Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing
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Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing
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Re: Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing
#2Responding to title only: of course, but the things it _is_ a solution for will be world changing.
Re: Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing
#3There are precisely two legitimately useful applications of the blockchain data structure that have been invented:
1. Money 2. Zooko's Triangle
Your prior should be that anything else is some kind of delusion or scam.
Re: Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing
#4Can we add Graph Databases to the list of things that are kinda cool but with very limited applications too?
Re: Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing
#5Can we add Graph Databases to the list of things that are kinda cool but with very limited applications too?
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#6It's the evolution of buzzwords. Back in the day people used buzzwords that were nonspecific enough you could apply them to almost any solution. Synergy, paradigm, leverage, etc. Today's buzzwords have very specific meanings but are flexible enough you can convince people they're the solution to any problem. Blockchain, AI, machine learning, etc.
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#7> But isn’t it strange that you won all those awards, even though you aren’t actually using the blockchain?
Kinda like all those AI startups that aren't actually using AI.
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#8An article about blockchain where the thesis is that it doesn't solve any problems and it doesn't even mention Ethereum? This article is extremely poorly researched (maybe on purpose) and reads like clickbait.
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#9Ctrl+F proof of stake. Author didn’t do much homework. Just retreading the same criticisms about energy consumption and this-could-just-be-a-postgres-db-hosted-on-cloud-megacorp.
Crypto is a bubble but it’s also a space solving difficult problems that will shape how the world transacts. It’s volatile because it’s difficult and hard to understand, but that doesn’t mean there’s no value.
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#10The 402 response code in HTTP might be a useful thing to "hook up" to Lightning, which itself is useful because of the Bitcoin blockchain.
Having fast micropayments payments running on data requests is useful for a wide variety of cloud applications, including but not limited to data transfer costs and queries to machine learning models, all without the need for "users" on the systems being accessed.
The way I'd put it is that the killer use case for Bitcoin is yet to come, which doesn't make it a solution for nothing, but more like a solution before its time.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/402