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> yet to find an application beyond gambling and scamming. Besides the only immutable planet-scale consensus of history, of course. Good grief.
by DANmode 3y ago
> yet to find an application beyond gambling and scamming.
Besides the only immutable planet-scale consensus of history, of course.
Good grief.
- rcxdude 3y agoThat's not an application. It's a technological result. It may or may not be applied for productive work (I'd say on the whole the negative results have outweighed the positive so far, especially looking at the ecosystem as a whole)
- DANmode 3y agoWere you also a critic of the first computing devices themselves, by chance?
- rcxdude 3y agothey also weren't applications, if that's what you're implying. But they quickly found quite a lot of highly valuable ones.
- DANmode 3y agoLet's save each other some time: What's more likely? You convince the Internet connected world not to adopt a proof of consensus mechanism via HN comment and related butterfly effects, or something just like the posted app/service not only exists but thrives in under 5 years?
- jurynulifcation 3y agoWhat good does immutability truly do you? What are the pros and cons? It is not obvious to me the pros outweigh the cons.
- DANmode 3y agoNext decade's winners can't change the way history was recorded.
- jurynulifcation 3y agoThat's a pro. Very good! Now how about you exercise some intellectual honesty and provide some cons as well?
- DANmode 3y agoYou're doing an excellent job on your own, cupcake. "Very good", take off.
- jurynulifcation 3y agosomebody's grump they couldn't con another sucker into the grift industry :'(
- DANmode 3y agoI'll only engage with the parts of your comments that are in good faith, few as they may be. If you know of any alternative proposals for creating an incentive structure to store an unadulterated log of...whatever it may be that random humans may want to share with future humans, please share. It seems like a valuable goal.