cryptocurrencies vs smartcontracts dapps and oracles
if you are betting on cryptocurrencies where the only function is to send them fast to other addresses you should reconsider your investing strategies. because you are currently betting on a solution with no problem to solve. there is nothing wrong with the current fiat system, you can pay anywhere instantly with almost no fees with debit and credit cards. and the foreign exchange market will probably never use a cryptocurrency, maybe they will use blockchain but it will still be fiat based. also the current fiat system is so heavily rooted in our civilization it's hard too replace
smart contracts, dapps and oracles, on the other hand, will maybe have huge adoption rate in a year or two. these things create value because they can replace jobs or make someone's jobs more efficient. just look how fast email has replaced most of the postal services. it was so successfully adopted because it saved a lot of money. smartcontracts can replace a lot of resource and labor heavy processes. once they are proven to work we will see fast adoption.
other examples of new tech that had fast and huge adoption: Netflix replaced DVD/VHS rentals, they could do it way cheaper because there was no physical logistics problem and they needed a fraction of the employees needed for a company like blockbuster.
Lincoln Gonzalez
Is this new LINK shilling strategy? Nobody needs or wants dapps and oracles.
Cooper Martin
Aeternity? Sure. ChainLink? Nope.
Luis Thompson
And why is that?
Asher Gonzalez
memory cards replaced kodak film roles. because again they were cheaper and could be used again. same way ipod's/mp3's/phone's replaced cd's.
Grayson Brown
this is not link shill, because i wouldn't invest into something that doesn't have an mvp
Austin Perez
Curious to know what you’re holding OP, seems like you’d be into iExec (RLC) ...
Jose Hill
I would say decentralization is a huge value for currencies. It's not about government adoption, it's about ignoring the government.
Lucas Howard
Most valuable player?
Oliver Brooks
what was the name of the new chainlink competitor with nodes that can consume all APIs instead of a single one?
Witnet kills the chainlink. Also has its own blockchain not relying on the dinosaur Ethereum.
Austin Martinez
MInimal viable product
Jeremiah Cooper
Did somebody say SHILL?
Landon Williams
Will witnet have a main net release with nodes already in operation with companies before ChainLink?
Noah Cox
ChainLink has offchain voting, check the whitepaper.
Connor Martinez
Are you a hippie communist? if you already made it, you realize the current system is in your favor. 50%+ Labor tax but only 1-2% capital tax. So every wagecuck pays for your healthcare and infrastructure, while you are living off that sweet interest on your Index funds.
Carson Perez
I fully agree user. Not only is it heavily rooted and already perfectly functional, but governments/central banks would never allow a alternative monetary system to coexist with the fiat system.
Connor Mitchell
It's funny how most of the convo centers on muh coin will be used to pay for coffee, muh transaction rate, ....it's all hot air, unless of course it's a FedCoin with backdoors and a unique personal identifier tied to it lol
Brandon Price
Smart contracts are only good for ponzis
Juan Martinez
This is the max ethereum is ever gonna be, prepare for the crash when they switch to POS. I wouldn't hold to much of it unless you bought at under 100$.
Nathaniel Collins
fuck me you're dumb. have you ever travelled outside of whatever shithole country you live in?
I'm invested in ETH and LINK how else do I capitalize on smart contracts?
Jose Hernandez
What the fuck does MVP mean? Oh so because they haven't launched mainnet yet but you can set up a node and run API data feed through it? I'm lost at your reasoning desu can you explain?
Jordan Howard
Isn't multisig a smart contract. Fuck me I know nothing. Bcash is capable of smart contracts but BTC isn't what the fuck. So much mis info.
Brandon Bell
Didn’r Realize link already had mvp
Chase Wood
Bcash also isn’t usable for SmartContracts yet. Maybe in 2019. But currently only see it as a attempt to gain some traction again with vage promises
William Cook
Unless they cause inflation or bet on countries and their money going down.
Parker Diaz
Yeah so what. Inflation is only like 2-3% if your index funds don’t make you 10-20% a year you are fucking retarded
Nathan Scott
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Like anybody would believe this spelling challenged retard DYOR
Lucas Reed
Sure, there has never been more inflation than that in history.
Thomas Miller
You've got it backwards. Dapps are the ones with no value right now (with most of it being propped up by speculation), while a decentralized currency is the only major thing of value.
You have to ask yourself, why are decentralized apps necessary? There's a lot of tradeoffs that need to be made in order to get a decentralized application to be functional. Currently that's a huge amount of performance and energy loss. There's not too many use cases where you'd want to make those sacrifices.
The only real major use of decentralization so far is money. And money that's free from a central authority is something that's been wanted for hundreds of years, but impossible to achieve until Bitcoin.
Bitcoin allows one to be autonomous, not rely on banks, not risk having funds frozen, it's pseudo anonymous, not-debt backed, cannot be printed/hyper-inflated, allow transfers anywhere in the world without extra infrastructure, has an immutable ledger, and is free from a central authority.
The whole cryptocurrency space pretty much revolves around Bitcoin because so far that's been the only real thing of value. Bitcoin has the potential to have a $10T market on it's own. Dapps on the other hand are fairly speculatory, but even if a substantial ecosystem were to appear, would it even be worth $500B?.
Also, there's a lot of reasons why dapps on a secondary layer like Lightning Network (rather than the primary layer) is a better solution overall.
Kayden Powell
delusional corecuck detected. why would any government allow to let their most powerful weapon of influence be taken away.
Grayson Gomez
Man Bitcoin Segwit are such fucking retards aren't they?
Fuck them
Jacob Bell
its self explanatory if you have ever tried to move any amount of money across borders you fucking retard.
Kevin Roberts
ALREady done this many times with no problem
Christopher Price
As if the central bank monetary system isn't the biggest problem we have as a civilisation?
Leo Parker
Somebody didn’t read the whitepaper. Chainlink is blockchain agnostic. Somebody also didn’t check out witnet’s roadmap. Testnet isn’t happening untill 2019 and tokens won’t even be released untill mainnet releases even later than that. Good luck.
Isaiah Price
The MT. Gox situation will send everyone to NANO. Better buy before the real flippening.
Austin Lewis
Nobody wants applications that lack centralised control and failure points? Kek, sure user.
Christian Smith
You get it. SmartContracts are like hiring a lawyer/third party to oversee and control the excecution of a contract/transaction. But with SmartContracts you can do this with a fraction of the costs
Kevin Green
Also LINK 1000$ EOY
Jason Cruz
I just started to learn solidity and programming dApps. Am I gonna make it?
Jose Hernandez
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Luis Edwards
great post, but biz just wants to shill their shitcoin bags and lie to newfags
Jace Rodriguez
Psssst go for the coin that’s integrating smart contracts and quantum resistant signatures without the need for a fork
Hint: starts with a C and is very, very cheap right now
Lincoln Rodriguez
privacy currencies are still smart and currencies until international payment services get unfucked