@blockurator,

It's like walking into a farmer's market with a wagon full of fresh fruit and vegetables only to find that all the other merchant's are trading each other last year's crop and making pennies on the spillover business of the dupes following the crowd, thinking they are getting a bargain because they are buying "the most popular fruits and vegetables" at the market. Who'd want to sell in that environment. Only other farmers who want to get in on the game.

Laughing my ass off ... Block, you never miss an opportunity to promote "FarmPunk" themes. :-) :-) :-) Spoken like a true Garden Gnome. Still ... a great metaphor.

That is true, but they will follow the VC's. A blockchain that has something going for it should be able to attract VC money. But there is an interesting shift taking place in venture capital investment of tech startups. VC's are being very picky. If EOS gets early backers, especially ones known for making good picks--like Goldman Sachs and Kleiner Perkins--then it should take an early lead. The ICO era is dead. The next blockchain breakout will likely turn to traditional money.

Excellent point. Google "EOS" + "venture capital." EOS is surrounded by Goldman Sachs alumni (once Goldman Sachs, always Goldman Sachs ... their continued relationship with ex-employees is one of the things that makes it so uniquely powerful) and top tier VC's. It's one of the things that caught my attention.

Napoleon was an imperialist who had his ass handed to him when he underestimated the weather ... Napoleon was a lunatic.

Blasphemy!!! Napoleon was a genius and someday I'm going to take you to task for your irreverence. Napoleon fought more battles than Alexander, Caesar (if you only count battles for which we have proof beyond what he claimed ... he was a notorious bullshitter) and Hannibal combined.

The Russian Csar, in the ultimate example of "Scorched Earth" policy, burned Moscow to the ground (killing tens of thousands of civilians and hospitalized Russian soldiers) while evacuating to St. Petersburg. The sacrifice of Russia's capital prevented Napoleon from using it as a re-supply center and the distance from Europe made re-supply impossible. This Was Not a foreseeable tactic. At the time, European Rules of War were designed to minimize civilian casualties, even in enemy terrain.

Even before this, however, the Grand Armee was ravaged by a huge outbreak of camp disease that decimated their numbers due to a highly anomalous hot Russian summer which resulted in an explosion of disease-carrying lice.

Shit happens ... and you can't always control it. :-)

Quill