Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain

Re:Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain by deckard1 on Saturday December 23, 2017 @07:38PM (#15997199)

Cryptokitties is little more than a scam to bring kids into the world of Ethereum speculation. They make part of their money via their marketplace, which of course has zero to do with the blockchain. Most people aren't going to care who "owns" the digital asset, as you can't do much with the asset outside of the software that uses the digital asset. Which is going to be 100% owned by the digital creator. Nintendo isn't going to give up copyright of Pikachu so that some third party can create an app to interact with a blockchain Pikachu. Come on now. The visual and audio representation dictates where centralization will happen.

Not to mention that Cryptokitties is "backdoored" by CEO/CFO/COO functions. Which means the company has full control over the contract, even if the contract itself is "decentralized" (more like externalized, if anything). They can halt trading of the assets any time they desire.

> Everyone also laughed when I in the 90'ies said you would one day be able to score girls from being good at playing computer games.

I have no idea where you're going with this. Are you talking about e-Sports? This is the first I've heard of anyone "scoring girls" with computer games.

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Re:Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain by ThomPete on Saturday December 23, 2017 @07:47PM (#15997238)

You can buy fake physical Pokemon cards that don't change the fact that someone will pay for the original.

You are missing the larger point because you focus on the smaller technical details.

Things don't have to be perfect to be successful.

Again. Either you understand the larger perspective of cryptocurrencies, blockchain and tokens or you don't.

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Re:Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain by jstandard on Sunday December 24, 2017 @11:05AM (#16000029)

I think the larger point being made here is how does blockchain add substantial value for all parties in digital trading cards? What motivates the creator of the cards to do so when they give up so much control?

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Re:Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain by ThomPete on Sunday December 24, 2017 @06:59PM (#16001925)

It creates a secondary market which doesn't need a centralized organization/company to maintain it.

It's like investing in the TCP/IP protocol.

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