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The obviously convincing argument would be - after ten years - "something to show for it all." That is, something that blockchain is clearly and obviously the
by davidgerard 8y ago
The obviously convincing argument would be - after ten years - "something to show for it all."
That is, something that blockchain is clearly and obviously the use case for.
"Potential" goes only so far. Eventually you need kinetic.
- airstrike 8y agoInterstellar BBS log
- wefarrell 8y agoBuying and selling illicit products on the internet.
- smt88 8y agoOr in-person. Any criminal transactions, really (drugs, weapons, people, etc.)
- bigiain 8y ago> Where cash is still a better alternative. I suspect not too many drug dealers or gun runners want to wait around 20 mins staring at their phone (with a traceable internet connection) for 2 confirmations before declaring the deal "done"...
- smt88 8y agoI've read that it's done more like escrow. The buyer creates a new wallet, the seller verifies the amount in the wallet, and then the buyer hands over the keys when the merchandise is transferred.
- bigiain 8y agoThat's smart. The seller still needs to make sure the buyer can't get a transaction transferring the coins back into a wallet under their control confirmed before the seller can move them out. (I'm now vaguely curious about how the financial transactions on shipping container sized sales of guns/drugs work. But I'm not about to Google _that_...)
- darawk 8y agoProgrammable money is not a thing to show?
- davidgerard 8y agoso far its overwhelming use case has been selling people questionable ICO tokens, so you'll excuse me if I'm not convinced by the observable outputs