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This piece is fantastically calculated marketing material given the recent Discord news. - "Blockchain" != cryptocurrency (and using Bitcoin as the primary bog

This piece is fantastically calculated marketing material given the recent Discord news. - "Blockchain" != cryptocurrency (and using Bitcoin as the primary bogeyman is silly given no one is using Bitcoin assets to authenticate into Discord groups; Ethereum is quite public about their ultimate desire to move to PoS) - Why note the "idealism" of folks in the space and then going on to completely ignoring the promise of web3? - The fact that an open source communication tool by its nature is ripe for usage by "scammers" seems hypocritical. Will Zulip abandon the Apache license if crypto "scammers" start using it?

pavlov 5y ago
Why note the "fanaticism" of Scientologists and then go on to completely ignore the promise of eliminating thetan alien souls polluting your mind and body?
- ccamrobertson 5y ago
  Then the writer should have used “fanaticism”, a negative term, not “idealism”.
paulryanrogers 5y ago
Wait, is blockchain now web3?
- floatboth 5y ago
  "web3" is Ethereum's term for the API that lets web pages do things with your Ethereum client. It's also a vague marketing idea for some kind of a future web that also involves hosting pages on IPFS and registering domains with Ethereum, and still letting these pages do Ethereum things. It's all pretty stupid.
  - antifa 5y ago
    I remember when Web 3.0 refered to things more like IoT, which is still probably going to be more relevant to our daily lives and less niche than blockchain.
    - floatboth 5y ago
      Back in the day™ web 3.0 referred to Semantic Web stuff. IoT rarely used "web" terms?
floatboth 5y ago
> "Blockchain" != cryptocurrency Public blockchain basically means cryptocurrency-like things. It's all about transfers of value: whether it's coins, domain names or stupid cryptokitties — it's all about tradeable things, so it's all the same shit. > Ethereum is quite public about their ultimate desire to move to PoS Promises and desires do not matter. It could end up with them endlessly finding security issues with PoS and postponing the switch. And… surprise, the miners probably won't just stop mining! They'll switch to Ethereum Classic or fork again! Most importantly, the shitcoin economy must be viewed as a whole. You cannot just view one coin in isolation and say "it's green because non-PoW". The value of that coin is all tied up in exchange with other coins!

pavlov 5y ago

Why note the "fanaticism" of Scientologists and then go on to completely ignore the promise of eliminating thetan alien souls polluting your mind and body?

ccamrobertson 5y ago
Then the writer should have used “fanaticism”, a negative term, not “idealism”.

paulryanrogers 5y ago

Wait, is blockchain now web3?

floatboth 5y ago
"web3" is Ethereum's term for the API that lets web pages do things with your Ethereum client. It's also a vague marketing idea for some kind of a future web that also involves hosting pages on IPFS and registering domains with Ethereum, and still letting these pages do Ethereum things. It's all pretty stupid.
- antifa 5y ago
  I remember when Web 3.0 refered to things more like IoT, which is still probably going to be more relevant to our daily lives and less niche than blockchain.
  - floatboth 5y ago
    Back in the day™ web 3.0 referred to Semantic Web stuff. IoT rarely used "web" terms?

floatboth 5y ago

> "Blockchain" != cryptocurrency Public blockchain basically means cryptocurrency-like things. It's all about transfers of value: whether it's coins, domain names or stupid cryptokitties — it's all about tradeable things, so it's all the same shit. > Ethereum is quite public about their ultimate desire to move to PoS Promises and desires do not matter. It could end up with them endlessly finding security issues with PoS and postponing the switch. And… surprise, the miners probably won't just stop mining! They'll switch to Ethereum Classic or fork again! Most importantly, the shitcoin economy must be viewed as a whole. You cannot just view one coin in isolation and say "it's green because non-PoW". The value of that coin is all tied up in exchange with other coins!