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Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 48 minutes. Dolby Stereo. Related news. Dec 16 The Film Stage. The standard libertarian "freedom from government regulation" is another. It's like they believe that uttering "proof of stake" and similar are like magic spells which automatically dispel any doubt.
Meanwhile they think they are convincing others, but it's mostly for convincing themselves. My friend I mentioned above used the "proof of stake" thing in trying to get me to sign on to code for his project. Say what you want about him, he's like the only person in the world who knows I can code. But then I read the link I posted above, which obliterated any possibility in my mind that proof of stake could fix anything. For some perspective the entire indexed catalog for Napster at it's prime before shutdown was something on the order of 10 TB, and Soulseek at it's peak and prime was something like 15 TB.
It's like the cryptobros heard everyone else ranting at them "Hey, you don't seem to remember the Dutch Tulip craze do you?
We have spent so long comparing NFTs to the Star Registry, to highlight the technical flaws in the very model. We thought that if we just showed the folly in the approach, it could prevent a disaster. But no, this is not a simple vanity purchase of unfulfillable promises.
This is a pyramid scheme backed by some of the most powerful people; and it works because we've been through a pretty shocking shift in how we thought about the value of a lot of information, like music and movies and news. People who felt left behind by the sudden death of newspapers and record shops and bookstores, thrilled and blindsided by the wealth of media we now drown in, feel like there has to be some way to get a step ahead of this for next time.
We saw the same thing in the s: people who'd been through The Great War and The Influenza and Jazz came through with some funny lessons, one of which was "buy war bonds". You could spend money to "invest" in someone's growing business on the stock market, and now that War Is Over we can finally get on the Ploughshares Forever Economy. We all know how that ended: people went into debt, buying stock on margin, and purchasing groups drove up prices in pump-and-dump scams.
The difference is that this time there's no underlying narrative of an actual economy growing food or building appliances or anything. You hear people use the phrase "creating wealth" to describe speculating on the purest forms of abstraction. It feels like hubris to call this Peak Financialisation because I am absolutely certain we'll do it even worse next time. After all, even Ponzi's scheme was nominally about cashing in on arbitrage flaws in the international postal system rather than any actual industry.
So as with Amway or Scientology or any other pyramid structure, we're going to see a lot of debt-driven human suffering come out of this. We mock the crypto bros now, and it does feel satisfying to see a self-important white boy lose his shirt sometimes, but they will find those Greater Fools to buy their pointless "assets" on margin.
What happens when local governments realise that their pension funds were all invested in Magic Beans again? How many OAPs will suddenly find themselves without the P? And mark my words, with the amount of money keeping these eggshells inflated, the billionaires will not settle for any of their kind holding any sort of bag. They will ensure these things get dumped on all of the rest of us before the entire edifice crumbles.
Top marks for style. I'm starting to think the real anti-funge defense of NFTs is how performatively ugly they are. Telling some people something is a scam only encourages them, they think they'll be the scammers and not the rubes.
JHarris : and he of course it's a he I was watching a bunch of Youtube videos about MLMs and the fact that they're full of various flavours of fundamentalist Christian women kept coming up, and it occurred to me that everything to do with the blockchain is kind of the equivalent for atheist men.
Hei Points will soon become the dominant form of currency. Ethereum is going to sidestep the whole "crypto uses too much energy" issue when they transition from proof of work to proof of stake, hopefully next year Oh, please. You know what else is hard work?
Saving the fucking environment. I'm just glad we haven't had to hear the pitch for astral candela-steradians yet again. A bunch of cryptos ARE proof of stake, right now, today.
This thread is hard to read because there is a lot of disinformation and misunderstanding. I don't own any NFTs or plan on doing so, but the practical applications are obvious: car titles, house titles, ABC licenses, pilot's licenses, all sorts of manner of one-of-a-kind documents could be put on a blockchain and made available to anyone to check and authenticate instantly.
A lot of you also don't seem to know that some of your financial transactions are almost surely ALREADY on a blockchain, whether you own any crypto or not; major credit cards are involved in blockchain technology. As regards the use of energy, this is a legitimate problem, but one that incentivizes solutions for the increase of production of green energy.
