I'm more referring to Mark Zuckerberg's new year post about investing in decentatizlized tech and the power it provides. Will be interesting to see if FB will do an ICO themselves or at least built there own blockchain to address some of the data centralization concerns.
This is worrisome, mainly for one reason. Maybe one of the many ICOs might turn out to derail Facebook's centralised + ads approach. With this Facebook is basically attempting to prevent competition - or am I totally off?
That is incorrect. It just depends on Windows how you call the Win32 API and what parameters you specify. Many options there - in the end it's just an object in the NT kernel space.
What Ethereum for instance did is genius. It distributes storage and compute across the world to those willing to share their resources and you get paid by doing so. It's a way to drive decentralization, because there is an incentive for mining. Is it perfect? Not quite yet for various reasons (performance, privacy), but its an interesting new paradigm.
Its not closed, since the data and code is out for anyone to use typically, you could even fork and create your own. What is different is the incentive to provide storage and compute for others. Over simplified, you lend your storage and compute (that's called mining) and get paid in crypto tokens in return.
Support is horrible, here is my story - not sure how common that problem is. Would be interested if others have the same valdation issue.
I have a case open for multiple weeks to get my address validated. I was able to buy initially, but now it pops up a "quiz" (that's how support calls it), where i have to enter my address and then it says that it's not a valid permanent address. Which is funny because that is the same address the accepted when I signed up and validated my ID. There support literally tells me, "sorry your problem, but you can try the quiz again- and maybe one day it will work". To me thats an unbelievable statement.
I think they have to stop onnoarding customers and solve some of their basic flows first. What if I wanted to sell? It is just not possible within Coinbase.
"Web on desktop"
Reminds me of Win98 and how Microsoft tried to push that back then. It's just a bad security model. Technologies were different, but the security implications that lead to exploits stayed the same.