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I read that paragraph as they have moved on from “scummy Etherium ... nonsense”. We always need convenient monikers for concepts and while “dapp” isn’t the mos

I read that paragraph as they have moved on from “scummy Etherium ... nonsense”. We always need convenient monikers for concepts and while “dapp” isn’t the most elegant, it is no worse than “cloud”. The fact that people are putting their creative energies into decentralised technology (which is very much swimming against the current and involves solving many very difficult problems) is to be applauded.

DyslexicAtheist 7y ago
seriously, I do applaud the efforts of the p2p community. But the Blockchain/ETH/IOTA/whatever crowd isn't creating anything that works. The more serious people in academia who are working on it dismiss critics and they'll tell you "well the tech is still young, and its promises shouldn't be dismissed". That is great but then stop peddling it like it's the best thing since tabbed browsing. As for this specific project ... Before I'll applaud a project that references ETH and talks about "web3" (tHe fUtuRe oF tHE wEb) they should produce something that isn't a scam. There are literally thousands of them: https://cryptoscamdb.org/scams/ https://cryptoscamdb.org/scams/ (filter for ETHEREUM). ETH has shown during the infamous fork that you can't build anything worthwhile based on these systems and their past behavior clearly indicates they took money from people without knowing what they're doing. Fake it till you make it at its finest. All these things are broken not because the tech is flawed but the assumptions that in case something goes wrong the system can self-correct without human intervention. In the smart-contract world "a bug" literally means either total failure of the project (and bankruptcy of the company backing it). Another problem is that the community is so ignorant that they call anyone who criticizes them as shills the same way people in my camp do. They are the anti-vaxxers and flat-earthers of Tech! -> at least until they can proof (not on paper but with real life projects) that this isn't the case.

DyslexicAtheist 7y ago

seriously, I do applaud the efforts of the p2p community. But the Blockchain/ETH/IOTA/whatever crowd isn't creating anything that works. The more serious people in academia who are working on it dismiss critics and they'll tell you "well the tech is still young, and its promises shouldn't be dismissed". That is great but then stop peddling it like it's the best thing since tabbed browsing. As for this specific project ... Before I'll applaud a project that references ETH and talks about "web3" (tHe fUtuRe oF tHE wEb) they should produce something that isn't a scam. There are literally thousands of them: https://cryptoscamdb.org/scams/ https://cryptoscamdb.org/scams/ (filter for ETHEREUM). ETH has shown during the infamous fork that you can't build anything worthwhile based on these systems and their past behavior clearly indicates they took money from people without knowing what they're doing. Fake it till you make it at its finest. All these things are broken not because the tech is flawed but the assumptions that in case something goes wrong the system can self-correct without human intervention. In the smart-contract world "a bug" literally means either total failure of the project (and bankruptcy of the company backing it). Another problem is that the community is so ignorant that they call anyone who criticizes them as shills the same way people in my camp do. They are the anti-vaxxers and flat-earthers of Tech! -> at least until they can proof (not on paper but with real life projects) that this isn't the case.