Ethereum price goes up nearly 50 percent in under a week

Re:Ethereum price goes up nearly 50 percent in under a week by OJFord on Monday March 13, 2017 @08:08PM (#13863779)

Are you kidding? Who doesn't want an Uber for the Blockchain, where they can enter into a smart contract with their driver before getting into the vehicle?!

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Re:Ethereum price goes up nearly 50 percent in under a week by flippyhead on Monday March 13, 2017 @08:52PM (#13864023)

I don't specifically want that. I don't not want it either.

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Re:Ethereum price goes up nearly 50 percent in under a week by yazaddaruvala on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:28PM (#13864737)

I've wanted that. Barring privacy, safety and quality concerns.

If it is possible in ETH to build smart financial contracts but also encode state into the "wallet", such that reputation was earned or lost, then they really might have a winning strategy.

There is no real reason why distributed Uber/Lyft shouldn't exist.

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Re:Ethereum price goes up nearly 50 percent in under a week by OJFord on Monday March 13, 2017 @10:13PM (#13864406)

Perhaps it wasn't clear, bit I was kidding :)

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Re:Ethereum price goes up nearly 50 percent in under a week by warkdarrior on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @12:26AM (#13864986)

Son, on the Internet you need to close your <sarcasm> tag.

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Re:Ethereum price goes up nearly 50 percent in under a week by Jabanga on Monday March 13, 2017 @10:38PM (#13864519)

I want that. Then it would be truly peer-to-peer. Where intermediaries are needed, the services the intermediaries offer can be debundled so that there's competition for the various services, driving fees down and quality up.

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