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Ask HN: What's New in Crypto?
Few seem focused on it anymore, which means that there's probably a bunch of interesting innovations underway. I know that there are some well-informed true believers lurking here. What's new in crypto?
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Few seem focused on it anymore, which means that there's probably a bunch of interesting innovations underway. I know that there are some well-informed true believers lurking here. What's new in crypto?
Monero is the best cryptocurrency for people that prioritize privacy and freedom.
Stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets are the only clearly useful things right now.
Agent payment will be an important development direction for crypto in the future. Compared to traditional fiat payments, digital currencies have some inherent advantages.
I just left a previous comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48242955
I think they'll be advances in taxation: it'll be simpler, fairer and easier. And that may make a UBI more doable.
ZK infra is finally practical for small teams. EIP- 4844 made L2 fees cheap enough to actually experiment
Comments like heres an actual project I am working on and why the tech matters usually gets attention.
Follow up: are we getting more efficient? Are the more energy efficient chains taking off?
A lot of the innovation now is happening in scaling
Uhm… cryptography or cryptocurrency?
I assume cryptocurrency, since OP mentioned "true believers."
There isn't cryptography true-believers, it is just mathematical proofs with sometimes good or bad code wrapping it.