[wanderingbort]

The interface to the globally available computation is a bit different and I think novel.

In order for my application and yours to interact we had to both chose the same ecosystem and invest in it to some minimal degree.

It’s easy to frame that negatively.

But there are some positive aspects to that mutual agreement to invest. Similar to how you may deploy an open standard of authentication inside your infrastructure, the expectation is that the community will improve tools and share innovations over time even if you aren’t directly interacting with any of them. It’s not required. It’s just an expectation.

Ethereum is like that. There is a community of developers extending the ecosystem and it’s exclusively people who invest in and use the platform.

We can mince words over the value prop of cryptocurrency and a decentralized ledger but, I don’t get the same belonging to a community on AWS or GCP.

FWIW most of the people I work with in the community dislike the same scammers that you do.