I hope I come across as fair here, but I should start by saying I don't believe in the whole idol worshiping thing most people fall into when it comes to crypto. The creators of these tokens, starting from Satoshi (if he's even real, or one guy at that) are human or humans, and as such they are flawed and motivated by the same things as the rest of us.
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All that being said, I think the almost cultist reverence in the space, and the particular way some of the leaders in the space tend to communicate, actually confuse people, or better said, people read whatever they want from their posts.
Probably the best example of someone who is constantly "interpreted" in all different ways must be Dan Larimer, known in the crypto space as bytemaster7. The creator of Bitshares, Steem (now Hive) and EOS, has been around for a long time, and even though his main gig is development, he's a darn good writer and author.
This is not to say I agree with everything he says, but that his points are worth considering and that more often than not they require some brain power to be processed. This, however, does not make him exempt from "being flawed", like you or me, for that matter.
In my opinion the misplaced expectations is what keeps on making everyone upset about his ways. In simpler terms, Dan is expected to work for the betterment of man kind, and not worry about making money for himself.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think he's been saying otherwise since the beginning.
If I'm not being clear, let me pose the following questions: Why did Dan "abandon" Bitshares? Why did he "abandon" Steem? Why did he now "abandon" EOS?
Now as you ponder on the reasons, and as you try to come up with something deep and somewhat epic, read again his tweet.
Unresolved Dichotomy
It seems extremely difficult to balance it all. How to make a project that allows people to build businesses on top of, while at the same remaining relevant and needed by said project to keep on making the benjamins.
This might be upsetting to a few, but it's not unreasonable at all. Regardless of how you slice the cake, people want to get paid, and the size of these projects make sure that the cake partitioning is among a sizable team.
But if you read the replies
If you dig into what Dan usually says and what his followers understand, the disconnect is not only apparent but quite painful.
Are we about to moon? Some might say. Oh wow, Dan is predicting a $25 EOS! Others exclaim and I can't help but to face palm through it all.
Will Dan move on to the next project? Well, I don't know when. Since quitting his position as CTO he's been somewhat quiet, but I would not be surprised if soon an announcement was made, and guess what.
Good for him... “It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
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Yes, he is building another social media environment, that is more decentralized. I've made an article some weeks ago about it. It will in theory be bo blockchain anymore and might not be a crypto related to it. In some ways it makes sense as people can delete by their own content.
Let's see..
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thats very interesting, I had no clue. I'll try to follow up on that. Would it be fair to say Voice is a complete failure?
looks like it is. at least from his point of view. because he is now talking about an app that has no tokenomics and has nothing to do with KYC.
If a person promised not to abandon a project but then did too quickly, without enough notice, like out of the blue, that is crazy.
I'm not going to say Dan Larimer does do things he should not do because I don't really know all the details, reasons, excuses, motives, etc.
But I can say its dangerous to give people that kind of first impression of giving up kind of thing, from the outside looking in, it looks too risky to do what Dan did.
My advice is to try to stick around if possible, try not to always abandon projects too quickly, too all of a sudden without warning until projects go hot or until they die out off.
Like, at least try to sell it to Disney for 2 billion dollars like George Lucas did with Star Wars. Just kidding, that's an example of what not to do.
Better example, at least find people to replace you before taking off.
I'm sure there's that... but, he's stated every single time he's jumped ship (afaik) that he's doing so due to the lack of funding.
It could be a chicken/egg situation, but... Who knows!
No doubt he does want to leave the world a better one that he was born in, but he's not idealistic enough to ignore reality.
To play Devil's advocate, didn't we all leave Steem and Steemit?
The answer would probably be no, technically Tron Overlord Justin Sun stole Steem from us in a sense. So we had to rebrand the fork of Steem which in a sense is still the very heart and soul of Steem.
Well, Hive is Steem 2.0 in many ways.
There is no reason why Dan Larimer couldn't stick around. Why in the world would he leave Hive? What in the world is more important than Hive?
I'm not on here for the money. I'm here for archiving my work, for communicating with people.
Likewise, people can still be here for reasons other than just money related. I no longer support Steem and yet I still post onto Steem. See, the thing is you can be on something and still not support it.
I hate Facebook but I am on Facebook everyday. I say that to say it doesn't matter how Dan feels about Hive, Steem, Bitcoin, the dollar, etc. What really matters is going to where the people are.
Also, does Dan keep a blog on another website? If Dan has a blog, he is making a mistake of not having the blog on Hive. I copy and paste my daily blog posts onto different blockchains just in case if one were to die, I'd still have a backup.
Dan should understand the value of decentralization. If he is actively doing better things, then I guess that is acceptable. If Dan is literally sitting around doing nothing all day, then I find that to be not fulfilling one's potential in life.