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Ask HN: Am I wrong about blockchain? What is your legitimate blockchain project?

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Re: Ask HN: Am I wrong about blockchain? What is your legitimate blockchain project?

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- Using a crypto address as a login instead of a central authority like a social login. - ipfs is way cheaper than s3. - any trading network where the trade partners - Also think crypto innovation happens in waves. mostly when the market goes down and developers need to add more innovation to the market and the innovation cycle repeats.

Right on, are there any actual projects out there that do / use any of this?

Re: Ask HN: Am I wrong about blockchain? What is your legitimate blockchain project?

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Please explain why a website is the better solution for your project than existing technologies, and please no projects that exist solely for the purpose of reaching a browser-based audience, enabling webapps and so on! I look forward to seeing your replies! -- Repeat excercise with the Internet, the punch hole card, the steam machine, the landline telephone etc etc. Even if some tech eventually fails, that doesn't m…

Are you seriously comparing Landline Phones/Steam machines to Blockchain ?

It’s potentially fair, see what the comparison comes up with. McKinsey told AT&T not to bother with cell phones, too small a market. And who would need more than 640K RAM in their PCs? (At the time, that question was widely discussed. BG did appear to say that.)

Re: Ask HN: Am I wrong about blockchain? What is your legitimate blockchain project?

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You're starting off by being skeptical about crypto and asking what's "not-a-total-scam". That's a good thing when it comes to crypto. The less you trust other people makes things look better for crypto. Crypto is better positioned to deal with a lack of trust in a transaction than any traditional business or government. It's designed to be trustless. You can (and IMO should) be a paranoid schizo and worry that every…

It seems like you maybe could have provided just one example based on the length of your reply...

I’m hoping you get some examples too.

Re: Ask HN: Am I wrong about blockchain? What is your legitimate blockchain project?

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You're starting off by being skeptical about crypto and asking what's "not-a-total-scam". That's a good thing when it comes to crypto. The less you trust other people makes things look better for crypto. Crypto is better positioned to deal with a lack of trust in a transaction than any traditional business or government. It's designed to be trustless. You can (and IMO should) be a paranoid schizo and worry that every…

Regarding my account, I'll happily admit I am not a fan of speaking publicly about basically anything. If blockchain tech was confined to a bunch of gamblers loosing money amongst themselves and making wild speculative bets it wouldn't matter to me so much - The real issue is that it has gained too much support from people with MASSIVE financial incentives to push these scams onto the general population, and it ends…

> at their core, digital assets are (practically) infinitely available

Have you ever considered that a blockchain essentially reverses this concept?

Have you given any thought as to why this is valuable?

Re: Ask HN: Am I wrong about blockchain? What is your legitimate blockchain project?

#15

- Using a crypto address as a login instead of a central authority like a social login. - ipfs is way cheaper than s3. - any trading network where the trade partners - Also think crypto innovation happens in waves. mostly when the market goes down and developers need to add more innovation to the market and the innovation cycle repeats.

Right on, are there any actual projects out there that do / use any of this?

Here's a tutorial that looks interesting:

https://www.toptal.com/ethereum/one-click-login-flows-a-meta...

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