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Yet somehow the human race survived for 200,000 years without a block chain.
by TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
Yet somehow the human race survived for 200,000 years without a block chain.
- jancsika 5y agoExactly my point: just imagine how fascinating the next 200,000 years will be with blockchain! When you think in those terms you realize how shameful it is that, say, HN isn't getting in on the ground floor and spawning a worker in every reader's browser to mine crypto. The energy expended to mine Bitcoin pales in comparison to the early mover opportunities lost each day from lack of action.
- colejohnson66 5y agoNot really a valid argument. We survived millennia without a lot of things. The Industrial Revolution was only two centuries ago. It doesn't mean life was necessarily better before then.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoTrue. What I’m trying to say is that Twitter in a block chain would probably be an awful user experience.
- brk 5y agoTwitter could be improved by requiring a proof of work effort before posting any tweets. The effort could be computational, or just proof of fact checking and basic proofreading would go a long way.
- auntienomen 5y ago"Proof of thought"
- CyberDildonics 5y agoTwitter is already an awful user experience.
- ssivark 5y agoOTOH -- Twitter (on the blockchain) supporting only ~10 tweets per second is a blessing in disguise that would drastically help improve the user experience by imposing a high cost on junk :P
- cuteboy19 5y agoPeople would get into bidding wars for the next tweet
- parineum 5y agoImagine a platform where tweets were so expensive only the rich could speak!
- jakupovic 5y agoOr similarly a world where one pays to read tweets.
- Daviey 5y ago~$0.001 USD is the current cost for gas on Polygon for a transaction. If people have to pay credits to tweet (even this little), I would expect the quality to increase.
- parineum 5y agoHow will being attached to something as valuable as speech change the value of that?