RadioShack – Bringing Cryptocurrency to the Mainstream (opens in new tab)

I’m not sure what it is, it might be as high as 99-1. But the 1 is pretty incredible. Look at fxhash on Tezos, it’s created something truly incredible in generative art.

I work in crypto since a little while, and have following the tech since 2014 or so.

I’m still really skeptical of that trash fire going anywhere. Including my day job.

I can only thing of one application, and it still have to deliver:

Providing mesh network of wifi, LoRA or 5g where the node are administered by individuals.

The nodes are mining a proof of coverage. And effectively being payed to deliver a service ( providing wifi/LoRA/5g coverage )

The nodes cannot trust each other, and having a decentralized ledger help them split the bill and compensate the nodes for their work.

In my view it would provide a “last miles delivery of coverage”

I have a few project in mind that I won’t mention here. The crypto they are using is not subject to much speculation.

That my favorite use of that tech stack. ( since the decentralized land ledger projects seems to not go anywhere )

Kind of baffled that nobody has mentioned this yet, but:

Buying illegal drugs online

(I am hugely sceptical on most things crypto) generally speaking the view of a rich, stable country might make you blind to some real use cases because you just don't have them. But for people in less privileged countries having a permissionless system of digital dollars is actually extremely useful. Also my pet theory is that Bitcoin MIGHT suck money out of the property market and make home ownership more affordable.

Decentralized Identity for individuals and devices.

I've found the images here to be a good quick and dirty summary: https://www.gsma.com/identity/decentralised-identity

there isn't one. but by the time people realise that a few unscrupulous people will have made a ton of - fiat - money out of the gullible masses.

NFTs have proven incredible for indie digital artists across the world, but particularly for artists from the third world where making a living off them is a bit easier. There’s a huge honest indie art movement on the Tezos NFT space.

Good places to look around in: Fxhash (amazing generative art market that creates uniques through interaction between the code and the blockchain) Hic Et Nunc (now multiple sites, fully decentralised art market) OBJKT (sort of a better UI for Tezos NFTs, same stuff as in Hic).

The space is in dire need of regulation. Sociopaths go for the lowest level of effort with the maximum level of rewards. Right now making a dumb crypto token and shilling it is likely the easiest immoral way to make money in this world.

That was the first one I thought of as well.

I had such a hard time deciding whether to vouch this comment. But if the knowyourmeme page is on topic, then surely linking to this video (which that page links to) is also on topic.

It's also interesting that such an influential brand is now owned by a random rich person. I never thought that my childhood hideout would become a punchline. The only way to make it better would be to add a little intro to the video like "At RadioShack, garages are important to us. That's why we've decided to invest in 47 new lambos that we bought with our RADIO tokens..."

What a sad ending for the only electronics shop in town. My friend and I used to hang out there after school and try to build logic gates and simple counters.

Uno reverse card: Tai Lopez uses the funds from this to rebuild electronics shops across the world, and becomes a household hero for nerds everywhere. Since this outcome is so weird, that outcome suddenly seems not-impossible.

Ditto MG.