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I`ve talked to blockchain bro`s since day one about this stuff. "Houses as NFTs" etc etc. It`s a simple grift, an empty scam, substituting a woo-woo-tech "solution" to obscure the fact that the basic idea is houses as bearer bonds.

Transfer the NFT? O.k, what happens if the wrong NFT is transferred and the person refuses to give it back?

What happens if someone hacks your wallet and steals your apes and your house. Do you have to move out?

What happens if the wrong data gets entered and an apartment block has one less floor of apartments than actually exists?

What is your blockchain solution to the boring everyday errors and fraud that occur in real life?

Here`s the problem. My shiftless nephew put a key logger on my computer and transferred my house NFT to his own wallet. Now he`s claiming I gave it to him and is aiming to sell it. Walk me through the process resolving this, step by step. .

There's no such thing as a room temperature super-conducting magnet. You are talking about "high temperature" magnets, which are YBCO tape magnets. High temperature, in this case, means about -290 degrees F.

The next breakthrough that will come will be YBCO powder-in-tube wires, that will allow much stronger fields than currently. They'll be here within a decade, probably much less, as working prototypes exist now.

The "Torygraph"? This newspaper has always been shrill semi-Fox News tripe.

Yeah, he's on some kind of messed up head trip, that's for sure. Osaka here.

This article was from almost two years ago when the pandemic wasn't even going properly.

Your contention is that masks don't work, and Japanese people don't wear them? I travel the loop line to and from work during rush hour each day, and yeah, while I don't canvas every single person, to my mind, I don't see anyone not masked up and wearing it correctly.

On my way today actually, remembering your goofy statements, I kept a special eye out, just for you. Carriages stuffed full of people, lines and lines on the platforms, train doors opening and waves of people pouring out to change trains, little groups of elementary schoolkids walking together to school....I didn't see a single person today (bar a couple of dudes with their masks down while they smoked outside Lawsons) not masked. You just don't see people not fully masked up. Day in, day out. Sorry if I don't keep a little tally counter on me.

"You're doing it too." What does this even mean? I drink within a closed circle of friends or family in a bar with separated tables and screens up. The staff all wear masks. Life goes on, but because of the masks and distancing measures, the transmission rates remain low.

You have an incoherent world-view and grasp of logic. Are you incapable of understanding that there is a sliding scale of masking behaviour? With Japan at one end, and the dolts screaming about mandates in street protests at the other?

Again, I say, don't listen to this guy. Wear a mask (properly). Get vaccinated. (Is that punctuation more to your liking?)

Yeah, this is an example of what I'm talking about. I'll get on the train this morning and ride to work and probably see 100,000 people, none of whom are unmasked or wearing "chin masks". I'll work all day and not see a single one of my co-workers faces. Same thing on the way home. Then, because it's Friday, I'll go out for drinks with my wife or maybe the same friends I usually see because we aren't in lockdown, and spend a couple of hours in a bar unmasked. Maybe I'll post a photo of myself having a beer?

Yet you have some friends on Instagram who post when they're out, and have seen some news reports (probably of the variety of "Japan's COVID mystery, why are their numbers so low?") where they hunt out some drongos in some dodgy tachinomya who aren't wearing masks for their story about how Japanese people aren't wearing masks either, and because it fits into your worldview, you'll glom onto that and post some non-peer reviewed rubbish that confirms your fervent wish that you shouldn't be in any way inconvenienced.

Oh look at that, I just saw the morning news. 115 new cases of COVID today in a country of 120 million during the Delta wave. It's a mystery I tell you. A complete mystery.

Don't listen to this guy, wear a mask, get vaccinated.

I live in Japan and everyone here wears a mask, but more importantly, wears them properly. Many Japanese people are already attuned to wearing them during flu season, and everyone wears them if they think they are getting a cold so it's no big deal for everyone to wear them the whole time, kids included. I'm not Japanese, but I get with the program and after a while, you don't notice it.

Masks are, of course, effective. Again, if you wear them properly and constantly, and everyone wears them.

The people who DON'T want to wear them and who wish to make it a political act will dredge up all sorts of B.S studies and data showing that "mandates" don't work and therefore extrapolate from that that masks themselves don't work, when any examination of the scene will show 60% of people wearing them 60% of the time, noses hanging out, lifting them up to talk, only putting them on when they've taken a few steps into the shop etc etc.

