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by searchableguy 1488 days ago
> 10 years is a long time

That period also excludes all the work and progress in phones it took to get there.

> I’ll ignore DeFi because I know it doesn’t necessarily sit well with HN

DeFi is revolutionary. The idea of programmable finance and bank which can be created by anyone (we have 12 year old engineers with complex defi financial products) is nothing short of eye watering. On top of it, all the primitives are composeable which makes risk stacking possible. That's capital efficient for the capital owner compared to tradfi.

You can criticise the grifters in the space which are too many but what it enables is amazing to me.

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> we have 12 year old engineers with complex defi financial products

It means they are not complex. Honestly, none of the DeFi projects are (it's flash loans and currency speculation across the board).

And none of them are banks.