• 0 Posts
  • 47 Comments
Joined 11 months ago
cake
Cake day: July 31st, 2023

help-circle
rss








  • One of my favorite lines in the game is (paraphrasing):

    The problem with the bugs is that they’re relentless expansionists. We’ve found them on almost every planet in their territory that we’ve colonized.

    It’s also pretty clear that we’ve been farming the bugs for space oil.



  • The only selling point of blockchain is that it’s trustless. This becomes a less-useful property when it comes to things in the real world, as you tend to need to trust at least one party.

    For example, anything they achieved there with blockchain, they could have achieved with a simple government-run web service and a traditional database.


  • That is not a use for blockchain.

    Say I want to say that I created an image. I could post that image’s hash to a block chain, and point to it as something anyone can check.

    But you already have to trust me for that to be valuable. So I can just host that hash in any of a myriad of conventional methods that are simpler, more performant, and less wasteful.