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I think HN will be the last place to embrace this news. I look forward to reading all the comments about how blockchain is just a bunch of scams that solves not

by EGreg 3y ago

I think HN will be the last place to embrace this news. I look forward to reading all the comments about how blockchain is just a bunch of scams that solves nothing. But for those who have an open mind, here is a list of some useful applications: https://intercoin.org/applications https://intercoin.org/applications

gosub100 3y ago
"an open mind" to getting rug-pulled?
- EGreg 3y ago
  How, pray tell, are you getting rugpulled with say Intercoin’s blockchain applications?
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alphabettsy 3y ago
I don’t recall people saying Blockchain is useless. I do recall people having that sentiment about cryptocurrency, especially as it exists now, which is not precisely the same thing. And for a technology that’s been around so long it’s taking an awful long time to start solving problems at any noteable scale.
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- ur-whale 3y ago
  > I don’t recall people saying Blockchain is useless. About half of the natives here have a hard time telling the difference between Crypto, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Web3 and NFTs The moment any of theses words are uttered here, instant skin rash. At this point in time, it's so predictable it's actually quite enjoyable.
m3kw9 3y ago
These were known applications 5 years back. How are they now?
- EGreg 3y ago
  Well, we have some large paying clients and about a million community leaders that we plan to reach out to, once we launch the Software as a Service. We use the Factory pattern so you just fill in a form, press a button to launch the smart contracts, then grab a widget and put it on your site. Then invite everyone. We have been spending a long time and $ on third party security audits etc.
  - m3kw9 3y ago
    So I need to buy and use token and set up a wallet, isn’t that a lot of friction?
    - EGreg 3y ago
      Pulling out your credit card and entering numbers is also a lot of friction. Especially if you are not in a Western country
      - m3kw9 3y ago
        Setting up crypto wallet vs the already familiar credit card seem like a step up in friction. It’s extremely unfamiliar to most people I’ve found.
        EGreg 3y ago
        What’s the most difficult thing about setting up a crypto wallet?
        m3kw9 3y ago
        Just ask someone who doesn’t know crypto to set one up and see the at they look at you
danrl 3y ago
I really tried to be open minded and clicked your link. You lost me at: > By combining Web2 (community interfaces) and Web3 (smart economies), we can launch the next generation of applications — which we refer to as Web5. This is not how versioning works. It looks more like marketing coming up with the highest number possible without a meaningful increase in value delivered. (Remember the old PC magazines with 999+ games on a CD Rom?)
- EGreg 3y ago
  We used to call it Web4 but then Jack Dorsey changed the branding
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leptons 3y ago
"Web3" is going great! https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com
- EGreg 3y ago
  When it was posted on HN, it’s very telling that the MAJORITY of TOPLEVEL comments were all downvoted into oblivion … any response other than “yeap, web3 sucks” is unacceptable on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36128484 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36128484

by EGreg 3y ago

gosub100 3y ago

"an open mind" to getting rug-pulled?

EGreg 3y ago
How, pray tell, are you getting rugpulled with say Intercoin’s blockchain applications?
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alphabettsy 3y ago

I don’t recall people saying Blockchain is useless. I do recall people having that sentiment about cryptocurrency, especially as it exists now, which is not precisely the same thing. And for a technology that’s been around so long it’s taking an awful long time to start solving problems at any noteable scale.

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ur-whale 3y ago
> I don’t recall people saying Blockchain is useless. About half of the natives here have a hard time telling the difference between Crypto, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Web3 and NFTs The moment any of theses words are uttered here, instant skin rash. At this point in time, it's so predictable it's actually quite enjoyable.

m3kw9 3y ago

These were known applications 5 years back. How are they now?

EGreg 3y ago
Well, we have some large paying clients and about a million community leaders that we plan to reach out to, once we launch the Software as a Service. We use the Factory pattern so you just fill in a form, press a button to launch the smart contracts, then grab a widget and put it on your site. Then invite everyone. We have been spending a long time and $ on third party security audits etc.
- m3kw9 3y ago
  So I need to buy and use token and set up a wallet, isn’t that a lot of friction?
  - EGreg 3y ago
    Pulling out your credit card and entering numbers is also a lot of friction. Especially if you are not in a Western country
    - m3kw9 3y ago
      Setting up crypto wallet vs the already familiar credit card seem like a step up in friction. It’s extremely unfamiliar to most people I’ve found.
      - EGreg 3y ago
        What’s the most difficult thing about setting up a crypto wallet?
        m3kw9 3y ago
        Just ask someone who doesn’t know crypto to set one up and see the at they look at you

danrl 3y ago

I really tried to be open minded and clicked your link. You lost me at: > By combining Web2 (community interfaces) and Web3 (smart economies), we can launch the next generation of applications — which we refer to as Web5. This is not how versioning works. It looks more like marketing coming up with the highest number possible without a meaningful increase in value delivered. (Remember the old PC magazines with 999+ games on a CD Rom?)

EGreg 3y ago
We used to call it Web4 but then Jack Dorsey changed the branding
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leptons 3y ago

"Web3" is going great! https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com

EGreg 3y ago
When it was posted on HN, it’s very telling that the MAJORITY of TOPLEVEL comments were all downvoted into oblivion … any response other than “yeap, web3 sucks” is unacceptable on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36128484 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36128484