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Anything referencing blockchain or cryptocurrencies is a scam. That also applies to the original Signal.
As opposed to what? If referring to Session, nobody refers to it as "the other Signal", lol
Wikipedia has a good summary for anyone unfamiliar; it's a $120 phone whitelabeled and sold for $500. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umidigi_A9
There's nothing more American than exercising your freedom to be an uninformed consumer and get swindled
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I would say that there are scenarios where blockchains are legitimately useful.
Such as?
Seriously though, blockchain is an interesting technology. It's a shame it has got such a bad rap because of its ties to cryptocurrency.
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Such as?
They are out there, and they aren't necessarily related to crypto [1] [2] Seriously though, blockchain is an interesting technology. It's a shame it has got such a bad rap because of its ties to cryptocurrency. [1] https://www.ibm.com/blockchain/use-cases/ [2] https://www.hyperledger.org/learn/case-studies
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They are out there, and they aren't necessarily related to crypto [1] [2] Seriously though, blockchain is an interesting technology. It's a shame it has got such a bad rap because of its ties to cryptocurrency. [1] https://www.ibm.com/blockchain/use-cases/ [2] https://www.hyperledger.org/learn/case-studies
None of the "research" and use cases linked need blockchains or are made better by blockchains. These are quite transparent cash grabs while hype is strong.
You can read at a speed I could only wish. Kudos.
And of course they don't "need" them. We don't necessarily "need" the cloud, Docker, or web frameworks either, yet here we are. Yes, there could be a new, completely open, distributed database that let multiple users monitor and inspect all historical changes, while allowing some others to make modifications in it.
We could just use Cassandra and build the whole distributed identity and storage infrastructure based on it.
It's not a stretch to say that the whole Blockchain industry IS MLM.
Wikipedia has a good summary for anyone unfamiliar; it's a $120 phone whitelabeled and sold for $500. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umidigi_A9
Love the irony that the "American Conservative" Freedom phone is just a generic phone from a Chinese tech company...
They lost what they valued, their leaders are selling them out, everybody laugh.
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Love the irony that the "American Conservative" Freedom phone is just a generic phone from a Chinese tech company...
Reminds me of the cooler company Blue Coolers, whose entire business model is that they source from China to compete on price against USA made Yeti coolers. The company almost didn't make it, until they had their big break selling thousands of coolers at a trucker rally. The truckers loved the cheap coolers, even though they are only cheap because they are undercutting USA made coolers with Chinese ones. False consci…
I don’t think it’s accurate to describe Yeti coolers as USA made though: https://www.allamericanmade.com/where-are-yeti-coolers-made/
For USA made, I found Cordova, which I recommend especially because they use a denser foam, so you get more storage capacity for the same exterior dimensions: https://shop.cordovaoutdoors.com/48-qt-adventurer/
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>Surely I can't be the only one who finds it incredibly frustrating to see how many people think being republican associated is noteworthy when in the context of scary privacy violations. I think the point of the conversation is that this is a bad privacy product that is being heavily marketed towards (technically) unsophisticated people who subscribe to a specific brand of politics. Those two facts aren't unrelated.…
> marketed towards (technically) unsophisticated people it's being marketed towards gullible people, period. as a conservative programmer, I saw the ad and laughed. it was called out by people in conservative online communities as well.