Re:Crypto Market Crash Leaving Bankrupt Startups in Its Wake
by spookthesunset on Sunday December 09, 2018 @01:21PM
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Actually solar panels and distributed grids make a lot of sense and what was holding them back was the state of the technology. Unlike the blockchain, which is fundamentally broken for 99.999% of all use cases, distributed power grids could actually work with the right engineering.
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Re:Crypto Market Crash Leaving Bankrupt Startups in Its Wake
by gurumeditations on Sunday December 09, 2018 @02:37PM
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I know they sound really cool. I’m saying that it’s illogical to do so in the real world. Centralization is almost always cheaper, faster, and stronger.
Re:Crypto Market Crash Leaving Bankrupt Startups in Its Wake
by Nasrudith on Sunday December 09, 2018 @03:10PM
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They still have a place as a 'competitor of last resort' to force reasonability on centralized powers. They would essentially do to power what satellite dishes did to cable - and that was just another centralized power!
Sure satellite dishes are worse in latency and cost than running a cable but if the cable gets too unreasonable in comparison you can tell them to get bent and switch to satellite.