Re:Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together
by rezic on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @04:42AM
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Was it really necessary to use the word "shitcoins"? I'm not the one to say whether your argument is otherwise correct, but resorting to such childish naming only ends up hurting your point.
Chances are people just roll their eyes and scroll on to the next comment before they even finish the sentence.
Re:Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together
by craftyguy on Thursday February 27, 2020 @03:54PM
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> Was it really necessary to use the word "shitcoins"?
Yes.
> but resorting to such childish naming only ends up hurting your point.
Well, I'm not wrong.
Re:Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together
by rezic on Monday March 02, 2020 @07:43AM
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Not saying you're wrong, but if your reason for commenting was to convince someone you're right, you probably ended up failing that.
If you just wanted an excuse to shit on crypto then... ok.
Re:Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together
by gojomo on Thursday February 27, 2020 @12:18PM
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Each individual assertion in your comment, & your intended implication, is false.
Bitcoin, & close relatives, require a public ledger, but some altcoins use other technologies to prevent a publicly-readable ledger.
But, Brave uses an off-blockchain technology ('ANONIZE': https://tech.cornell.edu/built/anonize/) to tally attention without per-browser/per-user tracking. So, the use of their BAT tokens to net-out rewards, even though on the public Ethereum ledger, has no contradiction with the "tracker-free internet" goal.
Shitcoins require public, and trackable, ledgers, so you literally cannot say 'uses shitcoin' and 'tracker-free internet' in the same sentence.