Been thinking about this post for a while. I think the 80/20 thing represents a power law distribution, and I think the -1/+99 represents a notion that, if you can't tell beforehand it's a power law distribution, then fuck it.

But, when it comes to crypto and evolution, it's easy to take god's view when it's convenient and a time sensitive view when it's a little more convenient. I think almost all blockchains will probably die, and there's no reason to think there will be a limit to them, but at any given time they're out there, trading on a number of factors, tech, community, marketing, history, faith etc. I think, when we think of macro-life, the -1/+99 is probably right, but the micro is an entirely different story, we really don't know enough, and probably never will to assert something like that rule, and it would pertain to the vast majority of the argument. I know there are bacteria are in an unending race against their food/predators, and that there are some that have been unchanged in millions of years, like, literally the organism itself is still living. I think crypto will become more organic as decentralized exchanges continue to appear and become viable, and I think a lot of them will just continue to exist in their small little ecosystems. I never understood why mintcoin ever existed, and despite being banished from polo, it still does, and will as long as one guy has the client running, also primecoin, will probably always keep being mined since it's mathy, but otherwise providing no prospective utility to a user.

But while life comes in all shapes and sizes, I'm not really sure there's a strait continuity from Blue Whale/aspen grove to bacteria/virus/prion. There's no coinmarketcap for biology. And anyways, metaphors only get us so far.