>
> ...
>
> Hi,
>
> thanks guys for your opinions on blockchais, But neither pointing to
> authority in the matter (apprently we are all experts all the time) nor
> polemicizing against a non-mature technology will help me in
> understanding the phenomena. let's get back to the subject in ten years
I regret to be this anal - nettime is not (that) technical forum, but in
this case blockchain has has nothing to do with securing IoT
communications. At best, blockchain can provide authentication (ie.
public key tied to identity), with properly expensive PoW, which is not
the case here.
This
>
>
> That article is technical nonsense. 'Blockchain' that has PoW consisting
> of 1.6 second of handset CPU is trivial to fake. And where is the
> consensus? Car does the same? Or is car running 500KW GPU cluster doing
> hash verified by ... who? Cheap PoW ("Proof of Work") is contradiction
> in
On 2 Mar 2018, at 15:17, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> We need blockchain powered nettime! BLOCKTIME!
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On 03/03/2018 09:20 AM, Patrice Riemens wrote:
And then, cryptocurrencies don't make very much economic sense either.
Their only merit is have bootstrapped rethinking money and currencies
- even though not necessarily in the 'right' direction.
Talking about monetary alternatives, I find LET
On 02.03.2018 22:27, Carsten Agger wrote:
>
>
> On 03/02/2018 09:17 PM, Morlock Elloi wrote:
>> That article is technical nonsense. 'Blockchain' that has PoW
>> consisting of 1.6 second of handset CPU is trivial to fake. And where
>> is the consensus? Car does the same? Or is car running 500KW GP
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Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Josh Hall: Blockchain could reshape our
world – and the far right is one step ahead (Guardian)
Date: 2018-03-03 09:30
From: Patrice Riemens
To: Morlock Elloi
Cc: Eduard Karel de Jong , Geert Lovink
Woooaaah! Time for a fresh Sokal-Bricmont! I can
On 2018-03-02 22:27, Carsten Agger wrote:
On 03/02/2018 09:17 PM, Morlock Elloi wrote:
That article is technical nonsense. 'Blockchain' that has PoW
consisting of 1.6 second of handset CPU is trivial to fake. And where
is the consensus? Car does the same? Or is car running 500KW GPU
cluster do
Interesting point of view!
Non-blockchain technologies are badder (because they are far more
efficient and actually work) for implementing dystopia, so blockchain's
dismal inappropriateness and inefficiency are counter-measures against
the dystopia. It's a poison pill.
Finally I get it.
Blo
On 03/02/2018 09:17 PM, Morlock Elloi wrote:
That article is technical nonsense. 'Blockchain' that has PoW
consisting of 1.6 second of handset CPU is trivial to fake. And where
is the consensus? Car does the same? Or is car running 500KW GPU
cluster doing hash verified by ... who? Cheap PoW (
That article is technical nonsense. 'Blockchain' that has PoW consisting
of 1.6 second of handset CPU is trivial to fake. And where is the
consensus? Car does the same? Or is car running 500KW GPU cluster doing
hash verified by ... who? Cheap PoW ("Proof of Work") is contradiction
in terms.
T
Hi,
On 01.03.2018 04:32, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> I have hard time understanding how is blockchain special, unique, and
> apart from other technologies, relative to dystopian outlook in the
> article.
>
Yeah, it is rather dystopian. There is this logical expansion for
commodified societies inheren
I have hard time understanding how is blockchain special, unique, and
apart from other technologies, relative to dystopian outlook in the article.
The only difference between blockchain and prior technologies (public
cryptography, including signatures and certificates, databases, etc.) is
the
Alice Weidel is not listed on the site of the event. Nevertheless, she
was a trader or broker for some hedge fund or so, afair. Her 'expertise'
lies in finance, therefore the guardian article's claim is not totally
out of the blue. Since I am located in Hamburg, I will follow the news
on the event.
After witnessing assorted Bitcoin, blockchain, Ethereum and related
meetings, lectures, conferences and such, audiences ranging from people
from the street to Ivy League PhDs:
- Most informal meetings have pure religious feeling; people smile and
listen. The content is irrelevant. Idiocy rules
I did a linguistic experiment - replaced word 'Blockchain' with
'mayonnaise' throughout the article, and the amount of sense remained
constant (that particular word was sense-neutral.)
It's very hard to find actual use for blockchain.
This thought experiment provides some help: imagine a large
Yes, I completely agree with Carsten.
And as I cannot repeat often enough that I am a mere 'text filterer',
which is the primary purpose of nettime (see at bottom) I will repeat
again that I do not necessarily agree with other people's text I post,
but do so only because I find them interestin
On 23-02-2018 13:11, Patrice Riemens wrote:
Original to:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/23/blockchain-reshape-world-far-right-ahead-crypto-technology
Blockchain could reshape our world – and the far right is one step ahead
Crypto technology is coming to a crossroads.
Unfortunately Alice Weidel is not on the list of speakers on the website of this conference, as the text claims...
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correct version (fingers X-ed)
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Original to:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/23/blockchain-reshape-world-far-right-ahead-crypto-technology
Blockchain could reshape our world – and the far
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