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Why settle for Doge when you can beat $BTC?

Herbert Eng
5 min readJul 17, 2021

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A crypto-centric future is guaranteed. Why? Because boomers will … expire and afaik they haven’t quite made life extension technologies viable. Third-generation inheritors will all convert wealth into $BTC or whatever crypto they are bullish on. If Bitcoin is digital Manhattan/gold, what would be digital Texas/silver?

Ethereum would be top of your mind. Maybe Bitcash.

But coins that are fundamentally utility tokens or a brand derived from a more prominent cousin won’t have the gravitas or meme-ability/memepower to rise to that position. Technology tends to be a winner takes most phenomenon, and if you’re not Android, you won’t even come close to Apple iOS. Utility tokens live or die by their performance. Who’s to say Cardano or Solana won’t overtake Ethereum within the next five years? Who’s to say Internet Computer won’t suddenly become congruent with the times to completely and utterly dominate everything?

Bitcoin is a cryptoasset that is the dominant monetary technology for storing value not because it is based on superior technology — blockchains like DASH have forked it and made it arguably better. It takes pole position because it has the brand advantage of being the first entry in a transformative paradigm shift. People gravitate around it because they are socialized to. Because technology won’t be a factor in…

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Herbert Eng
Herbert Eng

Written by Herbert Eng

Failed startup guy now crypto maximalist. High IQ takes and alpha on GameFi, degen Defi and NFTs.

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