Sounds like great idea, but can’t seem to find some key info: which “public ledger” is used here? A blockchain? If so, there would need to be a massive fee overhead. If not, then how are we not relying on trust?
Also, is there some kind of ownership structure based on investment?
It’s been years since I’ve read Industrial Society and its Future, but I remember it felt like the author was rationalizing his own emotional state into a philosophy supposedly explaining society. It contained many subjective ideas presented as hard fact, as well as some naive romanticization of pre-industrial societies.
He was right about one thing, though. No one would give his writings a second look if he wasn’t a terrorist. Even if the many copycat manifestos would be much worse.
All these attempts at banning and censorship tend to focus on the wrong things.
We should all put as much pressure as possible on elected leaders to ban references to 1984 on the Internet every time there’s government overreach or censorship. It’s a great book and the references are often apt, but they’re incredibly overused and cliché.
Such a law would do a great deal to force people to read or talk about other pertinent books. Call it The BRADBURY Act (Bringing a Reasonable Amount of Different Books… um… Under Review… uh… every Year).
I’ve read several technical, non-fluff books on the topic, and I’ve developed smart contracts on Ethereum for decent hourly wage (paid out in fiat).
And I’ve still come to roughly the same conclusion as you. Either my reading comprehension is poor, or there is little actual value in the vast majority of blockchain applications. Digital cash, as defined in the Bitcoin whitepaper, still seems like the only real use case.
Other uses are fun for a developer to read and learn about, but that’s just about the only real value you can extract from them.
Well, and making quick developer buck, which is the equivalent of selling shovels to prospectors in a gold rush. The main difference being that it’s merely a jpeg of a shovel.
The biggest problem is that they waste your time even when the content is ostensibly helpful, since the search result is usually listed after the Stack Overflow page it crawled from anyway. Each click steals a few seconds of developers’ time, which adds up, given how frequently these types of results pop up on Google search lately. That makes them worse than useless, they actively subtract value.
Also, is there some kind of ownership structure based on investment?