Re:Is Blockchain Technology Going to Disrupt Our Political S...
by heliumcraft on Monday November 21, 2016 @12:08PM
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IMO It's premature to look for successes at this stage (try 5 years from now), there is a lot that needs to be done in the space (namely in terms of scalability) before it can be ready for general use. Only recently the decentralized storage projects are coming into some sort of Beta (Ethereum's Swarm, Storj, Maidsafe, IPFS, etc..), distributed computing projects such as golem are just getting started, and more work is still in progress to make blockchains more practical, sharding, speed, etc..
Re:Is Blockchain Technology Going to Disrupt Our Political S...
by erikpukinskis on Monday November 21, 2016 @12:06PM
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How do you measure impact on society?
Re:Is Blockchain Technology Going to Disrupt Our Political S...
by maxerickson on Monday November 21, 2016 @12:15PM
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If you are just holding up a small claim of success to make your grand claim seem less silly the specifics of it don't matter a lot.
Re:Is Blockchain Technology Going to Disrupt Our Political S...
by erikpukinskis on Monday November 21, 2016 @12:44PM
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Ok! I thought you wanted to talk about it.
Re:Is Blockchain Technology Going to Disrupt Our Political S...
by maxerickson on Monday November 21, 2016 @01:02PM
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I do, but I'm interested in hearing about anything anybody thinks made an impact, not in arguing about what the rules are for making impact.
Re:Is Blockchain Technology Going to Disrupt Our Political S...
by erikpukinskis on Monday November 21, 2016 @02:52PM
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I think if one person was able to send money to another country without paying much of a fee, then it had an impact.
(which I would call a qualified success, I think it is handy for a small group of people more than it is really having any impact on society)