Glad to see a no-strings attached gift. Being Microsoft, though, I would not mind seeing a higher number.

It's almost insulting when they owe $billions in taxes.

What an asinine thing to say and it exhibits your lack of willingness or ability or willingness to understand both AI and cryptocurrency.

Care to back up that claim?

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its the paid version of the open source hackmd right? the self hosted one has no book mode afak

I’m curious - what makes you believe it is all a scam?

For a start, the entire series of responses in this article is nonsense, beginning with the very first claim about "Web 3" somehow being a response to twitter changing their API. There's nothing about blockchains that stop companies from changing or shutting down an API. Chris even appears to agree with this in a later response!

Up to now everything about "crypto" has just been a vehicle for speculation and get rich quick. There is no real world problem being solved. I have seen many possible uses proposed but none actually enacted and every case were blockchain may be used, something far more practical is already in place solving that problem and doing so without the impact to the environment or the electronics market.

solidity

Turns out cryptocurrency and blockchain tech is a big deal and can really pave the way for open source creation. Who knew?

Jesus - just get over it already.

The intrinsic financial nature of blockchain tech seems to attract the most unhinged popular opinions.

The intrinsically "solution looking for a problem" nature of blockchain invites increasingly nonsensical grifts. The criticism is warranted.

Unhinged how?

"NFTs" will be utilized as:

legal paperwork/receipts,

garage access tokens,

home access tokens,

school library reserved room token,

improved certificates of authenticity for collectibles,

augmented reality trading card games,

had to start thinking, so I'll stop there.

Have you deeply considered any of these (the technology part of the technology),

or just today's grifters?

Don't be the one to get everyone to throw away email because of fake princes scamming people through it.

But do NFTs actually have properties that solve any of these alleged problems?

> school library reserved room token

Like, reserving a room at a library... is this really a problem for which the best solution is writing immutable code to a blockchain and exchanging tokens on a centralized platform that incurs tons of money in gas fees? Is that truly better than... a volunteer employee at the front desk trading you a conference room key for your driver's license? I feel like if this is the end all be all example of the power of NFTs, it's a clear admission that the tech is kinda worthless?

What am I missing?

You're missing that the chain is already essentially ubiquitous for those that this is an important topic to,

to the point where large institutions are betting millions and billions on being a layer-2 player on it.

& if Ethereum isn't the "winner" at the "end", it'll be an Ethereum Virtual Machine compatible implementation.

So your point isn't that it's a good solution to any problem, but that it's ubiquitous. Unfortunately, I think you're right. Hopefully we solve that library-conference-room problem soon!

My point is that,

like the "networking system that interoperates between all devices in the world", Ethereum is the next "agreed upon" frontier that can enable all of these things,

already is,

and that you may be lacking imagination as to what it could offer us to have that consensus.

A global, public, decentralized enough (not controlled by one nation-state or group, for better or for worse) settlement layer.

Why are MasterCard and Visa looking to settle on it if it's just me looking to solve the library room thing, like an egg looking for its chicken?

Ubiquitous to people who want to force people into getting grifted.

How much does swiping your MasterCard or Visa add to the cost of your daily purchases, on average, would you guess without looking it up?

Somewhere between 0 and 3%, but that doesn't account for the added value of my life savings not being wiped away if I accidentally misplace my credit card or it gets cloned.

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