[1/*] Just to clarify, in the hopes of getting less lunacy in my mentions: I am a professional programmer. I have implemented novel hash functions before. I work on server code. I long ago read and completely understand the original BitCoin paper.
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I have a neighbor who uses crypto as a way to heat his house, does that count? (and no, this is not a joke)
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I suspect that you tell us about a consensus protocol that provides the features we care about (e.g. it is a censhorship-resistant highly available public database that people can write to a subset of if they control the appropriate keys)...
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...we will call it a blockchain, even if this fails to be an accurate descriptor.
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I think you will have to interview psychologist instead of highly technical people to get to the bottom of this.
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Right now, this is shown next to your tweet -- people are not very clever, dude. Even my personal trainer "invests" in several altcoins
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I fully agree and am looking for more high quality material on the subject. One important distinction to make is that the blockchain doesn't define the consensus algorithm. A bank could define their database as a blockchain made by hosts fully under the bank control.
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This is more or less what any database using Paxos (Google Spanner) or Raft (CockroachDB) is doing. For decentralized consensus databases — blockchains — you have consensus based on proof-of-work and proof-of-stake. Both ideas are highly parameterizable.
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It provides a buzzword to add to your website to increase venture capital
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It's not only technical. Maybe you could interview Craig S Wright too. https://craigwright.net/
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Would you be willing to ask them to disclose their financial stake in cryptocurrencies at the start of the interview? It's important to understand how someone benefits when they are trying to sell you something
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There's no point in asking since they can lie without any consequence at all.
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