On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 11:00:44AM +0200, Felix Stalder wrote:
apps etc are more or less the same than five years ago. In response, lots of VC-capital is funding blockchain technologies, which, so far, have proven completely useless. A real dead-end.
They're very good for scamming people, though. Someone must have though "Ponzi schemes are really ripe for disruption", and here we are. It sounds really sophisticated, and no one wants to say that it's difficult to understand because they don't want to appear stupid. Cue all the articles in the mainstream press peddling this nonsense. It can't go to 0 quick enough.
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