On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 02:20:04 +0200 Stefan Claas wrote:

And does the article also explain to starving artists about the enormous ETH gas costs, when minting such useless crap like NFTs?

Another thing the article doesn't mention is that the vast majority of all those cryptogarbage projects, bitcoin included, are NSA tools for total surveillance. Which is of course why government agent turds mindlessly promote them, so that people 'embed' 'videos' 'blog posts' and everything else in cryptographically 'secured' surveillance databases. Yeah, nothing says 'cypherpunk' like total surveillance. (like Jim Bell advocating joogle fucktarphone surveillance because of 'covid').

Regards Stefan

On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 1:59 AM professor rat wrote:

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https://cointelegraph.com/news/mirror-opens-access-to-its-blockchain-bloggin...

Once an Ethereum wallet is connected, users can start creating content and embedding media blocks such as videos, iFrames, social media posts, nonfungible tokens (NFT), auctions and crowdfunds. Blogs can also be imported from other platforms such as Medium or Substack.

Mirror users can share and fund their own work using the platform and the integration of Ethereum addresses.

Blogs can be minted as what the platform terms “Entry Editions,” which are a way for users to create NFTs of content and potentially monetize it.

On 10/8/21, Stefan Claas wrote:

If it would be like Monero

There are more and growing privacy coins to choose from, Monero-XMR is hardly the best in all design areas. Nor will most of today's cryptos even be alive 5-7-10 years from now, let alone ranked.

privacy email provider

Not your keys, not your privacy.

energy consumption all these crypto currencies require.

Your linked articles and limited scope have been thoroughly debunked multiple times on list and by honest analysts in cryptospace on macro relative all-in-net and displacement grounds.

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privacy coins

are they all ASIC resistance

Some people seem to want to know this info. So go do the research on which are or are not and then post your list of results here. You can even charge crypto for access. CPU's are ASIC's too but no one cries about them, because competitors entered the market instead of letting themselves be subject to gouging and preferential distribution and pre-use and ID reqs of just one maker of cpuminers, and because they never bothered to calculate the entire planet's worth of idle and used cpu power either. OMG, must ban all desktop, laptop, phone, pad, auto CPU's... must ban computing, gaming, and all internet hw cpu's, uses too much energy, more than bottom N countries combined. Freakout, call Greta, demand Biden ban it all! Just start with banning all GovBank cpus ok.

On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 8:02 PM Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote:

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in a block explorer and Joe average could mine daily with low energy consumption some coins to lets say sign-up with a privacy email provider accepting Monero than this would be probably an interesting use case, or using the blockchain with time stamping services, thus users can claim that they did certain things at a certain time, if they wish to do so.

But yes, all in all, I agree with you and nobody cares of the gigantic energy consumption all these crypto currencies require.

That's certainly a problem for things like bitcoin, eth, and even monero, because of 'proof of work'. Then we have 'proof of stake' where the value of the network is 'secured' by...the value of he network, which looks like a scam of sorts and probably allows more more centralization than proof of work. But yeah, so far all the systems have serious limitations.

A while ago, when the horrible Pi crypto currency project started, which used a local 'fountain' on a smartphone to 'mine', with one push of a button per day, I thought while not do something similar with a fountain on an offline computer and once you have some coins 'mined' you simply transfer the amount you like, as a file, securely to an online device and with that purchase then some online goods. If there would be a clever way worked out this would have IMHO the advantage that nobody knows how many funds I have in my offline wallet and the blockchain would only record the transactions. I think with the huge amount of different hashes, keys etc. a 256bit value, or greater can bear, there would most likely no collisions happen when many people create their tokens offline. P.S. The fountain in Pi did not require that you must play some games etc. at some intervals per day, it only required you to push a button once per day. Regards Stefan

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P.S. The fountain in Pi only required you to push a button once per day.

Uses electricity, must ban it. You used to be able to make free long distance phone calls by smashing buttons instead of paying paper bills. Woke energy retards would have banned that too, even though it replaced/cut other resource waste.

The Pi project was or is still based on Stellar.

Ripple-XRP, Stellar_Lumens-XLM... both supposedly way too highly centralized, corporate controlled, pre mined/allocated, not private, no protection from arbitrary inflation, GovBankCorp friendly/subservient, etc. There are far better coins, or at least free clones, that could be looked at instead.

free in a certain time frame to it's users and it was quickly abused with thousands of new sign-ups at keybase.io ...

They offered a service, people used it. Don't want people to use it, don't offer it like that.