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Re:Web3 is the big idea customers didn’t ask for? by mjburgess on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @11:55AM (#31921952)
Do the opposite: take the best functioning crypto system you can imagine, and remove all the tech decentalisation and inherent transaction costs.

I think you'll find you've just invented a better version of that system.

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Re:Web3 is the big idea customers didn’t ask for? by sshine on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @12:05PM (#31922089)
> remove all the tech decentalisation and inherent transaction costs.

cost: check, definitely.

decentralisation: nope, that's the point.

If you have to go to bitcoin.com to get your drug money, you can just shut that site down.

The Pirate Bay still works even though it's blocked in lots of countries, because running a mirror on a new domain is incentivised by littering the site with scammy ads, and the trackers and magnet links are an organic, decentralised matter.

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Re:Web3 is the big idea customers didn’t ask for? by mjburgess on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @12:10PM (#31922145)
Cash

Yes, you'd then need some middlemen... but are the cost of those middlemen really higher than a skil-road rugpull? Or a crypto crash? Or all the pyramid-scheme lot coming in to pump your dark money system, and screwing you over?

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