CryptoKitties: breedable cats on the blockchain – ETHWaterloo winner(alpha.cryptokitties.co) |
CryptoKitties: breedable cats on the blockchain – ETHWaterloo winner(alpha.cryptokitties.co) |
Smart contracts are cool, but it's nothing you couldn't achieve with any other decentralized protocol. The only interesting part of cryptocurrencies (imo) is the ledger, and from what I've seen, the BTC ledger is becoming a bit unwieldly. ETH will probably follow suit.
It forced two gigantic industries (music and movie) to re-invent themselves, how can you say it only had a decent impact?
I think the "let-down" is akin to what it would feel like if the end-result of the blockchain in a decade would amount to little more than cheap, low-friction international payments (and those not even powered by a blockchain, but simply by the banks getting their shit together). That's great and all, but the blockchain hype is way up there with enabling anarchist utopia.
Seriously! It completely up-ended entertainment and forced new business models on multi-billion dollar entrenched players. Hundred of billions of dollars later it's no longer a question if it had a revolutionary impact IMHO.
What are those other ways?
What does this mean? Has cat #105 already won? I thought it wouldn't start until late November.
I knew it would be porn or cats.
And so is http://rotten.com/ :(
Finally, after almost a decade in zombie mode. That's impressive. I wonder where it was running.