2000 Crypto Projects DOES NOT Mean 2000 Crypto Innovations

As I've been branching out in my #learntocode adventure into crypto and blockchain, I'm noticing more and more that a lot of projects are just slight variations on a theme. I am not a developer by any stretch, but I can recognize the same code used over and over again. I have seen projects have serious failures that they then attribute to open source code they used from another project, and the implication that it somehow absolves them of any responsibility. One thing I've been playing around with is webscraping block explorer data for my own personal use. Even the block explorers all use the same code. It's so easy to modularize what I am doing for different projects that use staking and masternodes.

I guess the moral of this story is, before you think a project is revolutionary, take a look at its code. Look at Github. See where the project forked from. Do a diff (check the difference) on the code. A lot of the time you'll be unimpressed, and you'll question the hero worship for a project leader who's great innovation was changing something like the block size or the interval time.