Hi Richard, I just read an article about Ethereum, and smart contracts.
How one would approach this with LiveCode would be an interesting topic, although it does raise some questions. For example: Assume that someone writes an app like a game, that is stored as a smart contract. Although it is decentralized, future obsolescence of hardware and software, will eventually make the game obsolete too. Then it’s just trash data slowing down blockchain transactions. Does that make sense? The article I read also discussed CrytoKitties which I would say is the same as NFT artwork. I don’t see much value in that kind of artwork. There is also speculation that the reason some of this artwork has sold for large sums of money is because it is being used by criminal elements to conduct money laundering. That of course falsely makes the currency seem that it must have some real value, that fools others into investing in it. There has to be a better way to implement such ideas. Just my 2 cents. Thanks for your replies! Rick > On Dec 16, 2022, at 2:25 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > The question is almost too big to answer, akin to asking about file systems > or sockets. The range of applications for blockchains are currently too big > to count, and only just beginning. > > As far as a role for LC, I've seen some interest from LC users but nothing > very specific, and nothing along the lines of libraries or tooling yet. > > I am meeting with another LC user with an interest in this space next week. > If anything noteworthy comes up I'll report back. > > In the meantime, my own interest is mostly centered around the corner of the > Ethereum world focused on smart contracts. I have no interest in speculative > psuedo-currency applications, but now that Eth2 is running and gas fees are > plummeting, there's a universe of opportunity in smart contracts. At the > moment nearly all of that work is limited to one language, Solidity, so that > and studying the underlying protocols and data structures of Ethereum nodes > have been where my time in this space has been invested. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
