mental note: never work for a bank if you don't want to be ostracized by crypto community. even if it frees you to work on crypto full-time afterwards.
It's one thing to work for a bank...and quite another to work for criminal enterprises that pose as "banks" because it gets them closest to the centralization of power they need to be above the law. Goldman Sachs is one of the largest of these institutions and the fact that anyone from GS is a part of Ethereum should call them into question.
Wow really? GS has 30,000 employees, you're saying they should all have quit for moral reasons by now right? So when someone finally does you blacklist them and don't try to work with them...
Should I stop trying to recruit my friends from any big banks or hedge funds? Too late, they've joined the dark side and their programming and mathematics skills have become CORRUPT by the illuminati!
I'm suggesting that anyone intelligent enough to work for an institution with Goldman's track record is also intelligent enough to know what they are signing onto. For this reason, they are either incapable of seeing the big picture and question the "dark side" of their institute's actions and naive enough to believe what they are doing is truly for the greater public good, or they are complicit in the crimes themselves. Noted, it is not always easy to see what is going on behind the scenes but once the 2008 crisis occurred EVERY employee should have started asking some damn questions.
As far as your point to working with them...I suppose they COULD be insiders who would like to help society overcome the crimes of their old employers--but I'm sure that would have been part of their "headlines" campaign if it
had happened. On top of that, comments like "specialized ASICs", "Oil to bitcoins Gold", the choice of logo...and Hosk leaving his first "boy genius" (Dan) behind and picking up a NEW "boy genius" (Vitalik)...any of these by themselves, ok--but all of them together? Come on man...and I don't care if it brings ostracism to ask these questions because the stakes are
high.
Once again Nikolai, you are no dummy, but you are sorely mistaking Goldman Sachs for a real "bank". Banks and Hedgefunds are not evil...in fact most of them serve vital roles in the economy. But anyone who does even a little research into the "too big to fail"
banks will see they are not in any way performing functions that are in the public good. What I suggest is that all the brilliant people working for these institutions have the means of
actually helping the world and making far more money if they bypass the system that has been
proven to be corrupt. Maybe this was not the case before cryptocurrency, but now it is.
If Ethereum REALLY cared to subscribe to the tenets of crypto (why Satoshi made bitcoin in the first place), they would be looking deeply at what Dan is doing and trying to build upon it...or find an alternative that accomplishes the same effect. Instead they want specialized frigging ASICs and GS ties.
Just for a little taste of what i'm talking about here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogc-LRWByhY@Domsch,
My point is not that "we are better". If you pay attention to these things it is clear that Hoskinson in every way implies this--not I. I simply call this "bullshit" out. And yes, you are right--Some things are subjective, but international crimes against humanity are not one of them--and I for one would not invest in bitShares if they were tying themselves to groups like these.
Do I want these techs to work together? Yes... but all this shit adds up to--nothing? come on bro...yeh, I'm sure those fellas in the board meetings talked about in the video above "have no clue" what's going on in the crypto-currency scene. In fact, I am sure it's "bullshit" that they would
ever attempt to coop this absolutely wonderful technology to make sure
they secure the first-mover's advantage when this market becomes massively adopted. Contrary to your point about me working based on my investment (Adam Levine has done the same), I am amply invested in NXT, Peercoin/Primecoin, Ultracoin and Counterparty. I invest in projects whose founders seem to be working toward what (I perceive) as the intent of crypto in general; I do not invest in projects that I think would turn our world, once again, toward a more robust version of what we have today.
I remember reading how many people thought the internet was incorruptible when it first began. I remember reading people making these exact same statements you make toward me regarding NSA spying and a number of other malevolent forces at work on the internet. "this is a wasted conversation topic" is easy...Look at what we have today. News flash...sometimes progress needs to be stunted so we can ask ourselves tough questions--which is precisely what
Bytemaster did before coming up with DPOS for christ's blessed sake man!
Sorry for offending you Domsch. I have respect for you man and appreciate everything you are doing...but it is precisely when a way of thinking becomes unpopular that we should look at it a little more closely.