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Did you mean that I can or can't disagree that blockchains are older than Bitcoin? Would you agree that various things that use cryptography or merkle trees in

by Canada 4y ago

Did you mean that I can or can't disagree that blockchains are older than Bitcoin? Would you agree that various things that use cryptography or merkle trees including git, certificate transparency, including hashes in logs to prevent tampering, or someone posting a hash in the New York Times a long time ago, are NOT "blockchain" in the sense that Satoshi used it in his whitepaper? Am I mistaken in my belief that the first time the word "blockchain" was used was in the Bitcoin whitepaper itself? As you did, I saw Bitcoin very early, and wrote it off because I didn't think it would go anywhere. I was wrong. The fact that it's still here more than 10 years later and it's worth so much is proof enough that Bitcoin and/or subsequent systems that are blockchains as Satoshi defined them actually do "matter" and that I was wrong to think it didn't back then.

orwin 4y ago
if you believe that the world will become more and more digitalized (AR and VR, stuff like the metaverse), bitcoin-like blockchains absolutely matters. If you believe Saudi arabia is lying for decades about its oil stock and the EROI of gas and oil will continue to climb as fast in the next decade, stiffling production, bitcoin doesn't matter. The thing is, in the first case, i'll be employable at amazing rates, so cryptocoins as a monetary value, i don't really care. I like the idea of rock climbing and sailing with AR tools, but let's be honest, my pastimes do not involve digital assets (i do play some 4x games, but rarely more than two hours a week), only my work does, and i thus will only care for bitcoins if my work demands it. If you play games like MTG and other TCGs, maybe this can be of interest? In the second case, it really doesn't matter in the end, but i feel like being able to write C for a microcontroller will be more usefull than being able to write Solidity code. And tbh, i wrote a smart contract, it's just not that interesting. My dad's chicken coop door automation however, was usefull and interesting.

by Canada 4y ago

orwin 4y ago

if you believe that the world will become more and more digitalized (AR and VR, stuff like the metaverse), bitcoin-like blockchains absolutely matters. If you believe Saudi arabia is lying for decades about its oil stock and the EROI of gas and oil will continue to climb as fast in the next decade, stiffling production, bitcoin doesn't matter. The thing is, in the first case, i'll be employable at amazing rates, so cryptocoins as a monetary value, i don't really care. I like the idea of rock climbing and sailing with AR tools, but let's be honest, my pastimes do not involve digital assets (i do play some 4x games, but rarely more than two hours a week), only my work does, and i thus will only care for bitcoins if my work demands it. If you play games like MTG and other TCGs, maybe this can be of interest? In the second case, it really doesn't matter in the end, but i feel like being able to write C for a microcontroller will be more usefull than being able to write Solidity code. And tbh, i wrote a smart contract, it's just not that interesting. My dad's chicken coop door automation however, was usefull and interesting.