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> If only there were some kind of decentralized linked list of prohibitively-expensive-to-counterfeit ordered records that he could have leveraged to prove to t

> If only there were some kind of decentralized linked list of prohibitively-expensive-to-counterfeit ordered records that he could have leveraged to prove to the world that his twelfth statement preceded hers. The Tweets have timestamps. No blockchain required. The whole point of threading is to group Tweets in order as posted by the author and put replies below them. It wouldn't make sense to throw a bunch of Tweets and replies in chronological order and force the users to try to figure out which Tweet was in response to which parent Tweet.

aaronchall 5y ago
This is so obvious to me that I'm having trouble reading their post as anything but tongue-in-cheek. But perhaps they were indeed being sincere? EDIT: On review of their prior posts, it looks like they were.
- PragmaticPulp 5y ago
  There's a "blockchain solves everything" mentality that's prevalent in certain web3 communities. It's fueled by the fact that there really aren't many, or perhaps any, usable web3 platforms that do anything beyond distributed ledger or NFT type stuff. Obviously nothing in web3 even resembles the scale and speed and ease of use of Twitter. This has left the door wide open for futurists to paint the most idealistic picture possible of what web3 will look like. Blockchain technology is largely irrelevant to the projections (because it's boring). Instead, the projections suggest to solve all of the various social and legal problems in unspecified ways, with "web3" used as the excuse. It goes hand-in-hand with the idea that big corporations are evil and bad for users, but democratizing ownership will change all of that. Nevermind the fact that the big corporations are already publicly traded and you can buy a share of them today if you want, which isn't actually very different than buying governance tokens of a web3 system. The people with the most money and insider connections (to get early coins at a steep discount) are still going to be the ones calling the shots and shaping the systems to derive profits for themselves. There's nothing magical about web3 that stops people with money from buying outsized influence.
  - nefitty 5y ago
    In addition, blockchain tech reduces the friction of obscuring money and data flows. This is good for unaccountable power. Government is not perfect, but it at least pretends to be accountable power.
- jancsika 5y ago
  It's a shitpost-- blockchain wouldn't even have helped him here because he posted number 12 after hers. But now I'm wondering who exactly is upvoting the comment. To be clear-- Bitcoin is an energy-gobbling database sync party trick. We would have been better off wildly exaggerating the potential of sleep sort for the past decade and a half.
spamalot159 5y ago
I believe that the comment you are replying to is sarcastic.
- mcv 5y ago
  "Believe"? That comment broke my sarcasm detector.
squabble 5y ago
The timestamps can be changed by Twitter
- brewdad 5y ago
  If you are saying that Twitter adjusts the timestamps to the viewer's local time zone, that's not exactly a secret. Or are you accusing Twitter of retroactively changing timestamps to alter the narrative? That would be a bold claim in need of some proof.
  - bouncycastle 5y ago
    They don't, although they can. Say if, the secret service sends them a request in order to protect some higher-up, they would have to comply.
aine 5y ago
> If only there were some kind of decentralized linked list of prohibitively-expensive-to-counterfeit ordered records that he could have leveraged to prove to the world that his twelfth statement preceded hers. Every time I talk with a blockchain enthusiast, they seriously pull similar ideas and every time I tirelessly try to convince them there are better/simplier/more effective/etc. solutions to the same problems they try to apply blockchain. > The Tweets have timestamps. No blockchain required. The best "stop your blockchain bs" answer!

aaronchall 5y ago

This is so obvious to me that I'm having trouble reading their post as anything but tongue-in-cheek. But perhaps they were indeed being sincere? EDIT: On review of their prior posts, it looks like they were.

PragmaticPulp 5y ago
There's a "blockchain solves everything" mentality that's prevalent in certain web3 communities. It's fueled by the fact that there really aren't many, or perhaps any, usable web3 platforms that do anything beyond distributed ledger or NFT type stuff. Obviously nothing in web3 even resembles the scale and speed and ease of use of Twitter. This has left the door wide open for futurists to paint the most idealistic picture possible of what web3 will look like. Blockchain technology is largely irrelevant to the projections (because it's boring). Instead, the projections suggest to solve all of the various social and legal problems in unspecified ways, with "web3" used as the excuse. It goes hand-in-hand with the idea that big corporations are evil and bad for users, but democratizing ownership will change all of that. Nevermind the fact that the big corporations are already publicly traded and you can buy a share of them today if you want, which isn't actually very different than buying governance tokens of a web3 system. The people with the most money and insider connections (to get early coins at a steep discount) are still going to be the ones calling the shots and shaping the systems to derive profits for themselves. There's nothing magical about web3 that stops people with money from buying outsized influence.
- nefitty 5y ago
  In addition, blockchain tech reduces the friction of obscuring money and data flows. This is good for unaccountable power. Government is not perfect, but it at least pretends to be accountable power.
jancsika 5y ago
It's a shitpost-- blockchain wouldn't even have helped him here because he posted number 12 after hers. But now I'm wondering who exactly is upvoting the comment. To be clear-- Bitcoin is an energy-gobbling database sync party trick. We would have been better off wildly exaggerating the potential of sleep sort for the past decade and a half.

spamalot159 5y ago

I believe that the comment you are replying to is sarcastic.

mcv 5y ago
"Believe"? That comment broke my sarcasm detector.

squabble 5y ago

The timestamps can be changed by Twitter

brewdad 5y ago
If you are saying that Twitter adjusts the timestamps to the viewer's local time zone, that's not exactly a secret. Or are you accusing Twitter of retroactively changing timestamps to alter the narrative? That would be a bold claim in need of some proof.
- bouncycastle 5y ago
  They don't, although they can. Say if, the secret service sends them a request in order to protect some higher-up, they would have to comply.

aine 5y ago

> If only there were some kind of decentralized linked list of prohibitively-expensive-to-counterfeit ordered records that he could have leveraged to prove to the world that his twelfth statement preceded hers. Every time I talk with a blockchain enthusiast, they seriously pull similar ideas and every time I tirelessly try to convince them there are better/simplier/more effective/etc. solutions to the same problems they try to apply blockchain. > The Tweets have timestamps. No blockchain required. The best "stop your blockchain bs" answer!