Note: I'll refer to DTL as blockchain for ease of understanding
Also note: I don't think all of these ledgers need to be validated distributedly in order to have the same kind of value
A lot of blockchain enthusiasts say the same thing about companies adopting the blockchain in an 'unched' way.
I'd say blockchains are more akin to AR/VR or AI in that they absolutely are valuable and they undoubtedly are the future, but the technology isn't there.
The difference with blockchains is that, rather than the technology not being there, it's simply the innovation that isn't.
There is clearly a market ready and willing for adoption, and there always will be. That's just the power of 'cryptoeconomic incentive'.
There's no way to control price to USD, but you can control tokens to metrics. To use bitcoin as an example, say I'm holding 1 bitcoin and the metrics go up n. That coin pops out x satoshi. Metrics go down n and I lose x satoshi.
Anyway, I clearly have no idea how it would work. But it clearly can work; people are willing to find these tokens valuable.
Something I think is true that most people disagree with is that the importance of distributed-ledger technology is simply how it utilizes ledgers to create these tokens as an alternative to currency.
Stock prices are affected by metrics but the goal is to always monetize these metrics. Attributing a token to them turns them into an ends to monetization rather than just a means.
There's problems to solve going from there, but yeah I think going from unlockng value from users to unlocking value directly from use is a revolutionary shift.
I've got no real input other than it would be awesome to get Larry Page. I'm likely in the 1% of the 1% in terms of how many founder stories I've listened to or watched, and I'm not tired of it yet. A good story can come from the most random places. Though I appreciate good intro music so there's a suggestion.
I had the chance to buy one yesterday morning and I didn't take it up. That was my first hearing about it and I gotta say, beyond resell value I don't see the appeal of this thing.
You can make a smaller NES with a Pi Zero and rented time on a 3D printer. I don't think people would have a problem trading use of cartridges for a much larger, cross platform selection.
Basically, start a blog and talk about what you know. Give free advice. Provide a platform that people can refer others to. Use this to market yourself and eventually it'll become its own lead generator.
I don't know much else but among the things I've heard here and there, contact people to do free or low paid work to start. If you do good work you'll find these to be refferals down the line. Provide case studies on your blog - use it as a portfolio.
Smart people should never have to feel ashamed for what they know. The other day I - as an underemployed 24 year old teaching myself software development - was at the cafe of a software company. Some guy was telling his coworker that in the near future we may have patches that read our temperature and heartrate throughout the day (I'm thinking contact lenses). He's coworker answered with a sarcastic "Okay..?" and pretty much had nothing to say on the subject. I've been that guy. People are intimidated by things they don't know the same way a baby is intimidated by the cup without a sippy lid. You have to train them to let them know they're able to use the cup and sadly society at large hasn't trained themselves to accept new information.
Cold world but I'm sure there's a way to go about it that inspires more awe than resent.
Please tell me how non-white Americans will suffer from the policies of Trump. I'd think, what with 65k Syrian refugees flooding in and flocking to places like California (where I live) and backed up by policies in to land them unskilled jobs, the minority demo would suffer much more than, for instance, some Americans having their illegal relatives deported for example.
Hillary has been recorded to be racist herself. She also went from being pro civil union, no pro gay marriage to pro gay marriage - after the fact. Beyond that seems very weird. The lying about 'landing under sniper fire', her weird convulsion-like episodes and the fact that people are repeatedly fired from their jobs for talking about it.
Political donations are not supposed to be tax deductible and yet the Clinton Foundation carries on existence as a 501c3; double dipping so that a majority of her income as one of the most wealthy politicians comes in tax deductible while she pays not taxes on it.
In light of the blatant collusion and conflicts of interest released in her emails she should've been barred from running in the first place.
Do you just want me to repeat myself? He's defeatist, typing almost incoherently and he's clearly already abandoned this thread. The reasons why he doesn't deserve help are self evident.
>I thought I would want to become a Web developer because I saw it as a way out of poverty for me and my family but I find it hard and give up at times because everything is so overwhelming and I don't have anyone to ask questions to because I have so many questions plus I can't afford bootcamps.
Wow. Get ahold of yourself.
You're almost incoherent and begging for advice yet you were unwilling to give a serious answer to CyberFonic's post. You don't seem like a person that deserves helping.