i think handshake and gns are pretty cool.
I don't know about Handshake, but GNS isn't block-chain. As far as I understand, it's a distributed hash-table:
I Looked into 34 Top Real-World Blockchain Projects So You Don’t Have To
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#22I kinda question the scientific methodology of "take the first N Google results". Not only for obvious reasons, but also for the reason that a lot of infrastructural projects that have a lot of real world effects are not routinely discussed in the press (because they are extremely boring to everybody but specialists, also because nobody but the specialists knows they exist, or understands how they work) and thus woul…
He didn't "take the first N Google results". Read the top of the article again. He took the projects listed in this article https://builtin.com/blockchain/blockchain-applications on this basis:
> Apart from being the top #1 result, and a reasonably recent article, Builtin.com has 300+ employees (per linkedin), and is a company built around the tech startup community. Part of their business seems to be maintaining a database of startup companies, including the ones mentioned in the Blockchain article — so they have some business incentive for the data to be accurate.
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#23Even 3D TV got further. You could actually buy 3D TVs for a while. There were, briefly, a few shows you could actually watch.
The PS4 supports it, even! I dunno if it just sort of works for everything if you turn it on, or if games have to explicitly support it; my projector has 3d capabilities but I never bothered buying the goggles to see it.
Edit: well it used to support it, it seems to be gone from the settings now.
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#24Or read the bitcoin white paper, understand the tech and then you'd know these are all scams and move on with your life. Opps I mentioned bitcoin and forgot about "blockchains" immaculate conception
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#25Extremely relevant simple chart: NIST's answer to "Do you need a blockchain?" : https://m.imgur.com/a/RlUj9Ed
In the last few steps, going from “Yes, you need trust-less updates” to “” to “Meh whatever, just use a regular database!” seems a bit lacking in short-term memory…
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#26I have an extremely low opinion of blockchain/crypto, but in the interest of fairness, I did read an FT piece a few months ago about how banks are apparently actually using the blockchain for currency trading: "HSBC and Wells Fargo are cutting out a key part of the currency market’s infrastructure from some trades after the two banks agreed to settle transactions directly on blockchain technology. From Monday, they w…
That sounds to me like someone used excitement about "blockchain" as an excuse to upgrade a two-decades old system to something a bit more modern.
It looks like it's a private blockchain shared between two (at the moment) institutions, which means it's probably being used basically as an append-only log.
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#27You know how “the brightest minds of our generation spent the last decade on ads”? I’m just glad they clearly stuck with ads and let all these scam projects rot.
We’re out hiring right now and it’s shocking how many people have a career filled totally with dodgy cryptocurrency nonsense. Loads of designers and developers have most of their experience in platforms that seem to have no utility beyond scams, gambling, and MLMs. There certainly is a massive amount of wasted talent here.
What do you think is wrong with gambling?
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#28Extremely relevant simple chart: NIST's answer to "Do you need a blockchain?" : https://m.imgur.com/a/RlUj9Ed
This is wrong. Blockchains validate data. Their purpose isn't to store it. Mostly the answer to do you need a blockchain is no
The purpose of bitcoin, for example, is not to store a list of transactions?
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#29I kinda question the scientific methodology of "take the first N Google results". Not only for obvious reasons, but also for the reason that a lot of infrastructural projects that have a lot of real world effects are not routinely discussed in the press (because they are extremely boring to everybody but specialists, also because nobody but the specialists knows they exist, or understands how they work) and thus woul…
The list wasn't taken from the top N google results, the list was hand-curated by a web3-focused publication, and was found by a google search. It would be like a construction-focused publication hand-curating the top N/most important N construction projects in the world, of which N-1 are some mixture of cancelled, fictional, or not actually having anything to do with construction. It would, of course, be utterly far…
builtin.com does not seem to have any specific focus on blockchain - their site says "Built In is the online community for startups and tech companies. Find startup jobs, tech news and events" and their "Our story" page does not seem to mention blockchain or crypto at all, and if anything, is focused on recruiting ("career" is mentioned a lot). I have no idea how they ended up being #1 in google for that specific query, maybe mostly because of randomly matching some search terms, or they have a very good SEO team.
The author's credentials are:
Sam Daley is a Built In associate product manager who formerly covered AI, blockchain and emerging tech trends for BuiltIn.com. Prior to Built In, Daley worked as a CNN production assistant and development coordinator for Rotary International.
Which does not suggest he has any special insight into any blockchain technology or industry beyond being assigned to "write about all that new stuff because you young people understand those". OTOH, his previous title on Linkedin is "SEO Strategist" - which may be the explanation for the #1 result. At least we know he's good at that job, congrats, Sam. His credentials on being the arbiter of blockchain project prominence are still not clear - and I suspect his methodology of compiling the list differs little from the original article's methodology. Maybe I'm wrong but his bio doesn't show any signs of any relation to crypto. Maybe he still has huge knowledge of it, I don't know, there's no way for me to see it at least.
So, not a "construction-focused publication" but more like "local newspaper worker who covers any news about manufacturing industry, construction, agriculture, food industry and anything else nobody wants to". So yeah, random list of startups has most of them dead or pivoted in several years. That's how it works with startups.
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#30> Algorand, Gemini & Circle: Crypto only > Not real-world projects. As discussed in the introduction, I am only discussing projects that have real-world effects outside of cryptocurrency balances. Gemini, Circle as exchanges, and Algorand as a Blockchain implementation, don’t qualify here – they don’t actually add real-world utility other than moving tokens around. Interesting take. These are very different "projects…
Would you be so kind as to cherry-pick a few successful "real world" Blockchain projects then?
There are a lot of successful blockchain projects that respond to various use cases. On top of my head:
- Uncensorable money: og bitcoin and pretty much everything else
- Uncensorable money + privacy: monero, tornado.cash, etc.
- Decentralized exchanges/automated market makers: curve.fi, uniswap, etc.
- Prediction markets: polymarket etc.
EDIT: looks like omen and augur are dead