• upto60percentoff@kbin.run
    2·
    5 months ago

    A distributed pseudonymous ledger for use by a centralised authority that will hold sensitive, personal information.

    I think the paper was right.

  • alekwithak@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The Blockchain is amazingly useful, that’s why the establishment did their best to make sure people associate with incels and little monkey pictures to ruin its credibility. A banking system running on Blockchain is one where the Pentagon can’t lose trillions of dollars annually.

    • miridius@lemmy.world
      0·
      5 months ago

      A banking system running on Blockchain

      Is an astronomically terrible idea. It:

      • would use as much electricity as an entire country
      • payments/transfers would be both much slower AND much more expensive than via a bank
      • would have no protection against fraud. You got scammed? Your money’s gone. You paid for something online and it never arrived? Too bad
      • would have no way to stop money laundering
      • would have no way to help people who forgot their password, they’d just lose their life savings permanently
      • would tie up a bunch of capital, preventing reinvestment and growth. There would be no way to get a bank loan to buy a house for example
      • the list goes on
      • drathvedro@lemm.ee
        01·
        5 months ago

        payments/transfers would be both much slower AND much more expensive than via a bank

        Not necessarily. You could have a federated system, where only big players like banks participate in larger blockchain, like banks already do with forex and wire transfers and pay ridiculous fees to clearing agencies, and clear out local transfers locally, possibly inside their own smaller and much faster blockchain.

  • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
    0·
    5 months ago

    What about all the games where you can shoot people? Why is that okay for kids, but a little tit here and there will destroy their view of the world?

    Didn’t these things get their starts by sucking on tits? So why hide them now?

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      I love it when people define porn as “just some titties”, and ignore all the violent hardcore shit that’s defining a generation of men who don’t understand sex or women.

      • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
        0·
        5 months ago

        And you think the solution to that is to force me to use a government porn tracking service?

        How about you be responsible for your kids, and I’ll be responsible for mine. I do not care what your kids do on the internet.

        • Firipu@startrek.website
          01·
          5 months ago

          Until your daughter comes home with a boyfriend with a fucked up sense of what sex is and ruins her day/week/month/year/life.

          I’m certainly not pro government tracking anything I do, let alone porn watching, but if I see how my own kids get exposed to it through friends. No matter how much I try to educate them, friends still show them absolute vile stuff…