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Comment by FanaHOVA | Hacker News Reader

Many of the people on this list, like tobi, have one.

I'm still really fascinated/confused by Tobi's demonstrated obsession with crypto/nft/web3. He's obviously not in it to get rich because he's already rich, and he actually has a presumably deep understanding of technology (unlike most of the crypto fanatics), so all I can imagine is that he really must be caught up in the philosophical/cultural trappings of it.

> He's obviously not in it to get rich because he's already rich

Er...

gestures broadly at rich people

Yes, I also don't get it. Shopify is even doing this weird NFT thing with Doodle (or whatever that is called). The whole SXSW show looked like something out of of a birthday of a rich teenager. It made me lose some respect for Tobi and Shopify.

Edit: Found the Tweet: https://twitter.com/Shopify/status/1503450539866177536?s=20&...

Also, this: https://www.shopify.com/nft

He has a deep understanding of the technology so wouldn't be interested in crypto why?

There are lots of builders constantly creating things in the web3 space. Maybe you should re-examine your opinion of crypto if you see smart people involved and can't understand why they would be interested

We tend to assume that people who are successful are also very smart, and this is often not the case.

Caus it's fun? Hacking on DeFi products feels like hacking on websites in the 90s, or I assume hacking on PCs in the 80s.

There's a lot of cool stuff yet to be built and you get the freedom to build and launch anything you like and have it be used by millions of people overnight.

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