Ryan Sean Adams

That would suck.

I like technology.

I'm a technologist.

And what I most love about crypto so far is that it's funded a whole bunch of really good technology, like zero-knowledge proofs that Zcash pioneered.

But there's a whole bunch of people, especially in the Ethereum ecosystem, that have taken that very far.

And that's because of crypto funding and organizations.

See what I'm saying?

As opposed to like DARPA and universities and mega corporations, they wouldn't have developed any of that in the last 10 years without crypto.

Yeah, and that's damning it with faint praise, right?

That's like an improved Linux kernel, which is not actually changing the world for the better.

Like I think of it, and by the way, there's a Zcash dat.

It's not directed acyclic graph.

It's a digitalized treasury.

Yes.

It's the Cypherpunk dat.

And I signed on to be an advisor to that organization.

So disclosure.

I think I basically only have two professional roles in crypto nowadays.

And that's my job as chief product officer at Shielded Labs and as an advisor to the Cypherpunk dat.

But I think of those as good things, but only in as much as their means to an end, like improving Wall Street.