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What's the likelihood that ISPs will levy higher rates on bandwidth for things like Storj and Filecoin? This 'next-generation' model of enabling people to profit off of cheap/unlimited internet packages seems like a juicy target.
Unfortunately for the author of this amazing (and cringeworthy) exercise, skeptics often put in a lot of effort, but receive practically no reward compared to the con artist. Even the people who agree with and appreciate the effort of the skeptics are few compared to the number of irrational people who gladly follow the cons. This is a bit radical (and probably outside the interest of HN), but if we somehow could rem…
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How do you suggest we do that?
By observing our behaviors and eliminating harmful ones, i.e. through mindfulness of one's actions and motivations.
I understand the appeal of ICOs and cryptocurrencies and distributed storage that is automatically shared, decentralized, etc etc. But a part of me says "is this complexity necessary?". The appeal of a service like Dropbox is that it is simple. Most engineer friends I had at the time when services like Box and Dropbox started popping up, laughed at the idea... "It is just a fancy ftp". Now they all use these services…
So they're basically an ICO consultant or contractor? It looks like it's just as profitable to him as it sounds. As far as those marketing techniques go, I'm aware of a lot of them such as paying for press releases or articles and paying users to shill their ICO everywhere, buying twitter followers, etc, but I wonder how much worse it gets. I guess it depends on the ICO and those behind it, some obviously 'just' use…
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Just wondering: If you got so rich from crypto currency that you could retire, would you retire? Start your own company? Just do fun stuff? Or keep working? I myself work, to occupy myself with interesting problems, so I would keep doing this, regardless of my wealth.
Wealthy enough to really never work again? Yes, I'd absolutely "retire." I'd still "work", in the sense that, say, angel investors work, or people own real estate; I'd also still write software in my free time. But for the most part, no I wouldn't continue doing what I do now because I'd stop consulting and I would never again be an individual contributor. I'd probably devote "professional focus" to investing and aca…
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Almost all crypto market action is in China. And the ICO market there is so pathological that it's the exchanges asking for regulation. http://news.8btc.com/okcoin-ceo-host-non-public-ico-regulati...
The incumbents are always in favor of regulation, it prevents competition.
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By observing our behaviors and eliminating harmful ones, i.e. through mindfulness of one's actions and motivations.
This solves the problem for you, the individual who values your goal, but that's the easy part. How do you suggest we get other people to do it?
I understand the appeal of ICOs and cryptocurrencies and distributed storage that is automatically shared, decentralized, etc etc. But a part of me says "is this complexity necessary?". The appeal of a service like Dropbox is that it is simple. Most engineer friends I had at the time when services like Box and Dropbox started popping up, laughed at the idea... "It is just a fancy ftp". Now they all use these services…
If I may, what methodology is there exactly?