Read all about it at the above link. There’s way too much to process here. This is going to be wild.

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    1 year ago

    Don’t knock the tech just because it’s currently being used like stocks and currencies. Fundamentally the blockchain solves the problem of making a distributed database secure and modifiable when in the presence of untrustworthy nodes – no easy task. Simple dbs are not up to this task

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      1 year ago

      Fundamentally there’s absolutely no need to use this to keep track of Internet points on a social media site. It’s bullshit, buzzword bingo.

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      that’s why I generally, just like keeping my blockchain news with EIPs/ERCs rather from anything/anyone else or at least merit based.