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So, this is my understanding. Yes, everything you said is possible. But it requires each company to build an open api and make things interoperable. Crypto pu
by Jonovono 5y ago
So, this is my understanding.
Yes, everything you said is possible. But it requires each company to build an open api and make things interoperable.
Crypto pushes things to the protocol layer https://www.usv.com/writing/2016/08/fat-protocols/ https://www.usv.com/writing/2016/08/fat-protocols/ which leads to things being interoperable. For example, https://www.blockchaingamer.biz/news/1869/the-dragon-fighting-game-that-wants-to-eat-your-cryptokitties-literally/ https://www.blockchaingamer.biz/news/1869/the-dragon-fightin....
Since the protocols are public info, you can build off of them. It's why there is so much progress in all this space because the contracts are open, you can clone them, build new ones that make use of them etc.
Try doing that in a non crypto world. You are at the mercy of what Facebook, Instagram or whatever other company decides to open up to let you build off of.
It's a push for a more open internet, imo. Where data can flow fluidly where the users want it. Contracts are build out in the open, with the incentives pushed away from the application layer (less FBs) to the protocol layer (more stripes?). Applications can build off of the protocols but they make use of open data and open protocols that other applications can easily make use of as well. Making it easier to come in and compete with the FBs of the world.
- edent 5y agoBut, and please forgive me if I am wrong, there are dozens of different protocols. So I either have to pick the "right" one - and hope it never becomes obsolete - or use several. Sure, Facebook might deprecate an API. But that doesn't stop me from being able to do generic HTTP requests for JSON documents. And, while I love decentralisation, it appears that the majority of people gravitate to big providers. Because they provide better services or a bigger audience or demonstrate more trust. And I'm still not sure what I'd use a smart contract for. Programmers don't seem any more competent than lawyers when it comes to writing bug-free documents.
- trevyn 5y agoYou appear to be jumping to conclusions before understanding the technology and ecosystem. I understand that emotions get charged around money and power, but if you’re honestly interested in the answers to your questions, it might help the learning process to take a step back and learn about the parts from a position of detached curiosity before passing judgement.
- zepto 5y agoFor those who haven’t seen this before, this kind of accusation of ‘emotion’ is a stock response to comments critical of the crypto space.
- trevyn 5y agoDo you think it is an incorrect analysis in this case? I’d love to have a discussion about the topics raised, but it’s no fun to have a discussion with someone who is repeatedly critical and a little fired up before even understanding the fundamentals. Skeptical is fine, but the specific criticisms raised don’t even make sense in the way that I understand the space.
- zepto 5y agoI don’t know anything about the other person’s emotions. I know that you are reading emotion into their comments. It’s my observation that people make comments that ‘don’t make sense in the way that I understand the space’ very frequently, and while it’s certainly an indication that we don’t understand each other, and may be an indication that someone is mistaken, it is not obviously indicative of emotion, and in any case the presence of emotion isn’t obviously indicative of incorrectness or irrationality. Regardless of the correctness of your diagnosis (which you now will never be certain of) the move is a conversational gambit that isn’t likely to lead to anything constructive.