moved to outerheaven
jordan@suika
i dunno. do you need a permanent receipt? its useful for whatever use case that would be.
WiredFire@wagesj45 @suika the actual technology *is* a great idea. The problem is the party awful implementation (appreciate there’s work to make some chains far less power-hungry) but mostly the crowds using them for pump-and-dump schemes and trashing the wider public image.
NFTs, for example, are a fascinating concept with some, hypothetically, brilliant applications but selling jpgs and tweets are not some of them.
Javier@wagesj45 @wiredfire @suika look again.
Merkel trees are successfully used in BGP monitoring, which allows anyone to detect issues in the non-governed network underlying the whole internet. This helps to avoid or fix both human errors and malicious change injections.