Kodak’s Dubious Blockchain Gamble

Re:Kodak’s Dubious Blockchain Gamble by CydeWeys on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @06:44PM (#16270168)

Yeah, but that has nothing to do with the service they're offering. It's a service with random blockchain stuff grafted on.

If you want to use tokens as store of value or medium of exchange, go use something like Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.

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Re:Kodak’s Dubious Blockchain Gamble by k__ on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @06:50PM (#16270195)

Seems to me like some people can't understand the difference between tokens and blockchains.

But maybe they do and thought "Well, a blockchain is a good idea to track photo ownership AND people make mad bucks with crypto currencies at the moment, we can offer a something that has to do with photos and make big money on the side"

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Re:Kodak’s Dubious Blockchain Gamble by CydeWeys on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @12:15PM (#16275447)

Is there truly a meaningful difference between tokens and blockchains though? Sure, the token is running one level up in the architecture hierarchy, using a blockchain or maybe even another token as its settlement layer, but from a user's perspective it doesn't act any differently. It's kind of like how, as a user, I don't know or care whether the HN webserver my browser is talking to right now is running in a VM or on bare metal.

The actual use properties of tokens/coins/blockchains aren't any different.

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