No arguments here for any of your concerns. Thanks for the feedback.
I know it's just noize, but as I search for this Holy Grail, a compelling
reason or story that can help me grow the Internet of my dreams, I have a
hunch that it will be something at the very edge of my acceptance and
discomfort. I'm just crazy enough to still hope that from this
vulnerability and desperation, a seed of hope can grow: a free and open
Internet.
On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 1:16 PM, Chris Jefferies <chris(a)freeranger.com>
wrote:
Blockchain is a technology for a federated validation
of transactions be
it bitcoin, contracts, purchases of energy. Crypto-currencies have so far
proven to be too volatile to be meaningful and is currently only useful for
speculators. Puerto Rico is vulnerable and desperate. No central bank
worthy of good governance would go with something like bitcoin.
On Feb 5, 2018 3:36 AM, "Kevin Shockey" <shockeyk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> If you need something to cleanse your information palette...
>
> Blockchain and crypto-currency is super hot here, read this it's very
> entertaining:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/technology/
> cryptocurrency-puerto-rico.html.
>
> This is relevant for us because, if there are are technologists that can
> help me, they will be attending the explosion of Meetups taking place.
> Plus, I skimmed an article that mentioned using block-chains for energy,
> instead of a currency it entitles the bearer to actual energy. I haven't
> checked, but it makes sense too for Internet, the implications are a little
> scary.
>
> Any way, back to the regular programming
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