In the meantime, we all can question our consumption of electricity and material goods. In the meantime, we all can question our consumption of electricity and material goods I will not ignore an entire industry burning the earth to the ground for some temporary cash.
You are asking me to start feeling bad about heating my own home and buying a new computer every 5 years? That's a no from me. If you want to make it fancier, I guess the database entry could include a copy of the deed signed by a city certificate.
What would a blockchain add to that? Happy to learn of any examples. You can verify ownership of my house online right now by looking it up in my city's property tax database. I don't think this is the same thing.
I haven't really verified your ownership till I go to town hall. Like, if you want to take out a loan on equity on your home, the bank isn't going to go to your town's plotviewer and trusting it during underwriting. The blockchain is instantly verifiable anywhere though, meaning that everything becomes truly digital. Sure, straight from the horse's mouth. That is what millions of people are doing everyday when they send remittances homes to their relatives in Central America and other parts of the third world, without going through Western Union or the traditional banking structure and paying their pound of flesh and this can be done via proof of stake today.
I don't know enough about VISA to know if your individual card swipes ever get on a blockchain, but I suspect it is a matter of time. Crypto and blockchain technology are being massively adopted in the way the internet was in the mid 90s. There is a conversation to be had regarding crypto, its impacts on our society and environment, and what kind of smart solutions are practicable, but it doesn't seem to be happening here, which is too bad, because this is usually such a great space.
Are you saying that using more energy incentivises the use of green energy? Or are you talking about using blockchain for potential trading, which I know a lot of people are talking about and experimenting with but I don't think anyone has started doing in anger as yet.
I really don't want to become the ambassador of crypto on Metafilter or in this thread because I don't feel that attached to it, just to be clear. But as I see it, as energy consumption on the planet increases as an inevitable result of growth in all domains, we are going to be forced by hook or by crook to find ways to increase our use of renewable energy sources. Since, from where I am standing, massive adoption of blockchain and crypto technology is an ongoing process and has been for the last five years , the production of renewable energy will become more and more profitable for those who produce that energy.
I really wonder how much blockchain enthusiasm is due to people not realizing what you can already do with public key cryptography. All of those things are issued by a central authority and only have meaning because they're guaranteed and enforced by that same central authority. So the arguments for putting them into a distributed-authority database are what again? You'll still need a central real-world authority to verify the stuff getting put onto the blockchain and to compare against what's coming out of the blockchain, lest Crazy Bob's Quitclaim Service starts randomly issuing duplicate and conflicting titles for property.
So at that point, the whole blockchain-as-public-ledger becomes kind of redundant and pointless, so why bother duplicating the effort of having that central authority maintain their own database? I'm pretty sure metafilter doesn't need an ambassador of crypto. Really, read that page carefully, look at that list of "crypto solutions and capabilities".
It's all about selling blockchain-related services to people that want to use them. None of it is about processing day-to-day credit card transactions. You'll still need a central real-world authority to verify the stuff getting put onto the blockchain and to compare against what's coming out of the blockchain, lest Crazy Bob's Quitclaim Service starts randomly issuing duplicate and conflicting titles for property This is what I mean by not understanding, this can't happen on a blockchain unless everyone agrees Crazy Bob's issuance is legitimate.
All of the documents in question would still be issued by and subject to the same regulatory authorities, but instead of carrying around a piece of potentially forgeable plastic or paper to demonstrate my legal right to whatever boat I claim to own or car I claim to be able to drive, anyone anywhere can instantly check to see if that document is legitimate if it is on a blockchain.
Floppy, this is on that page and I think it is about processing day-to-day card transactions. The principal point I want to make is that is is happening whether we like it or not, and calling it a ponzi or comparing it to Tulip mania seems disingenuous or indicative of a misunderstanding. I wouldn't object to learn that I don't understand all this quite right, but I am fairly sure that this technology is being massively adopted and isn't going away.
It seems strange to dismiss it outright. This is what I mean by not understanding, this can't happen on a blockchain unless everyone agrees Crazy Bob's issuance is legitimate. And how are you going to do that? I'm not talking about the blockchain recognizing the legitimacy of a particular transaction, I'm talking about an two separately minted NFTs representing two different titles purporting to be attached to the same property: the "real" one, and a duplicate.
