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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 224 points 1 month ago

Mom's new boyfriend is a smart fella, but her son seems to be a fart smella.

[-] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 month ago

Modern day poetry, 👌👌👌👌

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago

Most hilarious tongue twister for kids under 10:

One smart fella, he felt smart
Two smart fellas, they felt smart
Three smart fellas, they all felt smart

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

How did this one not make the rounds when I was a kid? All we had was Claude Balls, Seymour Butts, and Jack Mehoff. Oh and super racist stuff about the Polish that stays dead.

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[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 163 points 1 month ago

I’ve read that blockchain itself is a good technology. NFTs are a laughably absurd attempt to exploit that technology for profit.

Xitter op needs to shut up.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 151 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Blockchain is a solution in search of a problem. A way to establish trust while not trusting any party is a cool concept, but in the real world it's far easier to establish a source of trust.

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Congratulations, now your trust relies on your subject never becoming important enough that someone bothers to run 50%+1 of the nodes in your network which means only very, very large subjects (or ones where trust wasn't very important in the first place) ever even have a chance of that not happening. What do you say? Your technology doesn't scale to very, very large subjects because of abysmal transaction rates?

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[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 month ago

It is a bad solution though, because it revolves around wasting tons of energy in solving made up problems no one actually needs the solution to. I know there's alternative cryptocurrency that use better methods or solve actual problems but 90% of it is bitcoin.

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[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 52 points 1 month ago

What problem does blockchain solve?

[-] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 112 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Having too much electricity and not enough CO2.

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago

We recently developed AI for that purpose though which does the same thing but is useless in occasionally funny ways.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 26 points 1 month ago

Apparently, it can be very secure. If “pieces” of a secure key are stored in multiple places, for example, only changing one link in the “chain” means it won’t match with the others. They ALL have to be changed at the same time, which is virtually impossible to do in secret.

Please note that I am far from an expert on the subject. I’m paraphrasing an article I read months ago.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 month ago

Can’t you takeover a blockchain by owning the majority of a block chain, or by having a majority of the processing power to compute hashes?

[-] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago

Yes which is part of why the major chains are owned and controlled by companies, but then that makes the whole thing pointless. IMO, a company controlled blockchain may as well just be a DB cluster, it would be faster and more efficient.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago

Are you saying that they “solve” that by never giving up more than 49% stake?

That… seems like a bad solution

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[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 21 points 1 month ago

Essentially, verifiability (the token exists on the blockchain), de-duplication (each token can only exist once on the blockchain), and proof of ownership (only one account number can be associated with each token on the blockchain). There's nothing wrong with this idea in a technical sense and it could be useful for some things.

But... the transaction process is computationally expensive. For the transaction to be trustworthy, many nodes on the blockchain network must process the same transaction, which creates a whole bunch of issues around network scaling and majority control and real-world resource usage (electricity, computer hardware, network infrastructure, cooling, etc).

And beyond that, the nature of society and economics created a community around this unregulated financial market that was filled with... well, exactly the kind of people you'd expect would be most interested in an unregulated financial market - scammers, speculative investors, thieves, illegal bankers, exploitatitive gambling operators, money launderers, and criminals looking to get paid without the government noticing.

The technology can solve some interesting problems around verifying that a particular digital file is unique/original (which can be useful, because it's extremely easy to make copies of digital information) but it creates a long list of other problems as a side effect.

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[-] djsoren19@yiffit.net 19 points 1 month ago

It's one of those things where scientists discovered something interesting and novel, and then a bunch of dumb grifters came in to try and make it their new snake oil.

A very, very long time ago, back when Bitcoin was viewed as a currency instead of an "investment" platform, Bitcoin kinda fulfilled the ideal use case for the blockchain. I think now the general public is just too soured on them for that to ever be the case, unless Elon makes Bitcoin the new currency of the U.S...

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[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 52 points 1 month ago
[-] knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 1 month ago

Isn't he on top of many of these pyramid chains?

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[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago

Open with…

Paste

Ok I’m done for now.

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[-] superkret@feddit.org 34 points 1 month ago

Relationships are like the blockchain.
There's no trusted, central database of all relationships that determines what is or isn't cheating.
That trust is negotiated in each interaction.

Marriages follow the traditional method of a chain of trust. There is a central database that lies with the government or the church, and everyone decides which database they want to trust.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

You must have an interesting social life that every time you hook up, all past relationships immediately contact each other and vote on whether you are a cheater.

[-] Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

His real name is Scott Pilgrim.

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

My advice would be "shut the fuck up and listen".

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 26 points 1 month ago

My advice is for you to wipe my butt clean with your tongue my guy.

[-] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

Ah fuck. I'm in a public stall and just giggle farted.

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[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 24 points 1 month ago

This is bait. It's gotta be.

[-] tee9000@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago
[-] robdor@lemmynsfw.com 23 points 1 month ago

Hah your mom has a cool boyfriend.

[-] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 15 points 1 month ago

If this was Reddit this would be posted on a "CryptobrosLs" communities or something

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

Reddit has had a "Buttcoin" subreddit making fun of Bitcoin since 2011!

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[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

You need to explain that, though they are generally rich, it's not unusual for unheard of princes to occasionally fall on hard times and have their fortunes compensated until they are able to pay a ransom to get a corrupt bank or government to release their vast wealth back to them AND that they are almost always grateful to anyone who assists them in paying that ransom.

Oh wait, sorry, wrong scam.

Wouldn't you find it useful to be able to prove that you paid for something? When you buy an NFT, you're buying just that: the ability to prove that you bought it. And sometimes it even comes with a copy of an image or a spaceship you might just be able to use in a video game or just hold on to until we develop the technology to live in video game spaceships and you sell it for massive profits!

[-] graycube@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Explain how the interplanetary file system will distribute all of human knowledge to the galaxy and without block chain it wouldn't work.

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[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago

This would make a great NFT

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

I NFT'd in your mom's pussy last night

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