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When you're talking about people's money, just following tutorials and piecing something together does not cut it.
by wildbunny 9y ago
When you're talking about people's money, just following tutorials and piecing something together does not cut it.
- dguaraglia 9y agoI don't think anyone is suggesting taking this and publishing as the latest niche 'WhateverCoin'.
- wildbunny 9y agoIndeed. But there is a lot of talk about bitcoin and blockchain in general lately, and a lot of existing cryptocurrencies which are unworkable, created by people who want to get rich quick.
- cableshaft 9y agoFor sure. But those people probably don't bother trying to make their own implementation of the protocol. The code is out there for them to just go 'copy+paste, change a few config settings, done'. They're essentially the script kiddies of the cryptocurrency world. But me, I'm not planning on starting a coin, although I'm pretty interested in the tech behind it, albeit not enough to deep dive into the white papers and code, at least not yet. So I thought this was a nice byte-size chunk and was informative.
- wildbunny 9y agoThat's fair enough.
- todd_wanna_code 9y agoI don't think BlockChain is about creating a newer coin, it's just interesting as a topic.
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- dang 9y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14796915 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14796915 and marked it off-topic.
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