Ah thanks for the downvote, you're very neutral and would make a great Wikipedia contributor. /s
How are the two sites not remotely in the same market? They are literally knowledge bases. Albeit, Golden is focusing more on structured data similar to Wikidata.org and Everipedia.org is focusing more on blockchain related content first with the backend using smart contracts/token incentivization.
I ran that hackathon. Can confirm it happened in 2015. LA Hacks at UCLA, Evan was the keynote speaker and stayed around to talk to hackers and builders after his speech. Snapchat, as a company, was at its hottest peak in 2015. Very cool event.
Community is always the most important aspect, agreed! Great to hear you guys are watching the crypto prediction markets closely, they are coming up with some novel features. I'm sure they'd all be interested in working with you guys at Facebook too given the users they could get through a partnership. Good luck!
Hi Taylor, this is one of the cooler (probably coolest) consumer products to come out of facebook in a while. I was following it closely since the announcement a few months back.
My question is: I am sure you guys are familiar with crypto-based prediction markets like augur.net and prediqt.everipedia.org that use smart contracts and real money for predictions. Given that facebook is also building Libra and getting into blockchain, do you guys see that down the line Forecast could be something that moves to facebook's blockchain and/or you guys collaborate with crypto-based products like the above mentioned? That would be truly exciting since it would bring pure market dynamics to the predictions. I'm aware of the regulatory hurdles there, but thought I'd ask anyway. Great job! This is so fun to use.
A blockchain-hosted fork of Wikipedia named Everipedia.org has most of these features already built coincidentally. While I prefer Wikipedia over them, I have been noticing myself use other skins/newer look wikis instead of the dated Wiki UI. Although, the load speed of Wikipedia.org is difficult to beat.
I think the real interesting private sector utility will come from implementations of the contact-tracing map instead of just the bluetooth app (which there will likely be "official" ones or ones being worked on directly by Google/Apple themselves).
Do you think that GPS coordinates will be exposable with the API so that there can be public tracing maps online? Obviously a big privacy issue where the actual bluetooth ID and the person's identity have to be fully anonymized but if GPS coordinates of contact points can be exposed publicly, there can be good public tracing maps that can show where contact events are happening and in what numbers so that people can avoid certain areas (and on the other end where other areas are safe where there's no contact). This can publicly also be used to display R0 counts in different zip codes and geographic areas.
How are the two sites not remotely in the same market? They are literally knowledge bases. Albeit, Golden is focusing more on structured data similar to Wikidata.org and Everipedia.org is focusing more on blockchain related content first with the backend using smart contracts/token incentivization.