Six main disadvantages of Bitcoin and the blockchain.
For me personally, the most disadvantageous are the gigabyte sizes of the various blockchains one needs to download and sync when trying to participate as a node.
The most impressive Ðapp I have seen so far (found via stateofthedapps.com) is leeroy.io, a short message service using Ethereum for signing up, posting, following etc. (micropayments for interactions, in some way).
Makes a lot of sense if you think about how incentives could change because there is a perceptible cost involved. Then again, of course, it’s all about the money. Anyway, we will mainly see gambling and betting Ðapps in the long run… betcha.
While I was still musing about the past and future of web publishing, some other folks implemented a whole new universe around the blockchain…
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Smart Contracts in Ethereum
- Build your first Smart Contract
- Getting Up to Speed on Ethereum
- Building a ÐApp with Truffle
- Full-Stack Hello World Voting Ethereum Dapp Tutorial
Better than 8.8.8.8: opennic.org
Half-full or half-empty? (Completely full, of course.)
“The world’s getting better all the time“ vs “The Pessimist’s Guide to 2028”.
Artwork Personalization at Netflix.
(…) over a 100 million different products with one for each of our members with personalized recommendations and personalized visuals.
C3W Unvereinbarkeitserklärung.
Der Chaos Computer Club Wien erklärt das Vertreten von Rassismus und die Verharmlosung der historischen sowie aktuellen rechten Gewalt für unvereinbar mit einer Mitgliedschaft.
A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.
International Church of Cannabis in Denver, Colorado.
Science Friction – Finally, a documentary about scientists who get misrepresented by the media.
Those TV documentaries you see, and the science experts they feature? Did you know that producers often edit them out of context, and twist their words, to make it seem like they promoted some pop sensationalism instead of the real facts?
Algorithmenethik.
Eine Polemik: Wie man mit einem würfelnden Schimpansen Terroristen fängt – Überlegungen zu den Zwischenergebnissen der Gesichtserkennungs-Pilotstudie am Südkreuz.
Relevant: The Discourse, a bi-weekly newsletter about the collision of tech, media, and politics.