Masks work. If you wish to be honest about it, you'd say "They work, but we can't get our citizens to wear them."

I'm not that au fait with the other cases you mention, but Helium is a straight up scam. No-one uses it for anything at all, even in markets where they have full coverage. This is because, in the real world, companies need security. They will pay a little bit extra so that: A: The network works everywhere, and doesn't suddenly develop dead spots because Jason went scuba diving for a week and turned off his node and B: There is someone on the end of the phone they can call when things go wrong.

No-one beyond those trying to make money of their tokens cares about Helium at all, easily provable by looking at their data record. "Oh....but LIME scooters!" No, they ripped off Lime's logo and are BSing that Lime uses their network. Lime doesn't. Lime uses a non-blockchain network called Twillio, because they are a real business in the real world need the things I mentioned above. https://customers.twilio.com/2050/lime/

Helium's only business, like every blockchain business that I have ever seen, is scamming people to buy tokens and selling them hardware. Oh, and lying.

I think that the main problem with this logic is that Bittorrent is a tech designed to illegally distribute a consumer good, ie a movie. Once the movie has made it's final stop, your eyeballs, that's it. It's been consumed. Cryptocurrency only has value if you can sell it on to someone else, and it's value is entirely dependent on what value you think you will be able to sell it for.

Once the number starts to go down as fiat on/off ramps start to get squeezed, it will be come much much less attractive to everyone, including, and maybe especially, to criminals. It only have value to them currently because they can store value in it and exchange it for fiat with non-criminals. If it becomes criminalized everywhere, and their only option is exchanging it with other criminals......well. It's not the same as Bittorrent is it?

I think that the main problem with this logic is that Bittorrent is a tech designed to illegally distribute a consumer good, ie a movie. Once the movie has made it's final stop, your eyeballs, that's it. It's been consumed.

Cryptocurrency only has value if you can sell it on to someone else, and it's value is entirely dependent on what value you think you will be able to sell it for.

Once the number starts to go down as fiat on/off ramps start to get squeezed, it will be come much much less attractive to everyone, including, and maybe especially, to criminals. It only have value to them currently because they can store value in it and exchange it for fiat with non-criminals. If it becomes criminalized everywhere, and their only option is exchanging it with other criminals......well. It's not the same as Bittorrent is it?

You should be getting some of them back soon then right?

No, you are correct. You could do it the way you claim. Build in workarounds, try and get everyone to use less efficient tech, try and fix problems of errors and fraud, but I don't think it ever will happen. It's not going to replace a database? So why do we need it?

Centralized control will always be faster and more efficient and less fragile. Errors can be fixed, fraud can be blocked. Fans of blockchain would be a lot less certain that the tech had value if they were unable to shill a token.

Why isn't Apple jumping in to use them? They could set up their own blockchain right? Well, because the central issuing authority doesn't want to lose control of them. Why aren't ticket resales on the blockchain? Because the central issuing authority doesn't want to lose control of them. And that's what you will run into, every time.

All the things you claim that will be able to be done with the blockchain can already be done. So yeah, I guess we'll wait and see.

The goal of drugs is to do the drugs. They are consumer goods. You buy them, then consume them. Crypto has no value unless you can sell it on to someone else, and that's it's ONLY value. That is the glaring difference, and it's weakness.

The problem with this sort of reasoning is that it conflates an e.mail or a downloaded movie (or a bag of cocaine) with a cryptocurrency or token. E.mails/movies/dope etc are all basically consumer goods. Read the e.mail, wipe it. Put the coke up your nose, watch the movie.

It only has to go as far as the person you are sending it to, and it's journey is finished, and it's value is realised. Crypto is entirely different in that it has no value unless you can sell it on to another person. That final step is it's weak point.

1: It doesn't prove it. The only thing it proves is that you have the NFT. The only way to prove you have the degree is to contact the central authority, thereby invalidating the need for the blockchain entirely.

2: All your examples can be done easily without blockchain. Perks, discounts, coupons, tickets etc. We already do all of this just fine.

3: "They wouldn't". Lol. Why not? It takes them zero effort, it would be an automated system, and guess what, it totally destroys your whole assertation. Doesn't it? GameX would check with Blizzard for reason that Blizzard would also check with GameX.

