If you have something genuinely new or curious to say, great. Otherwise please move on.
Additionally, can we secure guarantees that the project owner is safely ejecting the USB drive in question?
Additionally, if we do use this mechanism, I petition to fork the name from CSVCHAIN to SockChain.
Minor nitpick: I believe you wanted to write "vertically scale".
People buying NFTs created by nobodies are simply getting scammed. The physical metaphor here would be like paying a random amateur sports player to sign some equipment.
https://github.com/william-fields/witless/commit/dc4a429b721...
The problems with this 'witless' proposal is that we have no way of auditing the supply, and politicians will betray the trust of the users by debasing it. Also, we have no trust anchor with the 'official witless key', which presumably should be considered compromised in the above commit. It also seems to depend on the file hosting services of a large software company for distribution of its public keys.
The problem with these straw man arguments is they often miss the entire point of the technology, and folks read them and walk away without understand exactly the problems the parodied technology solves.
This does have some humorous points, but generally leaves the reader with a confused and incorrect view of how both the USD and cryptocurrencies work.
You’ve also failed to account for right clickers (so named for the click of a camera shutter, normally triggered by a button to the right of the camera) who can simply take a picture of your object and trade it as they like… This will surely reduce the value of any one of your works to zero!
(In all seriousness, NFT’s gotta be stopped!)
Complete and accurate.
It may or may not surprise you to find out that the U.S. Navy came ->this<- close to trying to standardize all data storage and data interchange on XML, in 2018, so that we could use XSLT and other XML technologies so that they could "Enable maximum use of commercial products built to this standard", "Improve cybersecurity at the data element layer by using the XML Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) protocol", and "Enable compression of data using the XML EXI specification for efficient bandwidth usage over limited satellite communication channels".
That's quite a lag. Peak XML was probably 2000 if I recall correctly. That said, XSLT is pretty cool from a language standpoint. I wouldn't want to program in it all day anymore than I'd want to program all day in Brainfuck, but you have to admire the weirdness of it.
For the most part, when doing a procurement, you'd just check a box that the software supported XML in some form (and many vendors added some stupid XML feature, even if their software didn't have a need for it at all), and it would satisfy that requirement.
Came up with it before NFTs, but it's only more relevant these days.
> Easy, you just need to convert it to USD first.
> Is this for real?
> Sure
> Is this performance art?
> Maybe?
Love it. I think Roy's making a killing off this.
Cash FTW!
Just so you know, I currently have a bit of a backlog of requests to manually process.
This was all very unexpected. I made this recently and then today started getting messages that Matt Levine wrote about something similar in his newsletter today. I tweeted at him and he then tweeted about it to his large following. So here we are on HN!
If you've contacted me, I promise to message you back, but it might take a day or so.
Tell me more....
Longest latency in the game, invest before it’s too late.
- https://github.com/nalinbhardwaj/shiit-coin
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dZpRryIuQ0A photo of a Van Gogh is not a Van Gogh. But JPEG bytes that SHA-256 to 97db5f2753176670ae8b2d8a2aad44d8bb830aee768629488685f4fc1d7a75f1 will also have a copy hash to the same value. The copy is the original, in a way you can't do with a Van Gogh.
NFT fans try to fix this by making something other than the art itself 'non-fungible', but in the real world it's the art itself that is fungible (and where it's not, such as buying a CD, you don't see people freaking out about how valuable their Taylor Swift RED album #22,724,123 is so special and unique).
NFTs are interesting because they support smart contracts, use a cryptocurrency wallet system to manage value and ownership, can be minted in quantities > 1, support unlockable content, etc.
Matt Levine is a great writer. I have little interest in finance but enjoy his newsletter immensely. Highly recommended.
This is the kind of joke for people that think they are clever but don't really understand the situation. Its kind an ignorant position, reminds me of a 'brb downloading RAM' joke. Or sending someone a plastic Bitcoin. or Faxing dollar bills.
Someone made a web site, ok. Guess we don't need fancy Blogging platforms now.
The RAM joke is quite obviously a joke because everyone knows that RAM chips are physical goods that are obviously finite in supply.
Some other differences include append only nature of blockchains. I don't know the ledger has not been modified or reordered or had entries removed. Also if the author doesn't like you, he could ignore your transactions or even drop the entry from the CSV. With say, Ethereum, you would be able to know all these things up front.
trustless, censorship resistant, append only, peer to peer ledgers
The thing is, we saw these jokes about Bitcoin 10+ years ago. Its easy to point fun at things that one doesn't really understand. I imagine lots of people see this joke and go "Ha! See! You dont need a blockchain" while missing the point entirely.