies to game the system, it’s inherently a gamble if you don’t know which reward type is going to be chosen on a given day.
I trust k00b and co to find the right balance, I just wanted to share a suggestion.