• Kecessa
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    3 months ago

    It would probably have been a centralized system though so much easier to control it.

    A bit like USDT that is controlled by a company that has frozen assets on certain accounts in the past and replaced those frozen assets with new ones. They have control over the contract so they can just prevent certain wallets from interacting with it, making the coins useless as they’re stuck in the wallet (need to interact with the contract in order to move coins around).

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        3 months ago

        Well, just the fact that it’s 100% transparent is a step forward compared to the stock exchange as it is at the moment and otherwise your comment also applies to the stock exchange as it is working now…

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          3 months ago

          if you’re gonna come in here and spew coiner bullshit at least make it entertaining for fuck’s sake

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            3 months ago

            Just trying to be more neutral in my analysis of the question, there’s major issues with the stock exchange, some of them would be solved by the adoption of blockchain, I’m not saying it would make everything better, I’m just saying that OP’s top comment might have been a bit exaggerated.

            Hell, even the efficiency thing, if it’s centralized and they have their own network (instead of relying on an existing network) it can use the same amount of energy as the system they’re using right now…

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          “we made the plane 100% transparent! now you can tell if the pilots are doing anything bad, it’s a major step forward. also it doesn’t really fly now”

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            the plane’s made of perspex and the wires are salt-soaked strings wrapped in liquorice strips for isolation but it’s fine, our designer signed off on it

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              Wasn’t the space ship in Niven’s Ringworld series both literally indestructible and transparent? There’s no way I’m going back to check because Niven is one of those authors I realized decades after reading him was a dirty old man.

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            I mean, it’s not as if stock exchanges were working that well at the moment even though they’re opaque… A centralized blockchain vs a centralized database like is used at the moment isn’t much different, except that in the first case at least everyone can see what’s going on behind the curtain if they feel like it… Same principle as open source projects, the program runs no matter if the code is made public or not, but if it’s made public the people who are interested in that can at least check how things work.