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After reading this, I feel the founders of Elph and myself have radically different ideas about what "Netscape" means.
After reading this, I feel the founders of Elph and myself have radically different ideas about what "Crypto" means. :-) Isn't OpenSSL the Netscape of Crypto?
After reading this, I feel the founders of Elph and myself have radically different ideas about what "Netscape" means.
I see Coinbase as "the Netscape of crypto". They're the company that is making it easy for ordinary people to get involved with trading or holding crypto assets, basically the on-ramp to the cryptocurrency world. Ironically, Coinbase sees themselves as "the Google of crypto". Having worked at Google, this seems nonsensical to me. Google was built at a much later time in the dot-com boom, when the Internet had expande…
My view of Netscape was that it was a fantastic browser, and it was quite a bit better than NCSA Mosaic that it replaced. That said at the time, I think the majority of internet users problems were much more fundamental, like "How do I get this stupid modem thing to send me the internet". I think it could be argued that the "getting connected to the internet" piece is an analog to 'getting connected to ethereum / blockchain", but its unclear to me how the winners translate over.
EDIT: I reserve the right to be completely missing the point. Feel free to call me out in 5-10 years.
Everyone needs to stop using "crypto" to mean "cryptocurrency". I thought this article was going to be about cryptography, not more hype for dunning-krugerrands.
Yeah, I found the title very confusingly ambiguous. While we can't force the world to use language a certain way, can we at least have non-ambiguous title for HN posts?
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After reading this, I feel the founders of Elph and myself have radically different ideas about what "Crypto" means. :-) Isn't OpenSSL the Netscape of Crypto?
Netscape is the Netscape of crypto, since they developed SSL and NSS.
Everyone wants to be some analogy. "The Netscape of Crypto"? "The Macintosh of Crypto"? That's all marketing and it should mean nothing.
> The ELPH token is used in conjunction with the Elph Protocol to approve and rank dApps in the dApp store.
It looks like the system can be gamed for profit.
I 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?
somebody is already doing this = https://status.im
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Brendan Eich is working on something similar - https://brave.com/
You almost got me scared there! I was going to switch to Brave on my tablet to get better power saving / faster experience via adblocking. However, having blockchain in the browser would defeat the whole thing, making everything much slower instead. Luckily, they only seem to incorporate BAT, which is fully opt-in, and seems to have no overhead for regular users.