It might seem like I’m making fun of Dan Larimer, but that’s not really the goal. I genuinely wonder what’s happening in his life, and how he ended up where he is. I wonder with concern more than anything else.
About a year ago I stumbled across a video from Dan Larimer where he was predicting the end times. Since then, he has become, and I’m not exaggerating, something of a doomsday prophet. He has an audience too. People follow his uploads regularly.
As far as I can tell, he’s predicted the end of the world about ten times since I found his YouTube chapter. Obviously, those dates have come and gone. To his credit, he has admitted being wrong. But then comes a new interpretation, a new passage, and a new date.
If I didn’t know any better, I might suspect this was a grift. But I do know better. Dan is not broke. He doesn’t need YouTube ad revenue to survive. He did quite well with EOS, to put it mildly.
Maybe I’m being ridiculous here. Maybe I’m overthinking it. But I sometimes wonder if he ever checks in on what we’re building over here. It feels strange to help start something like our blockchain and then walk away entirely.
Maybe he’s moved on. Maybe this is his new calling.
Or maybe I’m just poking the internet with a stick to see if good old Dan is still around. Lurking, as the kids say.
I found out today that his newest prediction places the end of the world on March 4th.
I’m fairly confident March 4th will arrive, pass quietly, and the show will continue. Another verse will be revisited. Another date will be circled.
Purely mathematically speaking, though, he’s bound to be right eventually.
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