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Re:Coinbase Ventures by ghthor on Friday April 06, 2018 @12:55AM (#16770976)
The blockchain is the least interesting aspect of what makes up the public cyptocurrency networks. They are a nice combination of distributed consensus + PK signed transactions that produces a very good UX.
Re:Coinbase Ventures by chas on Friday April 06, 2018 @01:22AM (#16771072)
“Very good UX” doesn’t really describe interacting with public cryptocurency networks for me between the security concerns, transaction times, and obscure address names. Is there a particular use case that you have in mind where that’s an improvement on the status quo from a UX perspective?
Re:Coinbase Ventures by snissn on Friday April 06, 2018 @02:58AM (#16771446)
Are you including signing up for a credit card or bank, making sure you don't have inactivity fees in your checking account, paying your bills on a monthly basis and incurring late fees and credit score dings if you don't?
Re:Coinbase Ventures by chas on Friday April 06, 2018 @04:39AM (#16771840)
Yup, all-in the sign-up is roughly the same, the bills are pretty easy to keep paid, and fees are far less inconvenient than the possibility of losing control over a financially-significant private key.
Re:Coinbase Ventures by def_true_false on Friday April 06, 2018 @08:19AM (#16772607)
IBAN is not much more meaningful than a random string. International transactions usually take a day or more.
Re:Coinbase Ventures by chas on Friday April 06, 2018 @01:02PM (#16774886)
I don't think that aspect of centralized banking infrastructure has "very good UX" either. I could imagine something like PGP where the key management around hardware wallets and an interface like https://etherscan.io/ was serious UX improvement, but wasn't broadly disseminated knowledge yet.