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Who the fuck wants this? The article claims to have shown why the are important but it has done nothing of the sort? > If you have ever saved one of your ticke

Who the fuck wants this? The article claims to have shown why the are important but it has done nothing of the sort? > If you have ever saved one of your ticket stubs from an event or perhaps your favorite vacation, then you understand the concept of POAPs. It's a goddamn memento, why does anyone give a shit about it enough to put it on the blockchain > Except, POAPs allow you to prove your attendance thanks to blockchain technology and store all your badges in one secure location. I just, what the fuck? Are people so self-conscious that they have to "prove" they attended a event?

derbOac 5y ago
I generally have that reaction but could think of one use of this in theory: for continuing education credits for licensed professions. That also makes me cringe but this is a common situation for e.g., physicians wanting CE credits for attending conferences.
- notpachet 5y ago
  But aren't they still transferable? Couldn't I set up easy-physician-ce.com and start hawking these things? People checking the license would need to walk back up the transaction chain to ensure that Dr Bob really did receive his directly from the issuing authority, which.... as another poster said, we're probably better off just having the authority sign a key that says that they're giving it to Dr Bob directly.
gfodor 5y ago
People like to have mementos from events and show them off. See also: t-shirts, photographs, commemorative coins, plaques. This is just a digital analog. Not complicated and I’d argue not worth being angry over.
sanderjd 5y ago
I think this stuff is very silly / trivial, but this - "why does anyone give a shit about it enough to put it on the blockchain" - suggests that blockchains are somehow only for serious things (things people "give a shit" about) and I don't at all see why that would be the case. Where I work, you get "badges" - little icons - that show up on your corporate profile for various things you do, writing some number of lines of some language, attending some training, joining some mailing list, etc. Anyone can make a badge and give it to anyone. It's just a big public (inside the company) database. It's all very silly and trivial and nobody "gives a shit" about these badges. And yet they still exist and people still create new ones. I don't see any reason throwing this same kind of thing on a public blockchain is any more silly than this. But maybe the criticism is that (as is often the case in the crypto world) this is being presented / talked about / sold as some kind of next huge serious thing. If that's the criticism, then I'm right there with you. But if the criticism is just "this is pretty silly", well, lots of stuff is, so what.
- cinquemb 5y ago
  I think because of the nature of cryptocurrency, even in a few of the DAO's im apart of, a lot of this POAP/NFT "silly" stuff gets mixed into pool with talking about return skew of underlying token trading on a dex and its effects on efficient tail risk mitigation when determining how to construct a collateralizaion contract tailored for it "serious" stuff that and passive observers just all this stuff in the same bucket (modulo centralized companies making centralized protocols trying to pitch their shitcoins[POAPS|NFTS|ERC20s] to community calls of decentralized and permissionless protocols/communities as if they are worth something).

derbOac 5y ago

I generally have that reaction but could think of one use of this in theory: for continuing education credits for licensed professions. That also makes me cringe but this is a common situation for e.g., physicians wanting CE credits for attending conferences.

notpachet 5y ago
But aren't they still transferable? Couldn't I set up easy-physician-ce.com and start hawking these things? People checking the license would need to walk back up the transaction chain to ensure that Dr Bob really did receive his directly from the issuing authority, which.... as another poster said, we're probably better off just having the authority sign a key that says that they're giving it to Dr Bob directly.

gfodor 5y ago

People like to have mementos from events and show them off. See also: t-shirts, photographs, commemorative coins, plaques. This is just a digital analog. Not complicated and I’d argue not worth being angry over.

sanderjd 5y ago

I think this stuff is very silly / trivial, but this - "why does anyone give a shit about it enough to put it on the blockchain" - suggests that blockchains are somehow only for serious things (things people "give a shit" about) and I don't at all see why that would be the case. Where I work, you get "badges" - little icons - that show up on your corporate profile for various things you do, writing some number of lines of some language, attending some training, joining some mailing list, etc. Anyone can make a badge and give it to anyone. It's just a big public (inside the company) database. It's all very silly and trivial and nobody "gives a shit" about these badges. And yet they still exist and people still create new ones. I don't see any reason throwing this same kind of thing on a public blockchain is any more silly than this. But maybe the criticism is that (as is often the case in the crypto world) this is being presented / talked about / sold as some kind of next huge serious thing. If that's the criticism, then I'm right there with you. But if the criticism is just "this is pretty silly", well, lots of stuff is, so what.

cinquemb 5y ago
I think because of the nature of cryptocurrency, even in a few of the DAO's im apart of, a lot of this POAP/NFT "silly" stuff gets mixed into pool with talking about return skew of underlying token trading on a dex and its effects on efficient tail risk mitigation when determining how to construct a collateralizaion contract tailored for it "serious" stuff that and passive observers just all this stuff in the same bucket (modulo centralized companies making centralized protocols trying to pitch their shitcoins[POAPS|NFTS|ERC20s] to community calls of decentralized and permissionless protocols/communities as if they are worth something).