On: Why YC went to DC

[pram]

Haven’t seen any “Web 3” shills for a long time, gone right out of style it has!

[reducesuffering → pram]

Didn't stop YC from funding almost 100 of them[0] including signal boosting[1] this obvious scam that blatantly ripped off another's website and company too.[2]

[0] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?tags=Crypto%20%2F%20We...

[1] https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1517556338750074881?lang=en

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31686140

[throw46365 → pram]

Scroll back far enough on the X timelines of a few AI evangelists/specialists/advisers: oop, there they are. NFTs, Ethereum, altcoins.

[Tao3300 → throw46365]

Gotta do something with all those GPUs

[pram → throw46365]

Yeah I just assumed this was the case lol

[jrockway → pram]

Everyone spent the cash they were going to invest into startups on NFTs, I guess.