OK so Nockchain, pretty crazy, it's been running smoothly for about 8 weeks now, which alone is pretty crazy given what they built, but much crazier... It seems to be taking off. It looks like real, organic demand among proof-of-work miners. Right now I count 81 miners that have won at least one block (vastly faster uptake and decentralization than Bitcoin, for comparison). People spending real time, effort, and money (compute) to produce zero-knowledge proofs on @nockchain. It's generating 6,233 ZKPs per second lmao. To be fair, I’ve never been this far along working with a startup, but I don't really know how these graphs could look better for a novel L1 proof-of-work chain in the first 8 weeks. I don't want to be too excited too early, but I'm struggling to see what could fundamentally stop this train. In my mental model when I first started working with them, all of the risk was technical/execution (could they actually get it up and running?) and then the cold-start problem (if launched, would it get off the ground at all?). I felt very realistic, i.e. pessimistic, about dying on any of those hills. But this machine runs, people seem to want it, cold-start seems behind us, and @zorpzk has still only raised the tiniest amount of capital compared to any other L1 blockchain that has reached this stage (afaik?). I've definitely been over-excited about things in the past, but now I'm like... Is this really happening?

@mustached0 Does that change your judgment?