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Direct rewards for anonymous data. I can see a problem with fake data spam. One way to solve that problem is to not reward users for their data.

That system is basically a donation dressed up as a "stock". The TLDR from that article: "The Packers bylaws and NFL rules severely restrict transfers of Packers stock... And: No o…

"buying and selling products that could never be sold before" Damn, guess i own a time machine. I am fairly certain i have both bought and sold digital assets like years ago.

NFT's would seem very, very interesting, except one little detail... Their current core utility is url-forwarding. So, i have to pay to see the desination url/data ? No ? In the re…

It's good to see livestock and chemical use mentioned. But what about the other cow in the agricultural room ? Reckless farming practice/expansions in developing countries, such as…

> At its very best, it was a coarse indication that neither suggested nor invited further clarity. The same could be said about Likes, viewcount and comments. IMO user-based metric…

> This is what ultimately killed Second Life. In the early days it was being used by businesses, for meetings etc. Then all the people with kinks moved in and now no one takes it s…

"The High Court in this case has decided that if you are the host of a Facebook page, you are going to be treated as publisher, even though the comments are put there by a third pa…

Norway.

No, they'll just continue to tax and (increasingly) regulate the exchange of crypto-currencies.

> The only thing I mind are the people pretending a real problem has been solved with NFTs. It's not a pretend problem at all. The author could have used any existing auction platf…

"you may not continue using the CHIA mark in your domain name" That's a good way to cancel adoption before it even starts.

It sure is politicized from all possible sides. But we should be open to investigating the cause, so that we can create policies that can prevent future disasters.

You cannot withdraw crypto from Robinhood. https://robinhood.com/us/en/support/articles/cryptocurrency-...

The same way you spot them in tech-stocks. When projects that don't deserve attention/funding receive a lot of attention/funding then you are in a bubble. A good recent example of …

As much as i hate the speculative bubbles, the high electrical usage, difficulty of obtaining and using it, the disturbing services that are traded on the dark-net, crypto-currency…

Please Dog, just one more bubble.

Crypto's value is based on hypothetical future adoption. Since people believe Musk is a great influencer of future-adoption, his tweets make the market.

I've been looking into what problems NFT's are trying to solve, and i can't figure it out.

If they printed more Tether than there is demand for tether wouldn't the price for Tether-to-USD tank ?

"Shift the power from individuals..." I believe they missed the core reason for crypto-currency initial traction. After the 2008 govt-bank bailout orgy, people lost trust in both b…