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A “hypothetical blockchain” sounds useless if it cannot legally be applied in practice. It’s the sort of draconian policy that HN commenters would abhor if it w
by mattdesl 3y ago
A “hypothetical blockchain” sounds useless if it cannot legally be applied in practice. It’s the sort of draconian policy that HN commenters would abhor if it were anything but blockchain.
To use these networks—and to test & objectively measure them—you need to be able to acquire tokens.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> to test & objectively measure them—you need to be able to acquire tokens There is nothing in this that requires the tokens be distributed to the public, or if they are, that they be sold in exchange for cash and/or traded.
- mattdesl 3y agoA ledger secured by a handful of researchers is not really permissionless or distributed as we have come to understand public blockchains to be.