I don't how a car works but I can think of plenty of ways a car can be useful.
This is the mindset of this post.
The simplest way I can explain what you can do with Blockchain technology is this:
"With Blockchain you can create trust between two or more parties over the internet without a third party."
Now, the first thing that people thought of to do with this amazing technology was to create a currency.
They named it Bitcoin.
For the first time in history, it was now possible to send a currency over the internet to anybody in the world without a third party (most likely a bank). Faster and cheaper than ever before and all trusted by Blockchain technology.
It was awesome.
But the idea of trust over distance has already far surpassed a currency.
The Steem blockchain for instance, where I am writing these words right now, creates that same trust between all of us without a third party.
When you read this post, you know it's me that wrote it. Yet there is no third party (like Facebook or Youtube) to guarantee that this is true.
The blockchain provides this trust and nobody owns it.
This is literary mind-blowing stuff.
Blockchain Technology will eliminate so many third parties and it's only just beginning.
I talk about it more in my vlog.
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World is spoilt with many middle man acting on it, increased level of corruption as the ppl on power tends to award project or ownership to these middle man who is willing to take extra care on the ppl who is on power..
Blockchain interestingly being adopted on government level, amidst the conundrum that would be faced by government on act of adoption.. the future for ppl upon government adoption on full is mind blowing..
just think about voting which is un-tamperable, which eliminates middle men counting votes which can be very questionable on act of trust, this unleashed true party comes to power to do only good things to ppl, thinking they cant mess around for next election since voting system is running on blockchain.. :) this is still shallow on blockchain application, but enough to do massive betterment for the society overall.. good thoughtful post.. thanks @exyle
You at least seem to be spending a decent amount of time discussing things that aren't JUST "how can i play this situation to get rich", which is good to see. I get extremely frustrated seeing the amount of total processing power and intelligence, being "Invested" in "NOTHING MORE" than trying to take an amazing technology, and to use it to pull out as much profit as can be taken, from people with less understanding.
If there was any invention not originally designed to foment the generation of massive profits for some, one would think it would be the blockchain,
but in reality, so far, DAMN, trillions of processing cycles an hour are being spent on "NOTHING".
As far as i can tell in regards to blockchain, at present, it is the worlds MOST EXPENSIVE and ENERGY WASTEFUL accounting ledger in HUMAN HISTORY.
The blockchain tech IS great, but i can't wait until we begin to get to a point when this tech actually makes a DIFFERENCE, instead of sucking up millions of hours of genius a day, seeing people try to play other people.
I'm a fan of it from what i know. Biggest problem right now is the fact that i absolutely CANNOT create an incredibly high quality overall mountain of content, and THEN bring people who are of the right mind type, to spend time going through it, voting for what they really like.
If i do that, i get NOTHING. [i'm not here for the money, but it seems still ridiculously imbalanced, and i see shit tons of votes being put up for videos, when there's no way that the voters could have even watched more than moments of the video]
I would LOVE to talk about what it is that you "Know" and "Think" of the entire cryptosystem and cryptocrazy in general. I'm infinitely more ignorant than you, but i think conversations between disparate viewpoints can really bring up the most important stuff.
Thanks for responding. Is there a way to get notifications for replies? I always have to go back and scroll through "replies".
ALX!