Re:Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour
by AndrewKemendo on Friday August 11, 2017 @12:10PM
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Pretty much any technology you use now was a solution in need of a problem. PDAs and Touchscreen tablets are the most fitting examples.
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Re:Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour
by mbesto on Friday August 11, 2017 @01:10PM
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Sorry, maybe I didn't get your original point - I thought you were insinuating that ICO was a technology in search a problem and that all super successful (i.e. good) technologies starts this way (which I would disagree).
Re:Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour
by AndrewKemendo on Friday August 11, 2017 @01:28PM
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I thought you were insinuating that ICO was a technology in search a problem and that all super successful technologies starts this way.
Not insinuating, that's my claim - nearly every big technology was too early (eg. a solution looking for a problem - whether in form or scale) before it blew up years or decades later. I don't think that's controversial. It's also true that a lot of trash that never makes it are also solutions in search of problems.
Re:Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour
by mbesto on Friday August 11, 2017 @05:23PM
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I think you're confusing their adoption curve with a problem they solve. For example - PDA's certainly solved a problem (having a mobile/digital calendar), they just didn't solve enough problems when they were introduced.