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> How do I pay with cryptocurrency? > Easy, you just need to convert it to USD first. > Is this for real? > Sure > Is this performance art? > Maybe? Love it. I think Roy's making a killing off this.
Cash FTW!
I see that CSVCHAIN is "held in cold storage on this USB drive" a 1 GB thumb drive. This seems to imply an upper bound on the number of NFTs on CSVCHAIN. How, I wonder, does the creator of this project expect to scale CSVCHAIN beyond this limit? Additionally, can we secure guarantees that the project owner is safely ejecting the USB drive in question?
Where's the smart contract capability? Smart contracts are important in certain applications, which is why I store purchases in XML and do transformative contracts in XSLT. Version 2.0 of XSLT is Turing-Complete, with the added advantage that XSLT syntax is a specialized form of XML, so I only have to use one syntax for coins and contracts. I call mine Dotcom Bubble Chain.
Meh, why use XSLT when you could use Lisp? It's also homoiconic and you can claim it involves AI.
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> The thing is, we saw these jokes about Bitcoin 10+ years ago. The bulk of which are probably still valid today, but you can’t understand because you have conflated price with value.
> you have conflated price with value. This is a key point of discussion. You and OP probably have very different definitions of value; you can be 100% right from your perspective and 100% wrong from theirs. And if that's the case, you need to unify your definitions of value before you can discuss the merits of anything built on top of that definition. Or just agree to disagree.
Frankly I find it hard to do, when depending on who you’re talking to, the intended utility is not even definitive (e.g. a currency vs a “store of value”). Maybe this points at something larger.
Wow, transaction confirmation times are really slow. I've been waiting for my purchase to go through for an hour now.
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Meh, why use XSLT when you could use Lisp? It's also homoiconic and you can claim it involves AI.
I'm working on something even better. XMLambda (XMλ) implemented in Haskell, which is revolutionary and exciting such that I have investors throwing money bags of money over my backyard fence with a paper contracts attached (they don't trust other chains) https://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/XMLambda
Where's the smart contract capability? Smart contracts are important in certain applications, which is why I store purchases in XML and do transformative contracts in XSLT. Version 2.0 of XSLT is Turing-Complete, with the added advantage that XSLT syntax is a specialized form of XML, so I only have to use one syntax for coins and contracts. I call mine Dotcom Bubble Chain.
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No, it's a thorough gotcha for a shallow topic to which money has given the illusion of depth. If you need a centralized entity to enforce the rights associated with a decentralized system, the decentralized system is unnecessary. We've long had solutions for the purchase of digital assets on any platform you choose, with ownership and usage rights enforced by the state.
Exactly. This is my problem with all these things people claim blockchain technology will solve. People think it's magically going to solve all the problems created by the government. They think it's a work around to fix corruption. No matter how hard you blockchain you're still under the law of the government. You still have to pay taxes in your country's currency. Your "decentralized" blockchain still relies on cen…
They knew that when it was created that States would crush it like they had crushed other attempt. With Bitcoin, they could not. I don't think its safe to say its under the law. The law is to the side. Bitcoin exists in a numerical and computation universe that cares not for the laws of man.