on prl endgame
i keep thinking about that small hidden section in pearl's paper
i think currently for most people, pearl = mine a coin while doing AI, which is true but far from being the whole picture
the real endgame is imo much bigger:
(1) mining bootstraps a massive supply of compute
(2) that compute gets matched with people actually needing it
(3) pearl becomes a compute marketplace
and if that happens, prl can become the money used to trade compute inside that marketplace
that means you have something that is both a store of value and the native currency of the compute economy
could be massive