we are definitely getting a big rug at some point here to change the money. gut tells me not this year or next tho. been glaringly obvious data centers are for bitcoin since the get go

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believe this points to a bigger problem id argue is also extractive. Would say a majority of crypto projects use ‘rails’ and ‘infrastructure’ as a cop-out for not being able to produce a product people actually want to use, which is a much harder problem to solve. it’s a form of virtue signaling of the ‘ethos’ of crypto that somehow technical elegance or ‘identifying future needs’ is worth investing in by itself. Robinhood chain is literally nothing and has more users than most other chains. it’s the age-old issue of engineers/technical people not being able to grasp the idea of PMF, and deferring the problem to someone who hopefully builds that on their rails. It’s crossing fingers and hoping they get rich off of someone else’s critical thinking or business acumen. Solana went to ~$140B last cycle because of pumpfun, not the other way around. Pump was a product people actually wanted to use. The ‘long game’ for 90% of projects is cope for hopes and prayers because they see an easy ticket. Most of the people building something people actually want to use will steal that it right from under these ‘rail’ guys because they can and should.

broadly theres two things going on in crypto rn: big players playing the long game of bringing finance onchain, and pumpfun the long game guys aren’t super focused on customer acquisition rn as they’re more focused on what’s needed for the tokenization cycle (legalization, proper rails, etc) that gives pf the leeway to runaway with customer acquisition and shape what onchain is to favor their game. they have the money to do it and will keep doing it until the bigger and better things of the cycle start to play out in the middle you have crypto natives building cool new stuff onchain, but they get overlooked since pf dominates the attention game as soon as the new things of the cycle start to show themselves, theres a lot more interest in the middle and the bigger picture. until then you have this dynamic where the only company trying to acquire new users and shape crypto culture is actively working against what everyone whos been in the space wants

Is there game theory literature about retrocausal effects of players that do not yet exist but are perceived to eventually exist by current players who take actions in anticipation of their eventual existence?

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