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That's curiosity traffic. People who experiment with new exciting tech as it comes out. When new tech is announced, they move on. This is a good indicator of a
by john_moscow 6y ago
That's curiosity traffic. People who experiment with new exciting tech as it comes out. When new tech is announced, they move on.
This is a good indicator of a technology's novelty, but it has zero correlation with the product/market fit.
- thatcat 6y agoIt’s been used to prevent denial of service, such as in the Catalina succession vote.
- chrisco255 6y agoI don't know if you knew this or not, but at one time in the not too distant past, the internet as a whole was a curiosity only used by geeks. And before that, only total nerds in their mom's basement used personal computers.
- redis_mlc 6y ago> I don't know if you knew this or not [HN pendantry deleted] ... And, of course, Shitcoins == Internet, as all trve bitcoin fanbois believe. You're like those religious nuts with megaphones on downtown street corners - can anybody tell the difference?
- zaarn 6y agoYes but from that it does not follow that filecoin will experience the same kind of growth. Internet = Once curiosity, small, for geeks Internet = Success Filecoin = Is curiosity, small, for geeks It is untrue that automatically follows Filecoin = Success
- solarkraft 6y agoThis shouldn't be down voted, it's an important thing to point out. IPFS doesn't really have a killer app people actually care about as long as we're not actually interplanetary - the internet connection from any point to another on the planet is generally good enough.