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Re:Easiest Path to Riches on the Web? An Initial Coin Offering by Alex3917 on Monday June 26, 2017 @10:31AM (#14637076)
For the record I have no position on whether or not the current blockchains will be the winners of the space. When I talk about the transformative potential of blockchain I'm talking about the idea of realtime triple-entry combined with authenticated data and smart contracts, not about BTC or ETH or whatever.

Clearly this stuff needs another 5 - 10 years until it's ready for mass adoption, and requires lots of new mathematics and technologies that haven't even been invented yet.

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Re:Easiest Path to Riches on the Web? An Initial Coin Offering by lz400 on Monday June 26, 2017 @08:21PM (#14641571)
Well then you should be as shocked at the transformation of an exciting research field from a technical pursuit to a den of scammers, con artists and desperately ignorant speculators. That's why you see the attitude you see in HN.
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