Patrick McKenzie

At what day do we compare notes on whether that claim was accurate or not?

Does 2030 seem like a reasonable year or too far?

It seems like reasonable to me.

Can I make a prediction of what is said in 2030?

You can still be early.

Crypto has created like huge amounts of things, but it's not achieved anywhere near its true potential.

Please invest in our new crypto startup.

And let's check back in 2030, folks.

Please, tweet me if I'm wrong in 2030.

I will happily eat crow.

I want to eat crow.

Crypto people are like, how couldn't you be interested in programmable money?

I'm like, I'm interested in programmable money.

Obviously, money is programmable money.

But my friends who are trying to sell me on this since 2010 weren't wrong.

This should totally smash my interest based on what I usually find intellectually edifying.

And

I don't not find crypto intellectually edifying.

I actually think there are some interesting things that have come out of the movement.

But I find a computer built in Minecraft out of redstone to be intellectually edifying, and it's a wonderful educational device for people who don't understand how a CPU works.