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You gave a hypothetical example, not something you use. And to answer your question in your original post - no, blockchain would not be more convenient than us

You gave a hypothetical example, not something you use. And to answer your question in your original post - no, blockchain would not be more convenient than using my traditional bank. I can do it entirely on my phone inside an app. And every time I've compared it's significantly cheaper not to use blockchain to send someone actual money. You're giving me possible applications, not talking about you being an actual user. There are products for lots of things, that doesn't mean they have enough people using them that they're going to last. > Blockchain is moving so fast that Yearn.finance, the platform with billions in investment, wasn't even a thing a year ago. You're talking about something I've never heard of before as proof of blockchain having made it. We are on different planes here and I don't see us getting through to each other. Anyway, agree to disagree. Cheers.

seibelj 5y ago
Curve did $1 billion in volume over the past 24 hours https://curve.fi https://curve.fi That isn’t hypothetical. It’s like you keep getting refuted and then ignore reality because it disagrees with you. “Blockchain is unused.” [a bunch of links with billions of dollars in actual daily usage provided] “Oh, well, I’ve never heard of that before so it doesn’t matter.” What kind of arguing is this?
- puranjay 5y ago
  Much of HN is stuck in 2017 Blockchain era. Most haven't looked it serious since that crash. Many still think of Blockchain and can only think of BTC, LTC, Doge and ETH. DeFi is so new that it even caught HN off guard.
  - 1ark 5y ago
    Much of HN is also middle of the curve and don't care/know about finance. Finance, financial engineering and P2P is a different beast compared to deploying bloated Docker containers running React frontends. It's a shame because there are a lot of smart people here that could help working on sustainable economics for fun and profit.
  - hungryforcodes 5y ago
    This seems to be one of the problems. The other is just a weird contrarianism -- many on HN want open source software and systems, but in no way do they want an open economy or money system.
- qeternity 5y ago
  Curve is just leverage for speculation: deposit token A, withdraw token B, earn the appreciation on both token A and B. Speculation is still the only use case. DeFi provides absolutely nothing novel. Nobody said it wasn’t used. They asked for a non speculative, “real” use case.
  - puranjay 5y ago
    By that standard, majority of Wall Street has no use case either, since much of the money is made entirely on speculation. Is betting on whether oil price will go up or down really that much of a use case? Unless you count making money as not enough of a use case. I give up though. HN will willfully ignore crypto and miss out not only on life changing money, but one of the few places in tech that is still fun and exciting and hasn’t been “corporatized”.
    - BigBubbleButt 5y ago
      > Unless you count making money as not enough of a use case. So then you're agreeing that the only real use case for crypto is speculation, and not something normal people should care about. > By that standard, majority of Wall Street has no use case either, since much of the money is made entirely on speculation. I think most educated people would agree that Wall St is a drain on society the same as targeted ads. The world is better without it. Are ads also useful because of how much money they make? > HN will willfully ignore crypto and miss out not only on life changing money, but one of the few places in tech that is still fun and exciting and hasn’t been “corporatized”. I really hope you're not so naïve that you don't realize crypto markets are being manipulated by big banks.
      - puranjay 5y ago
        Right now, if I want to invest in US stocks, I have to go through a handful of local brokers. They want a minimum of 10k inr in the trading account. I have to clear kyc and get my account approved. Once approved, they can shut down the account anytime for any reason. And all of these are recent developments - until a couple of years ago, it wasn’t even possible to invest in US stocks. Alternatively, I can buy tokenized versions of popular stocks. This will be an erc-20 token that I will have full custody of at all times. I do not have to get “approved” or have a minimum amount in my account. I can be an investor in, say, AAPL with any amount of money from any part of the world. Unlike my own local stock markets that are filled with insider trading and subpar companies, I get to invest in and gain wealth from a more competitive market - without ever needing anyone’s permission. Do you consider financial inclusivity a bad thing? Would you say that having control over your own money and removing gatekeepers is good?

seibelj 5y ago

Curve did $1 billion in volume over the past 24 hours https://curve.fi https://curve.fi That isn’t hypothetical. It’s like you keep getting refuted and then ignore reality because it disagrees with you. “Blockchain is unused.” [a bunch of links with billions of dollars in actual daily usage provided] “Oh, well, I’ve never heard of that before so it doesn’t matter.” What kind of arguing is this?

puranjay 5y ago
Much of HN is stuck in 2017 Blockchain era. Most haven't looked it serious since that crash. Many still think of Blockchain and can only think of BTC, LTC, Doge and ETH. DeFi is so new that it even caught HN off guard.
- 1ark 5y ago
  Much of HN is also middle of the curve and don't care/know about finance. Finance, financial engineering and P2P is a different beast compared to deploying bloated Docker containers running React frontends. It's a shame because there are a lot of smart people here that could help working on sustainable economics for fun and profit.
- hungryforcodes 5y ago
  This seems to be one of the problems. The other is just a weird contrarianism -- many on HN want open source software and systems, but in no way do they want an open economy or money system.
qeternity 5y ago
Curve is just leverage for speculation: deposit token A, withdraw token B, earn the appreciation on both token A and B. Speculation is still the only use case. DeFi provides absolutely nothing novel. Nobody said it wasn’t used. They asked for a non speculative, “real” use case.
- puranjay 5y ago
  By that standard, majority of Wall Street has no use case either, since much of the money is made entirely on speculation. Is betting on whether oil price will go up or down really that much of a use case? Unless you count making money as not enough of a use case. I give up though. HN will willfully ignore crypto and miss out not only on life changing money, but one of the few places in tech that is still fun and exciting and hasn’t been “corporatized”.
  - BigBubbleButt 5y ago
    > Unless you count making money as not enough of a use case. So then you're agreeing that the only real use case for crypto is speculation, and not something normal people should care about. > By that standard, majority of Wall Street has no use case either, since much of the money is made entirely on speculation. I think most educated people would agree that Wall St is a drain on society the same as targeted ads. The world is better without it. Are ads also useful because of how much money they make? > HN will willfully ignore crypto and miss out not only on life changing money, but one of the few places in tech that is still fun and exciting and hasn’t been “corporatized”. I really hope you're not so naïve that you don't realize crypto markets are being manipulated by big banks.
    - puranjay 5y ago
      Right now, if I want to invest in US stocks, I have to go through a handful of local brokers. They want a minimum of 10k inr in the trading account. I have to clear kyc and get my account approved. Once approved, they can shut down the account anytime for any reason. And all of these are recent developments - until a couple of years ago, it wasn’t even possible to invest in US stocks. Alternatively, I can buy tokenized versions of popular stocks. This will be an erc-20 token that I will have full custody of at all times. I do not have to get “approved” or have a minimum amount in my account. I can be an investor in, say, AAPL with any amount of money from any part of the world. Unlike my own local stock markets that are filled with insider trading and subpar companies, I get to invest in and gain wealth from a more competitive market - without ever needing anyone’s permission. Do you consider financial inclusivity a bad thing? Would you say that having control over your own money and removing gatekeepers is good?