I've recently been told that I am ignorant about crypto and blockchain by numerous people on Blurt for blurting out my ignorance in comments.
I freely admit my ignorance and want to learn but like the kid in a classroom who asks too many questions I am just told to shut up and stay in my box. My box being trashing modern medicine.
How did I learn all I learned about modern medicine tho? By asking questions in comments that's how. It was a subject which I've always been interested in and having a creative mind I found it quite easy to get to the nitty gritty there.
With crypto and blockchain tho my brain finds it harder. It's a very left brain subject. Dare I say it also a very masculine subject. It feels like trying to sneak into 'The Mens Shed' to find out how they make stuff but if they hear my female voice I'm scuppered.
I feel that some people on here are losing patience with my constant questions and instead of trying to explain left-brain concepts to a right-brainer in a language I can understand without falling asleep they try to stick me in the corner and wear the dunces cap.
source: http://randyhaglund.com/archives/the-day-my-teacher-shot-me/
Today I learned a little bit more about these things from the founder of Bastyon. So this video is for all those others who would love to know a little bit about the web and crypto (basics) and why places like blurt are so important for the future.
https://bastyon.com/index?v=86f67dd60f7a642674e72e81df9394018f0b4040f65f5c3b75fab324b084c9a8&video=1
I knew nothing about 'web 2.0' and many other things he mentions here so quite enlightening for me.
I still have many questions tho...............
Even that video is over my head.
Yeh I know what you mean and he was basically speaking simply too. I'm sure it is all very simple just covered in word salad and smoke and mirrors.
Ive been playing about with cryptos for 5 years and still dont understand them. Understanding they are all ponzis is helpful though!
yeh I've heard that said too so went and looked up Ponzi to understand what it means. Knew it was something like pyramid selling. From what I read it sounds pretty accurate.
Yep - the foundation of cryptos, as well as banking!
Ze haf qvetions ?..It vill no be torelted !
Javoll mein herry pengueen
I have always answered your questions and I once asked you to write a post with all your questions so that I can answer them all at once.
But unfortunately you said it wasn't your style to ask or something to that effect. There's nothing I can do about that.
That was ages ago and at the time I was just getting my feet here. I can't write about things I have no passion about. As I've said the subject of crypto and blockchain is not something I feel I can write about especially when I am so ignorant of its workings.
I thought by now I would get it but even people I know on here who've been blogging for years don't seem to get it.
It's not about asking straight questions and getting a 'FAQ style' answer from you, it's more about understanding the whole concept from scratch.
When I think I have it then I will know the right questions to ask.
PS. Rycharde posted me this video today. It answered MANY of the questions I have but couldn't articulate. This is the kind of stuff I'm talking about.
Thank you for the video.
That's what I always thought when I hear people shouting "to the moon!" and "mass adoption!", that it's a call for more of the same. Once something is mainstream, it's what people pretend they didn't want even though they measure success by the biggest amount of money. As the old saying goes, "The devil shits on the biggest pile."
If there is only the main stream and it wants to absorb all the tributaries, these tributaries dry up. I also call them niches. The big stream is just NOT what people want who are looking for something else. Something that offers them a way out of "more of the same".
But what is crazy now is that an innovative idea only remains innovative as long as it falls below a critical mass and, as the speaker says, does not abandon the principles of freedom. It is the co-existence of what seeks to play out apart from the established, the legal, the fixed, the lawful, the consensus etc. etc. that must be free. It is the contrast to that which is believed to be safe, popular, accepted and assimilated.
I have never understood why the people who experience FB and other industry upstarts or moguls as boring or censorious can at the same time wish for their crypto-currency, which is just in its infancy, to become mainstream. But still, enough people have to accept a certain currency, because otherwise those who, as the speaker said, suffer from persecution or otherwise seek shelter or hiding cannot do much with bitcoin either.
The problem is that those who deviate from the system want the system to enable them to deviate, but the system "can't" do that. If it tolerated deviants, there would be no reason to deviate.
Perfect explanation of the Blurt dilemma. Can always count on you to get to the heart of the matter.
Just change your Profile pic to a dude or a cartoon and everything will be fine.
you reckon? lol
These Blockchains can be extremely cruel to non-technical people trying to understand how it all works. It’s a real problem. There is no way new people will stick around if they are treated so poorly. It’s like we have lost all basic social skills, and respect for our fellow human beings. Someone put the robots in charge. And it is brutal.
EXACTLY! You get it. I think they need us in the dark frankly which just makes some of us suspicious. Having dug to the bottom of the medical system and how they've kept us all in the dark I'm seeing similarities.
There are many good ways to earn a good living here on Blurt, (@upvu) Dtube, Steemit, Serey and Hive with staking and delegations (@upvu) but the whales don’t want you to know about them. It’s all a Big Secret. (@upvu) If you don’t need the money that’s fine, but you can buy a lot of land and a lot of seeds with all the Free Crypto from staking and delegations (@upvu).
in order to understand crypto
you only need to know one thing
"how does regular money work ?"
I already have that done. Know all about the fiat system and central banks being privately owned and all that. So say I have one token, I don't have a piece of paper with one token written on it so do i have a string of letters or numbers which equates to one token?
It's things like where do those codes come from and why that I'm a bit confused by. One of the witnesses told me on another thread that the 'computer code' prints the tokens itself. If that's true it does sound exactly like monopoly money.
just replace the word "frequent flyer miles" with "centralized crypto" (like ripple or "central bank crypto")
this one also provides some very interesting insight into blurt (greedy early investors)
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Shoot... I got into cryptocurrency back in high school when I was a total geek getting in trouble at school like the rebel I was back then (and still am). It's been a little under a decade already since I first learned about Bitcoin, I'm 28 now. I've got a background in coding, and I'm lucky to say I'm an early adopter, but even I get confused and can't keep up with all these young whipper snappers and their new-age blockchain technologies. lol
Funny, come to think of it, even when Steem first came out and I first heard of it I thought it was a bullshit scam. The Bitcoin - Litecoin - Dogecoin traditionalist in me didn't believe in this kind of version of a Delegated Proof-of-Stake consensus algorithm (some call it proof-of-brain). Crazy how this technology has evolved.
Thankyou, you seem to speak my language (plain english some call it) LOL. Yeh I have a friend who kept badgering me to but BTC right at the start and I also thought it must be a scam. I have another friend who did and now she's a BTC millionaire and swanned off to South America. I don't gamble and so didn't buy any.
When the next question comes up I'll start writing them down and will see what I can make of it. Then I'll give you a bell. Thanx
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