Who regulates the issuance of new NFTs representing property? If only new NFTs can be created by a central authority, why do we need the blockchain to begin with? If anyone can issue an NFT which purports to be attached to any real-world piece of property, how do you pick the "real" one on the blockchain without consulting a central authority? If you have to cross reference an NFT against a central authority's database to determine if it's the "true" NFT for a piece of property, why bother having a redundant ledger in the blockchain, since both the database of the central authority and the blockchain will have to be updated whenever something is transacted.
Hey, I don't get it either. Maybe there's something to all this that I just haven't understood yet. But it's just not clear to me what fundamentally it can do that existing technology can't. And people have been making claims about killer applications for blockchains for years now. And from what I've seen the only with any modest success so far are basically selling to people who want to use the technology for its own sake. Land recording systems are some of the oldest centralized data systems we have.
In many localities, they are entirely consultable digitally. There's no need to layer in blockchain technology, because the entire usefulness is the single entity agreeing to recognize and enforce ownership.
And if one designed a system where this was the case, why do I want RandomBigEvilMegaCorp having an independent and unconstrained vote on whether I own my house or my car? I am fairly sure that this technology is being massively adopted You're It's being used with enthusiasm for speculation. Adoption for practical purposes remains relatively thin on the ground. Since when does everyone on a blockchain have to agree to authenticate a transaction?
You should just look up a five minute primer on blockchains, it would serve you better than I can. Blockchains are decentralzied and no one owns them.
I'll just address the very last comment about massive adoption: I've already mentioned a practical application of cryptocurrency in this thread; I appreciate the comment about property deeds. I don't know enough about blockchain or cryptocurrency to contribute anything more than what I have already said, but I want to reiterate my original point about the quality of the discussion in this thread. Since my original post, several contentless posts have been made that literally contribute more to global warming than my own involvement with NFTs.
Many people like myself come here for informed discussion on topics that are relevant to our lives, we hope and expect to learn more. The whole cryptoindustry has a market cap equivalent to that of silver, and is rapidly changing entire economies and the global financial system.
To come here and see it dismissed as a ponzi scheme is disappointing. This is an incredibly common response in these discussions -- basically the first step in a sort of script that this poster also seems to be following; I see it all the time on twitter for anyone who is foolish enough to make a skeptical post about crypto without limiting replies. But also is something that remains completely unmaterialized, everyone is always promising concrete applications and they never show.
One next step after this is pointed out is to start talking about "web3", although there's some branching in the script here. I wonder where this script comes from?
Visa is involved in crypto, but from any concrete information I can find including what was linked from visa in this thread if you read it with clear eyes it's one-way transactions out of crypto, and the scale is miniscule compared to real money. Yeah, I've got no idea how title companies actually work.
Would it really be worth it to send someone in person to inspect a paper record just to reduce the small chance that someone's hacked the city web server or corrupted their database somehow? They're probably better off factoring that chance into the price they charge for their insurance. Though I doubt it'd be a significant factor. That belief is no doubt based on claims you've read somewhere. I'm not seeing evidence in this thread that you've been examining such claims carefully.
I would recommend doing so. Ethereum mines have little motivation to go to proof of stake, and stake systems have problems themselves.
NFTs are pointers to something else and nothing more. If you've been on the net long enough and bookmarked things you like, you know how often things on the net just disappear.
NFT is just a way to put a friendly easy to understandable face on technology that you wouldn't normally understand. So, it brings in more people. Flavored vaping. I think it was extremely irresponsible for auction houses to participate in NFTs when they had to know exactly what they were and were not.
But, I was flipping around and landed on CNBC and they were discussing this quarters growth being largely in auction houses. They then joked with each other about what each had bought at auction--nothing.
Blockchains are useful and will be applied in useful places. That doesn't mean those applications have to have anything to do with cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrencies are indeed useful, and a quickly evolving technology.
But, innovation is not in bitcoin or ethereum though of course things are built on top of it that are interesting. They're too popular to innovate because change annoys people.
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