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Evan Van Ness
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Evan Van Ness writes Tumblr, a personal blog at evanvanness.com about economics and business. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-29, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this post as one of several pieces arguing against the "fat protocols" thesis in blockchain design, cited alongside CoinFund and Zeppelin critiques.
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What Hacker News says?
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…
Comment linking /post/166666272011/theres-no-such-thing-as-fat-protocols
on “Building for the Blockchain”Submitted There's no such thing as “fat protocols” in blockchain investing as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fundamental questions around web3/blockchain value accrual as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ethereum at $1000 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I aced the Coursera Machine Learning class…without being a programmer as a story · 2 points
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