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No, my comment is based primarily on the narrow scope of the publication, which to my mind, as a lifelong publisher of online and offline media, seems excessive
by sparkzilla 8y ago
No, my comment is based primarily on the narrow scope of the publication, which to my mind, as a lifelong publisher of online and offline media, seems excessive. If they were using an ICO to raise the same amount of money for the same project scope I'd also think that excessive.
As for my own project, we have a much wider goal (to convert all the world's news -- past and present -- into data that can be used as a platform for applications) that obviously requires far more investment than a niche content site.
- atomical 8y agoLike someone else said it costs big money to hire people and retain them over 10 years. They have a reasonable startup objective where as your startup is taking advantage of naive investors that want to invest in X meets blockchain. None of the copy on your site communicates that you have even a basic understanding of blockchain. You can't throw blockchain at "fake news" and expect a different outcome.
- sparkzilla 8y ago>your startup is taking advantage of naive investors that want to invest in X meets blockchain. False. Please tell me another technology that will allow us to build a decentralised, failure-tolerant, censorship- and tamper-resistant archive of all the world's news, that has been converted into data and independently verified, and that anyone can use to create news applications. To avoid any accusation of threadjacking, if you'd like to discuss NewsBlocks further, please do so on the 'Show HN' page page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17947364 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17947364