Humanity's journey with money is pretty funny when you think about it. First we invented currency itself. Then we decided, why not digitize it? So digital money happened. But that wasn't enough—we had to go further and create digital money that's fundamentally different from regular digital money. Each iteration, each layer of abstraction. It's like we keep finding new ways to reimagine what value exchange actually means.

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DegenMcsleeplessvip
· 20h ago
Abstract trap abstract, in the end, I don't even know what money is, ha.
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LayerZeroHerovip
· 20h ago
It turns out that each layer of abstraction is redefining the trust model... this is where it gets really interesting.
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AlwaysQuestioningvip
· 20h ago
The crypto world is always in a trap, who knows what the next layer is?
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BrokenDAOvip
· 20h ago
Every abstraction comes at a cost, to be honest. Back when Bitcoin was around, you could still tell a story. What about now? A bunch of tokens are competing with each other, the incentive mechanisms are distorted beyond recognition, and everyone is still imagining what the next layer can solve—this is just a revamped version of the centralization trap.
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CryptoDouble-O-Sevenvip
· 21h ago
In simple terms, it's just a never-ending nested doll game of humans messing with money, from bartering to fiat and then to digital money, and now various fancy tokens are coming out... How long is this going to go on for?
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ForeverBuyingDipsvip
· 21h ago
Haha, in the end, we are still buying the dip, it's a cycle.
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