I avoided ICP because (at a glance) I thought it was a meme coin from the “Insane Clown Posse”.😅
I love the band actually but in my “smug sense of superiority” I avoided any and all meme coins by default.
Then I was exploring putting together a bunch of chains to solve some research problems.
1. XRPL for low cost swaps and liquidity.
2.
Global.id (dead now I think) for identity/auth. Looked at
Kilt.io too (when they were a w3c DID/VC focused platform).
3. Hyper ledger and some others for a database.
4. Project like Storj/FileCoin (even Burstcoin/Signum) for block Storage.
As I was thinking through integrations I thought, “none of these handle compute well or fill stack development well”.
Then I found ICP and realized all these problems could be solved by the Internet Computer.😱
Have been exploring it, buying it (even at these low prices and the ugly price chart), and tinkering with ideas that would inject value into it ever since.
Have built 4 (failed) experiments on it. Learned a lot from those and am working on a broader market project.
No token or DAO. Just USD into the project with a portion of the profit automatically accumulating ICP (for cycles and HODLs).
ICP needs value injectors (projects that move value from the “fiat network” on to the IC) not value extractors (projects that remove value from the ICP ecosystem).
I think Jerry (and others like him) are value injectors (even if the value doesn’t have the same kind of systemic durability apps built on the IC have - they bring value to the network).
Super bullish on ICP with Jerry mass minting shill videos everyday again. I personally wouldn't be here if it wasn't for his altcoin review videos
In the beginning I thought his constant praise of ICP was annoying until i finally caved in and deep dived it
I still see a $1000
$ICP some day. DFINITY has explored everything thats possible with Blockchain, theres no meaningful direction competitors can go without copying what they've built
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