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I don't know about the others, but IPFS uses Filecoin, which is blockchain based.
This is not exact. Filecoin is built on the top of IPFS! https://filecoin.io/build/
Why Web3?
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Re: Why Web3?
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> I've never met a single person who had money but couldn't get a bank account* - have you? I don't agree with defi but this is absolutely a problem in a lot of rural america. People with money, who get paid, but without a bank so they have to take their checks to gas stations who take huge fees. That you haven't met someone like this isn't surprising at all.
Why can't they open an online checking account like Ally which will allow them to deposit a photo of their check free of charge? My understanding is a lot of low-income folks have smartphones as desktop replacements. Is this not a strictly better solution than anything in crypto? I'm also open to postal banking as a solution to this problem, but I'm not really clear on where the system is actually currently failing f…
You have an incredible amount of optimism for both Ally's marketing department and also rural internet. Furthermore, this doesn't solve the cash problem unless you want to pay upwards of $5 just to pull out of an ATM.
> folks seem not to be asking the relevant questions
This is an incredibly well researched situation affecting a lot of americans. You not knowing isn't the same as this not being well understood.
Re: Why Web3?
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> I've never met a single person who had money but couldn't get a bank account* - have you? I don't agree with defi but this is absolutely a problem in a lot of rural america. People with money, who get paid, but without a bank so they have to take their checks to gas stations who take huge fees. That you haven't met someone like this isn't surprising at all.
This sounds like parts of the US has a problem with checks and a lack of good, digital bank services. I can transfer money and pay my bills with my phone. I can even transfer money to people not having the same bank as I have. I did it today, it took 30s or so and the recipient could immediately see the money on her phone. Where I live we also tend to use cards a LOT. I can pay in almost any store with my debit card…
Re: Why Web3?
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But you can't prove ownership of the actual art, with an NFT. You can only prove ownership of that specific crypto transaction, which might be just a fake NFT, or duplicate. There is nothing about crypto that actually proves it was the "real" NFT, or real art. You need something else to actually prove that you own the "real" piece of art or NFT. > Not identifying creators If you are unable to identify creators then y…
You are conflating several issues. Yes, a creator presumably would have ways to cheat the system, for example by selling the same thing on different blockchains (as mentioned elsewhere). But eventually they would be revealed to be frauds and presumably the worth of their creations would plummet. To verify the identity of a creator is a solvable problem, though, and is also yet another issue than the "sell it multiple…
Re: Why Web3?
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Tim Berners-Lee, “The Many Meanings of Open”, https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Open.html > “The World Wide Web turns 25 next year. We have come a long way, but we must all continue to push for these various forms of openness in the appropriate places. Only then can we ensure that the Web is for everyone.” While his essay doesn’t use the words “abundance” or “post-scarcity”, it gets pretty close. My guess is that the g…
> While his essay doesn’t use the words “abundance” or “post-scarcity”, it gets pretty close. My guess is that the guy who gave the Internet away for free probably approaches technology from an abundance perspective. Thanks for that essay. I actually didn't see anything that got close to post scarcity. The only point that seemed to touch on it was the point about Open Access but it seemed to be closely scoped to acad…
Some items, like tickets to the World Cup, are scarce. A payments API/protocol allows scarce items to be sold online. Presence of the API/protocol doesn’t prevent simultaneous distribution of abundant items online, or imply creators of the web are anything but pragmatic. Even the Free Software Foundation is pragmatic about people charging a fee for GPL software (e.g. sell a DVD with the software), as long as the GPL licensed source code is included. FSF hopes you’ll give away the DVD, but understands if you choose not to.
It seems like the idea that people are working toward abundance really bothers you. How come?
Re: Why Web3?
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> While his essay doesn’t use the words “abundance” or “post-scarcity”, it gets pretty close. My guess is that the guy who gave the Internet away for free probably approaches technology from an abundance perspective. Thanks for that essay. I actually didn't see anything that got close to post scarcity. The only point that seemed to touch on it was the point about Open Access but it seemed to be closely scoped to acad…
You’re making the argument that if the web has a payments API/protocol then the community building the web can’t simultaneously aspire toward a future of abundance. That doesn’t make sense. Some items, like tickets to the World Cup, are scarce. A payments API/protocol allows scarce items to be sold online. Presence of the API/protocol doesn’t prevent simultaneous distribution of abundant items online, or imply creato…
Oh I'm not saying folks cannot aspire toward abundance. I'm only saying that the technology didn't have abundance in mind when creating the net or the web.
> It seems like the idea that people are working toward abundance really bothers you. How come?
I'm not against that at all. A lot of arguments against Blockchain technologies seem to be that "the web used to be about abundance and Blockchain tech is against that so it's against the idea of the web as a whole." It's an argument designed around a narrative of a rug pull (e.g. it used to be abundant and now it's not) as opposed to a more realistic narrative that "we wish to bring the web to an abundance state and Blockchain technologies don't share that wish" which is an accurate but much more mild claim. I just want it to be clear that there was no solid historical basis for abundance in computer networking so that activists do not change history for stronger claims and that such claims (for or against abundance mind you) are ideologically motivated.
Re: Why Web3?
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> In that sense, very limited use-rights are actually required Specifically, what use rights does an NFT grant? For photographs (and I have a small gallery of them collected over the years in art festivals and galleries), they're hanging on my wall... though I can't publicly display them (that's part of the copyright). If I sell a print of a digital image (that I captured with a camera) and I sell a NFT of the same d…
The NFT is just an entry in a ledger. What rights the buyer has to the intellectual property that is your photo is decided by your respective jurisdictions. In general, I would think this is largely up to you - i.e. only the rights you explicitly granted. However, I believe in the US, there is no right to even download a copy of a file on the internet for purely personal reasons. I could see an NFT buyer successfully…
Do you have any examples of an NFT that grant rights accompanied by TOS terms for minting the NFT that affirm that it is the original artist or someone who is authorized to do so who is creating it?
> However, I believe in the US, there is no right to even download a copy of a file on the internet for purely personal reasons.
There is de minimis which isn't so much a right but rather a "this is beneath the concern of the law".
As to the US aspect, every country that is a signatory of the Berne Convention ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention ) recognizes the minimum standard for protection which includes the right to to make replications or display to the public that is held as part of copyright.
For an NFT, would a baseball card be an acceptable comparison for what it represents in the real world? To that end, I would contend that the same thing happens to it when the player that it represents (there is no ownership conveyed in a baseball card beyond the card itself) leaves the game.
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> I want to build apps without having to worry about ever being restricted, limited or shut down. I'm not at all convinced that technology from "web3" or ethereum or whatever can actually do this. Please don't tell me it's coming soon or just a matter of time. That's been said for ten years.
Read my original comment again. I'm not advocating for blockchain or crypto. My point was that you should not conflate decentralization with these buzz words and dismiss it by affiliation. I don't know when this is coming or if it's coming at all but it's what I want.
Re: Why Web3?
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> You can literally mint infinite NFTs of the same piece of digital art. That's what I fathomed. What I don't get is why would anybody pay anything for them
The use cases are more than art. Art is a part of the equation, sure, and we see these... incredibly inflated prices being paid for art as insane. Digital art. That can be replicated. In which ownership of the NFT may/may not convey ownership of the artwork. Of course this sounds absolutely nuts, and people can be forgiven for believing it is absolutely nuts and that's all there is to it. But consider a very successf…