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Re:Show HN: Squads – Social Trading for Web3 on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @03:41PM (#30936599)
thanks for sharing, I've been looking for something like this!

do you have any plans to expand into other chains?

Re:The Mirrortable on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @02:29AM (#29711387)
The "global spreadsheet" is the whole point of the blockchain. An excel spreadsheet obviously would break down over many companies and many users. A JSON api would work but how will you enforce the API over many companies, devs, and users? How do you know someone didn't tweak some of the logic or change some info in their DB?

The blockchain gives you the ability to make a shared interface, a shared DB, and a way to audit whenever someone changes the interface or the data.

I could give you a dozen examples of someone just "throwing the internet" at some problem 20 years ago... Spotify just throws the internet at music distribution, etc...

Those companies have turned out to be extremely valuable because they all solve real pain points of actual users and Balaji is a highly knowledgable investor who experiences this actual pain point so I wouldn't downplay this as throwing blockchain at anything and everything...

- Balaji Fan