you're leaving out the speedrun video? that's the best part!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30pa790tIIA

To support your numbers somewhat: iirc at one point about 5 years ago Bing was giving out ~$120 a year in Amazon gift cards if you were a heavy searcher on Bing

Lots of smart people in this space disagree with "fat protocols."

I'll immodestly list my own first: https://www.evanvanness.com/post/166666272011/theres-no-such...

See also CoinFund's Jake Brukhman: https://blog.coinfund.io/fat-protocols-are-not-an-investment...

And Zeppelin's Teemu Paivinen: https://blog.zeppelin.solutions/thin-protocols-cc872258379f

I hear that even Joel doesn't agree with how his piece has been interpreted.

even before watching, I can say: it doesn't get better than this

FYI you can go use working state channels right now at https://showcase.funfair.io/

The decentralized web built on top of Ethereum/Swarm/Whisper

If you'd like an easy way to keep up to date on Ethereum: http://www.weekinethereum.com

If you want to stay up to date on Ethereum, I've heard there's a fantastic weekly email newsletter that's worth reading: http://www.weekinethereum.com

I was hoping for the same thing.

Wondering if the click bait type articles this might promote was a reason to not pursue this direction.