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People are so upset about blockchain being useless. Meanwhile I use it regularly to do business transactions from the command line and shell scripts, which app
by mbrock 9y ago
People are so upset about blockchain being useless.
Meanwhile I use it regularly to do business transactions from the command line and shell scripts, which appeals to me greatly as a hacker who does business.
Open source finance! It's the future, guys.
Sorry about the speculative bubble. It's not really my fault though. Traders and investors are a bit crazy.
- banachtarski 9y agoYou don't need a blockchain to "do business transactions from the command line and shell scripts" so I don't find your personal counterexample particularly compelling
- mbrock 9y agoWhich alternative are you referring to?
- banachtarski 9y agoAny of the available stock, forex, merchant, payment APIs anywhere. You have zillions of options (stripe, etrade, paypal, a bunch of banks have APIs, soon you'll have a Venmo API, other payment applications are coming up). The notion of a scriptable transaction has literally nothing to do with a blockchain.
- mbrock 9y agoThose aren't as convenient for me as blockchain, and of course they all involve centralized counterparties with proprietary APIs. As far as I know there is no bank in my country with a usable API. Blockchain is just a nice and easy open source solution that works great worldwide.