Crypto being the solution to the bot problem is the most techbro take I have seen so far. (lemm.ee)

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[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 33 points 1 year ago

if you want authenticity, just get good fucking moderation running, but noooo, this involves paying people (giving money away?? this is not how billionaires are made) and can't be grifted on

also https://xkcd.com/810/

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

New idea for instance application questions.

[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

This is the best xkcd I've seen in ages!

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

With pump[.]fun anyone can. This has made crypto scamming easier, and has no other discernable benefits.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey guys, you should invest in some KolaKoin!

Edit: 3 people are upset this was just a joke and they can't buy KolaKoin 😔

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

You gotta be careful not to joke in a way that's indistinguishable from real shitcoin spam 🙃

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

Everyone knows the real money's in CapaCash! /ref

(Hypnospace Outlaw is top-notch, go play it)

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 9 points 1 year ago

There's always money in the banana -coin!

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago

Classic orange cat move

[-] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 24 points 1 year ago

At this point cryptocurrency has a bad enough reputation that they have to try and ease readers into it.

(insert clown getting dressed meme image here)

It's new digg!
AI is bad (but also sexy and all powerful)
so captchas are hard :(
let's make a real fancy captcha!
With... Zero-Knowledge Proofs :D :D :D :D :D (all non cryptocurrency people flee at this point)
Also like NFTs for products you buy so when you shill them people know you're at least a real person doing so (maybe, kinda, sorta)
So anyway I was thinking if only there was something else as ~~dystopian~~ cool as Sam Altman 様's orb thing and we smeared it across the entire internet

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 21 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, back to key signing parties. But dumber.

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Do I have to put my pgp key on "The Blockchain" to get people to use it?

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago

Dont think you can solve social problems with technical solutions tbh

[-] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 9 points 1 year ago

@Soyweiser @Irelephant you definitely can't solve *anything* with PGP

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

not true! if I want to be really fucking angry, pgp is a great solution to getting that done quickly!

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

It was an attempt to solve a problem at the time (which partially still exists now) it had some use then (as it does now). It just didn't work as something that would be adopted by the general public for various reasons. Stuff like, you need to go to an open source conference.

[-] jagermo@feddit.org 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, not with these tech bros in charge. They have no interest in the truth or they would pay fact checkers and mods.

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Didn't steemit already fail horribly trying to do this?

[-] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly, this does seem like a valid use of the technology behind crypto. Definitely a more beneficial use than just value speculation like we have now.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

how does one become an irate anteater? is it mostly by lacking ants to eat and instead consuming only inaccurate thinkpieces about how the will-never-pay-you-the-bagholder casino "works"?

[+] Dubiousx99@lemmy.world -8 points 1 year ago

That is exactly what I was thinking when I read it, too.

[-] self@awful.systems 17 points 1 year ago

you and your friend really should have spent any time at all looking into who runs worldcoin and how fucking monstrously dystopian it is before rushing into buttcoin of all places to defend the “valid use of the technology behind crypto” (????) you both imagined existed in the OP’s screenshot

[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu -3 points 1 year ago

Cryptography isn't cryptocurrency. It's completely different

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 16 points 1 year ago

an accurate point! and completely irrelevant! congratulations

[-] self@awful.systems 15 points 1 year ago

yeh I know, so calling out zk proofs as “the technology behind crypto” really reads like calling hydrogen gas “the technology behind the Hindenburg”, doesn’t it.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago

I don't think that simile quite lands. Hindenburg worked as expected until its sudden catastrophic demise and hydrogen caused both the function and the failure. Zero knowledge proofs neither make cryptocoins work nor are they the reason why they don't work.

A more apt comparison is something like saying levers are the technology behind this perpetual motion machine.

The design incorporates levers that fail to make the device function, but it's not like levers are useless because of that.

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, have you tried building the gizmo in the picture? Just because similar designs have always been used by scammers and crackpots doesn't mean the tech is bad. Now, if you could invest into my startup...

[+] Mubelotix@jlai.lu -9 points 1 year ago

It could at least solve the Nicole problem. Proof-of-work was invented for exactly this : reducing spam in inboxes

[-] cstross@wandering.shop 17 points 1 year ago

@Mubelotix @techtakes You know what else would solve the Nicole problem? Old-skool USENET style client-side killfiles circa 1990, applied to DMs—your inbox-equivalent.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 14 points 1 year ago

tell me you've never dealt with human-facing network systems without telling me you've never dealt with human facing network systems

[-] jlow@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Question is of spam or proof of work burns the planet faster and I feel like it would be the latter.

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