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I’m trying to think of use-cases for trusted stable-coins. The obvious one is just another way to sell products — this has failed for Bitcoin due to volatility risk.

One scenario I can think of is a decentralized e-reader and e-book marketplace:

- you have an e-reader app that is capable of decrypting books stored somewhere, as long as the content was encrypted with your public key

- authors publish their books to contracts that accept payments via an ERC20 stable-coin

- the contract responds by encrypting a copy of the book with your public key and placing it at a location your e-reader can retrieve it

Are there inherent advantages to a decentralized book store vs. Amazon though? Not sure…

This feels a bit to me like saying: "electric cars still have to charge their batteries somewhere, and they aren't necessarily being charged with renewable energy."

Electric cars provide the capability to power a car with renewable energy. Powering the grid with electric energy is a separate problem.

IPFS provides the capability of distribution. Incentivizing pinning is indeed a separate problem, but providing this capability feels like a huge step forward to me.

I'm seeing more of these "anti-blockchain" criticisms circulating lately. This one makes valid points about problems with the present state of the ecosystem, but the author seems to ignore the fact that these problems are addressable.

His basic criticism of smart contracts is they can have bugs, and they can be costly since they will often involve moving money. Yes, this is a fact. Many potential solutions are out there, but how about these two ideas for starters:

- a crypto-currency where at least accounts for certain transactions can be de-anonymized, so a person can be identified and face consequences when they commit a crime like hacking.

- special transactions with settlement periods in which they can be canceled in the event of a hack, which might be identified by voter consensus.

It seems like Wikipedia would be familiar with a lot of the same challenges that come with identifying fake news articles. Anyone more familiar than I am with Wikipedia care to comment?

A feature I'd love to see: sync to AirPods.

I imagine it won't happen because in some ways it's kind of backwards, but I hate running with my phone, especially because I have a huge 6+.

It seems like a simple thing to just want to be able to take some of my music/podcasts with me running, but it's not realistic unless I own a separate iPod shuffle that I then have to deal with. Adding a small amount of memory to AirPods would make this possible and relatively seamless.

Congrats to the team on launching this!

I just made my way through the first few sections. This is really great content, and I think you've done a nice job of making it accessible to beginners.

I'll be pointing many of my bootcamp prep learners to it for practice.

This is the coolest project I've heard about in a while. Thanks for sharing!