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That's an optimistic take on it. I could imagine that there will be companies who score the personality development of a person for HR departments.
Thats a pretty decent idea, though, isn't it?
It's a bit like the IQ testing for employment placing.
I don't see what the appeal is on having a permanent message board. Certainly almost everyone who has spent a lot of time online has said something that they wish they could take offline. I think what we really need is more transience in online discussions. If I said something when I was 14 years old that shouldn't come up when an employer searches for me. I was a completely different person then. Heck, that's why I…
Slightly off topic, but aren't all of these alternative uses for block chains going to explode their size and cause more storage and bandwidth to be used on many servers around the world?
But, this generally means that you will prioritize smaller, more high value things like large financial transactions (moving $10 million costs 400 bytes, complaining about the core developers take 2kb). And so in my opinion this payment model makes a ton of sense.
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Isn't bitcoin and other blockchains validated by "proof-of-work", meaning a nontrivial amount of energy is required to post something to this discussion forum? I mean it's nearly indefensible to even add an energy overhead to financial transactions, but this...
> I mean it's nearly indefensible to even add an energy overhead to financial transactions Come on now. How much energy is devoted to securing the traditional financial system? I'm talking about buildings, personnel, armored vehicles, weapons, lawyers, courts, etc. Other blockchains are secured by different mechanisms than proof-of-work, and research is ongoing into more efficient ways of achieving distributed consen…
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A blockchain, when applied properly, can provide levels of trust in a way that is not directly associated with the proof of work they run. Bitcoin uses SHA256 for POW, which is pretty well understood by now to be secure and hovers around cost efficiency. Using the trust embodied in the blockchain allows for the mapping of comment, author, topic commented on, participants in the topic (a sub-aggregate) and a general c…
So what you're saying is that basically you have verification that the conversation you see is one that took place and that there are a fixed set of identities (not people) who had that conversation? Can't we just schlep a merkle tree over the top of any forum software and get similar guarantees? And isn't this sort of false due the lack of convergence of the block chain over long partitioning events?