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in blurt •  3 years ago 

I think nobody here trusts anybody. It's a problem of the digital business where people are asked to prove their work, for a lack of personal contacts, contracts and availability, for example.

The problem I see to give proof of work to the public is that if the public does not understand the technicalities of this work it won't perceive it as proven. Also, lack of technical understanding leads to insecurity.

Witnesses who don't really know their stuff, but who do know something about advertising and emotional influence, talk in the subjunctive or in future terms about their beautiful plans for improving the functions, and the untrained amateur may be impressed by the technical terms with which under-skilled witnesses decorate their blog posts.

If I have the impression that some witnesses are more at the level of a learner who sees the whole thing here rather as a training programme for his still-to-be-trained skills, it would be more appropriate on the part of the public and the founders who pay these witnesses not to continue paying the inexperienced if they cannot deliver the performance for which they are being compensated. Or to make a sliding scale in payment that differentiates between improving the functions and maintaining a server, for example.

I, as someone without technical understanding in code etc. , am a "dumb" user. In order to trust a platform like this, I need a space where I can go with one click and see the stats and numbers not only listed in tech jargon but also translated into language a lay person understands. If that would be already enough, I don't know. Probably not for me personally. I usually don't put any trust into digital relationships where I would risk money I can't spend just for the fun of it.
So I conclude that there must be a centralized team which can estimate the skills of their paid staff.

Still, when I am here for the mere fun of it (like in a casino) I need the casino to run working tables.

So far no one reacted to my question why I get a cartoon figure when I try to access certain user accounts. Any witness have an answer on that?

People are used to get information at a prominent and central place. One serves it better otherwise trust is going down even more. When I open blurt page, I shall immediately get directed to data/stats/proposals etc.

It's already one too many of a button I must press and also no self explaining term for a dumb user when he is able to find the side bar. Easy information must be at the front page which opens up and must appear in a more prominent way. But all I find is "hot, trending, new". That is such a poor design and landing way for dumb users.

You seem to know quite a bit about technicalities. Whom of the witnesses do you think it makes sense to ask? I know no one of them.

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  ·  3 years ago  ·  

Whom of the witnesses do you think it makes sense to ask? I know no one of them.

@outofthematrix


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I am here... I promised to be here for the people on the blockchain and not on Discord... and I stand to that!

I will try to help as best I can in this extremely heated up situation...

...und ich komme zufällig aus Deutschland... Also gern auch auf deutsch!

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

Naja, eigentlich hab ich keine Fragen. Der technische Mangel, den ich moniert hatte, der wurde von einem witness ausgeräumt.
Das Drama hier ist Lindenstraße. Abwarten, was geschieht.
Grüße aus dem Norden Deutschlands! :)

Ok! 👍 Das Drama legt sich auch gerade! Siehe mein Post: https://blurt.blog/blurt/@outofthematrix/end-these-freeze-rumors-right-now-beendet-endlich-diese-einfriergeruechte-eng-ger

LG aus dem sonnigen Osten!🌞

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

Danke :)

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

I think nobody here trusts anybody.

blockchain is supposed to be a "trustless system"


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  ·  3 years ago  ·  

Hm. I am not sure if it can be made one. Why would you want such a system anyway?
A trustless system requires the absence of humans in my understanding.
But running a blockchain without humans interactions does not make any sense, does it?

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

bitcoin is a trustless-system

anyone who wants to can run a node

all nodes must run identical code or be rejected from the network

51% of all nodes must change their code in order for the code to change

everyone can see all the code

no individual human has to trust any "authority" to tell them what is in the code

no individual human has to trust any other individual human to transfer bitcoin to another account

because the code can be trusted because the code is transparent

and because it would take an enormous amount of consensus in order to change the code

unlike hive and steem and blurt which only requires the consensus of 18 or so individuals

and in the steem case, one individual running 18 nodes

and in the hive case, maybe three individuals and 15 sycophants


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  ·  3 years ago  ·  

As ingenious as this Satoshi system is, it turned out that it is only possible for a few to buy bitcoins. This eliminates it as a usable system for the general public, doesn't it?

Since mining bitcoins involves immense energy expenditure, it is not a very economically viable system from this point of view either.
It seems to me that it is a fascinating theoretical possibility of transfers via electronic means.

For those who perceive the digital world as a Janus-faced sphere, or the negative aspects, it may well be seen as threatening. From what I have read, the fiat money system seems to be down and the economic forces are doing everything they can to keep it alive. Some believe that Bitcoin is the salvation from this. I know too little to be able to judge that.

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

Since mining bitcoins involves immense energy expenditure, it is not a very economically viable system from this point of view either.

amazon aws (webhosting) uses MORE electricity than all "bitcoin mining"

it seems a bit strange that everyone is so concerned about "immense energy expenditure" for bitcoin, but not for the "immense energy expenditure" of building banks and running delivery trucks and running bank servers and running stock-market servers and running google servers and running aws...


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  ·  3 years ago  ·  

I don't think you're talking about me? In fact, everything you mentioned consumes a lot of energy. The sum of all this seems to be worrying. I don't know any solutions or answers to it.

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

the "immense energy expenditure" of bitcoin is a point in its favor

because it proves bitcoin is more valuable than electricity


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  ·  3 years ago  ·  

As ingenious as this Satoshi system is, it turned out that it is only possible for a few to buy bitcoins.

anybody with $100 can by an uncensorable fraction of a bitcoin

This eliminates it as a usable system for the general public, doesn't it?

no, anyone with an email address can receive bitcoin

you can send as little as one quarter of one eighth of a pfennig


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  ·  3 years ago  ·  

anybody with $100 can by an uncensorable fraction of a bitcoin

What could I do with a fraction of a bitcoin?

  ·  3 years ago  ·  

hold on to it and wait for it to 10X


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  ·  3 years ago  ·  

or donate it to your favorite wikileaks project or other censored organization


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  ·  3 years ago  ·  

the fiat money system seems to be down and the economic forces are doing everything they can to keep it alive.

100%



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