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A $232M Cryptocurrency Fight Comes to a Close
- neonate 9y agohttp://archive.is/M9XLp http://archive.is/M9XLp (It would be nice if more people would start doing this. It seems to be the closest we can get to something that just works at the moment.)
- manigandham 9y agoOr we could let the publisher make money... subscribe or skip the article.
- literallycancer 9y agoHow about not posting pay-walled crap in the first place? It's like telling your friends about an article and then asking them to buy the paper, instead of telling them what it was about.
- manigandham 9y agoSure, that works too, although I wouldn't call it crap just because you don't subscribe to the publisher either. Judging by your other comment, blocking both ads and paywalls seems rather indefensible if you feel entitled to reading their content.
- DennisP 9y agoSince ads sometimes carry malware, disabling them is just self defense. Paywalls are marginally sensible for really major publishers, but not that sensible because we're in an environment where we consume articles individually from lots of different sources. Micropayments per article could work if enough of the article is available for free so I can decide whether it's worth paying a tiny bit to read the rest. To get halfway back to the original topic, maybe cryptocurrency could help with that.
- manigandham 9y agoThen don't read it? A payment model you don't like doesn't mean you still get to have the product. I don't like how some software has only annual licenses but I don't get to run it anyway because I don't think it's fair.
- xor1 9y agoYour initial complaint is that the publisher should be allowed to make money. What difference does it make to you if someone reads without giving them ad revenue or doesn't read it at all?
- manigandham 9y agoWhat difference does anyone's behavior in the world make to you? If that's the question then nothing is worth discussing unless you're directly affected by it and really doesn't lead anywhere productive.
- mwilkison 9y agoI just tried to subscribe. Their registration is broken.
- literallycancer 9y agoMake WSJ & NYTimes Great Again: https://github.com/njuljsong/wsjUnblock https://github.com/njuljsong/wsjUnblock
- QML 9y agoAdd “outline.com/“ to the front of the url — it also gets past the paywall.
- neonate 9y agoThanks!
- justboxing 9y agoOutline is even better. https://outline.com/YgWtxK https://outline.com/YgWtxK
- mathgenius 9y agoSuch hilarity: """ The Breitmans began Tezos, which is a software platform, four years ago in a bid to address some of the governance issues that have surrounded other cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.... The ensuing dispute over control of the $232 million ... """
- splintercell 9y agoIt's funny though, but understandable. The platform must be built in a world where the problem platform is trying to solve exists. That's like laughing at Seamless for being unable to order food for its employees, but Seamless hasn't launched yet.
- dannyw 9y agoI think it’s more like “Seamless team gets taken out by food poisoning from Seamless delivery”.
- arenaninja 9y agoExactly my first thought. A coin to address governance issues lacks access to its own funds due to governance issues. Poe's law in full display.
- Alex3917 9y agoThey're the foundation's funds, the developers were never supposed to have access to them.
- isubkhankulov 9y agoThe Breitmans took over the project less than a year before the ICO. Proof can be found on twitter, where the original paper's author posted that he is handing the project over.
- relyio 9y agoLeah M Goodman is the journalist who wrote the Newsweek article about Dorian Nakamoto. It is also a pen name used by the Breitman as a joke.
- JustAnotherPat 9y agoLet's hope the SEC throws these two scam artists in jail soon.
- literallycancer 9y agoHow about not talking shit about things you don't understand?
- mmanfrin 9y agoThis is fantastic news. I think there is definite potential in both the token itself (given that it holds about a billion dollars now) and in the language backing it.
- headsoup 9y agoI still don't understand how so much money gets raised for these ICOs in the first place. Then I remember people are often stupid and many other people like taking advantage of stupidity.
- product50 9y agoAnd then you look at Ethereum which is a $90B valuation and also wonder if it can have competitors. Tezos is a full fledged Eth competitor with its own USPs.
- jameskegel 9y ago>tezos is a full fledged Eth competitor This is inaccurate
- product50 9y agoNo it is not. Read about tezos and then come back.
- jameskegel 9y agoI'm back, and forgive me if we're going in circles here, but I still am confident in my assertion. Is there something specific that you know that the general public does not?
- product50 9y agoIt is fine. I don't want to feed ignorance here. It is pretty clear you have no idea what Tezos is and haven't done any bit of cursory research on it. And, to folks like you, my only advise is to wait and watch for the token to be released and then you will witness how it competes with Eth ecosystem.
- jameskegel 9y ago
- lee101 9y agoPretty amazing how they managed to raise this much money, i thought it would just fizzle out after they have raised such absorbident amounts of money they would run out of incentive. its not like a traditional acquisition where they are contractually obliged to make good on their ICO promises, ICO participants often forget they are in a sense buying part of a company that is up for sale (why?). For a legitimate Crypto company that hasn't ICO'ed or raised money checkout my company https://bitbank.nz https://bitbank.nz which is forecasting cryptocurrency prices :)
- philfrasty 9y agoCan someone explain how one foundation (that manages a BILLION dollars) can simply be replaced by a new foundation? Having talked to some lawyers in this space during the last weeks I have come to understand how much money is involved here in compensation/fees/listing-fees/advisor-compensation/etc. It is insane. So not really surprised any more regarding their internal conflicts for $$$.