> cheap loans
a loan that might double in the amount of fiat you have to pay back isn’t cheap, it’s nuts. Also there’s significant cost converting to and from fiat to take it out
> filecoin
https://randomoracle.wordpress.com/2019/12/07/filecoin-storj...
> LabDAO Toucan Golden.xyz
Why not just a centralised database though?
> Radicle.xyz
OK sure, if you have code that GitHub won’t accept, then this looks ok, but presumably it either has a mechanism to stop CSAM on it, at which point it can also be censored, or the Feds are coming for you if you run a node…
> Helium - Incentivization layer for the LoRaWAN network
Some kind of payment mechanism for sharing Wi-Fi? I didn’t have time to dig deep enough, but almost certainly a centralised authority would work better because it almost always does
> NFTs
Better handled by a central authority, and looks like OpenSea is already acting as one re stolen apes etc
> A blockchain is not a database … A blockchain is an escrow without a third party
And the lack of use-cases for that is the reason there are so few use-cases for blockchain
a loan that might double in the amount of fiat you have to pay back isn’t cheap, it’s nuts. Also there’s significant cost converting to and from fiat to take it out
> filecoin
https://randomoracle.wordpress.com/2019/12/07/filecoin-storj...
> LabDAO Toucan Golden.xyz
Why not just a centralised database though?
> Radicle.xyz
OK sure, if you have code that GitHub won’t accept, then this looks ok, but presumably it either has a mechanism to stop CSAM on it, at which point it can also be censored, or the Feds are coming for you if you run a node…
> Helium - Incentivization layer for the LoRaWAN network
Some kind of payment mechanism for sharing Wi-Fi? I didn’t have time to dig deep enough, but almost certainly a centralised authority would work better because it almost always does
> NFTs
Better handled by a central authority, and looks like OpenSea is already acting as one re stolen apes etc
> A blockchain is not a database … A blockchain is an escrow without a third party
And the lack of use-cases for that is the reason there are so few use-cases for blockchain