True, yet there are some people in that scene who see that commercialization as the very thing they’re fighting
Yes, that’s very true. I would personally never voluntarily chose to be part of that community for this reason.
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Admittedly, it’s much easier to just call everyone an idiot or a scammer, and it’s sure going to get you more applause. With some superficial knowledge of how stuff works, you get bonus points for being a socially responsible, critical tech guru, so if that’s your thing …
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Even the much derided PoW chains have one thing in their favor: They actually work in terms of meeting requirements in terms of not having to trust any single entity, although I’m happy to admit it’s highly questionable whether they do so at a justifiable cost. But they work.
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Blockchains and smart contracts are technologies with very limited applicability right now. There are good and bad implementations of both platforms and applications. People trying to improve that might succeed, or they might not. (FTR, I’m not one of them.) Time will tell.
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Many of those orgs are in the same league as your typical ML startup. They may fail, but they’re not all “evil”, and they’re not all stupid. Dismissing everything and everyone uniformly seems just wrong to me.
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Sure, there are few use cases, there are many scams, and of course there’s the very questionable energy consumption of the PoW chains. But there are lots of smart folks trying to build legit use cases, using something else than PoW, trying to honestly innovate.
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I understand the justified criticism of the many dishonest and politically questionable things associated with cryptocurrencies and NFTs. But I don’t remember seeing such a complete dismissal of any tech in this industry before, and I can’t help but feel that’s unjustified
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You can believe that “It’s become a fad to own an NFT and there’s a bro culture around it” but still think “that NFT is a useful and fundamental technology for certifying the authenticity of limited-edition goods”. Really good interview.
W00t! My interview with Mixmag is up online and will be in the next print edition mixmag.net/feature/rcrdshp-d…
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True for security-related issues in general. Simpler and more convenient solutions always win, as long as they’re good enough from a typical user’s perspective
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@wordfeud I am frustrated that I can’t play three separate, definitely valid words, each of them connected to an existing tile. This should work, right?