4: Ownership with NFTs is entirely unenforceable. Contrary to your point, you are the one who actually doesn't understand NFTs, nor the real world it seems. You seem to want to turn everything into a bearer bond, when in fact nothing in real life will ever work that way.

ID's? Ok, you have some ID token that "proves" you are 21. Does that mean you are 21? No, the only thing it proves is that you have the token. In any consequential case, the entity wanting to verify your age would have to check back with a central authority to determine if it's valid or not, thereby invalidating the need for the blockchain.

Tickets? You somehow think any ticketing agency on earth will hard over all control to what happens to the tickets they have sold?

Coupons? You've seen all the legalese and prohibitions written on coupons I take it. There are more rules about what you can and can't do with a 10% Off Pizza Hut token than many contracts. Yet you think they'll start putting them on the blockchain?

You live in fantasy-land mate. No game company is going to devote a whole bunch of effort and programming time into allowing someone with assets from a competitor to use them in their game.

As a crypto-punk owner myself, I feel that that NFTs are the future. Look at this baby. 250k. https://openpuddle.io/?id=328wfloxyf

That's your example? A sword in a video game? Honestly though, I guess it makes sense, because NFTs are arse for anything that has actual real life meaning. Even you, yourself, realised that halfway through your post. Yeah, no shit your degree is worthless if the university says it's worthless.

So, on to video games. You think it would work that way huh? Your sword would still be worth something if Blizzard revoked it because you "own" it? You are making the mistake of thinking that whatever game you want to use the sword in wouldn't check with Blizzard to find out if you are a douchebag who has been banned or not, before they allowed you to use the sword for something in their game. They'd check, see that Blizzard has no record of it on their database, then decide that you'd either been banned or had stolen it, then block you.

Btw: Even this won't happen. Read what an actual game developer says about it. https://docseuss.medium.com/look-what-you-made-me-do-a-lot-o...

Number go up. And so I can flex online. Do you see how much that bad boy costs?

This is really dumb sorry. Just one great big "waddabout" going on and on about problems OTHER tech has, and not addressing my question at all. I'll ask again.

The University sends your medical degree to someone with the same surname as you by mistake and you get their basket weaving degree. They refuse to return it.

What do you do? You go to the university, and they check their CENTRALISED MASTER RECORD, notice the mistake, and fix it.

So. #1: Why do you need blockchain at all? #2: How can you have your blockchain system WITHOUT also having a centralised database somewhere?

The answer, as always with blockchain, is "So I can sell you a token." Always.

That's not a solution. Most places have computerised land records, and maybe they aren't so great, but that is an argument for a new modern database, not a worse one (blockchain).

I own a cryptopunk NFT. https://openpuddle.io/?id=328wfloxyf

I'm happy to answer any questions about it that you may have.

I'm not an expert on the technology, but I've seen this same argument from friends of mine who are into a blockchain they claim will allow people to carry their Universities degrees / Academic qualifications with them. Similar to your "wallet" idea I guess.

So, by dint of being tokens, accreditation, land deeds, car papers, game items etc etc etc must all be able to be transferred right? Which means they can also be stolen or attributed to the wrong people right? So, if you get hacked and your car registration token gets stolen, or if someone steals your degree and starts walking around pretending to be a doctor using your token, what do you do? In fact, what happens if the University accidentally gives your degree to someone with the same surname as you, and you get a Diploma in Basket Weaving instead of your medical degree and they refuse to give it back? Because these things will happen endlessly.

Well, as always, you'll go to the DMV or the cops or the Uni and they'll.....what exactly? The answer, necessarily, will be to check their master records to see who should have what, and then change it. Which totally obliviates the purpose of the decentralised blockchain.

You can see this in action with that dope who had his cartoon ape NFT stolen. What did he do? Immediately appealed to the closest thing to a centralised authority there is, Twitter and the ape community, and begged them not to buy "his" NFTs. Then contacted the exchanges and begged them not to sell. Then contacted the cops. Then, in a move with a jaw-dropping lack of self awareness said it "didn't matter" that the NFT had been stolen, because he "still owned those apes". So in the space of about ten minutes, he firebombed every core tenet of NFTs, and that was over a cartoon ape in the first moments of NFTs even being a "thing".

What's your solution for the guy who gets his house token stolen?