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Re:Bitcoin Whipsaws Investors as Bubble Shows Signs of Bursting by hyprCoin on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:08PM (#16293805)
What's to say they aren't? If you are trying to accumulate, would you bump up the price publicly and buy privately or suppress the price publicly and buy privately? I know what I'd do, especially if there were no laws around any of it.

Personally I trust the future of finance, governance, security representation, IOT, fog computing and other yet to be developed applictations to software engineers rather than wall street and lawyers.

Re:Bitcoin Whipsaws Investors as Bubble Shows Signs of Bursting by lern_too_spel on Friday February 02, 2018 @04:47PM (#16294465)
Don't lump me in with the cryptocurrency maniacs. Most software engineers also see blockchain as useless when applied to the domains you listed.
Re:Bitcoin Whipsaws Investors as Bubble Shows Signs of Bursting by hyprCoin on Friday February 02, 2018 @05:15PM (#16294629)
I'm saying that all crypto teams contain software engineers, not that all software engineers are cryptocurrency maniacs.

You also may want to reevaluate your initial thoughts on what representations of value can do for each of these use cases.

A quick example: A secure means of sharing information and value across devices is a building block for the internet of things. How would such a standard exist and how would the value distribution become agreed upon?

There are many crypto currencies in the space

edit: removed coin reference, really not trying to convince anyone to buy anything, just re-evaluate prejudices

Re:Bitcoin Whipsaws Investors as Bubble Shows Signs of Bursting by lern_too_spel on Saturday February 03, 2018 @12:25AM (#16296332)
> A secure means of sharing information and value across devices is a building block for the internet of things. How would such a standard exist and how would the value distribution become agreed upon?

Using centralized systems. Why would a more expensive distributed not-quite-trustless system be better than a far simpler and cheaper system built on centralized trusted authorities?