After reading this, I feel the founders of Elph and myself have radically different ideas about what "Netscape" means.
what do you think netscape means?
Elph wants to be the Netscape for cryptocurrency
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#12Does https://www.elph.com work for anyone?
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#13After reading this, I feel the founders of Elph and myself have radically different ideas about what "Netscape" means.
what do you think netscape means?
I realize over time Netscape did quite a few things, but to me it is a company that made a web browser. They weren't a portal or an app store. Maybe if you accept that ethereum is somehow equivalent to the web...
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#14I bet they're not the only ones working on this.
Brendan Eich is working on something similar - https://brave.com/
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
what do you think netscape means?
I realize over time Netscape did quite a few things, but to me it is a company that made a web browser. They weren't a portal or an app store. Maybe if you accept that ethereum is somehow equivalent to the web...
Netscape launched a doomed portal in 1997 and relaunched in 1998 after they started losing significant browser share to IE. There were already plenty of better portals at the time (Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, Infoseek, Compuserve, Prodigy, AOL, etc) and Netcenter's only real traffic came via Netscape Navigator users because it was the default home page.
I don't understand the comparison to Netscape either. When Netscape was in it's prime, Elph's founder was 5 years old.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
"My startup is the first to make parachutes out of concrete!" Not every "first" idea is going to succeed.
Well, it also helps if the idea they're tackling is a burning need, which one would think it is. Being first doesn't guarantee anything, but it doesn't hurt.
Nobody needs dapps. That's the problem you need to solve first.
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#17What does that even mean
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#18I see what they are trying to do but I don’t see why staking a coin is necessary. You should be able to figure out what is a scam and what is sovereign through data.
Further, I don’t understand why Coinbase doesn’t leverage its flagship app instead of owning Toshi, Cipher, and funding this. How often does one use Coinbase? If you are a serious trader you are using their web site. You should be able to buy crypto and apply crypto to dapps in the same place.
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#19Everyone needs to stop using "crypto" to mean "cryptocurrency".
I thought this article was going to be about cryptography, not more hype for dunning-krugerrands.
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#20I see what they are trying to do but I don’t see why staking a coin is necessary. You should be able to figure out what is a scam and what is sovereign through data. Further, I don’t understand why Coinbase doesn’t leverage its flagship app instead of owning Toshi, Cipher, and funding this. How often does one use Coinbase? If you are a serious trader you are using their web site. You should be able to buy crypto and…
"You should be able to figure out what is a scam and what is sovereign through data." Right but wouldn't a tool to help people learn this help?