Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
What’s a fundamental non-currency infrastructure affordance of blockchains that can’t be delivered with web2 or older stacks easily? A near-example is NFTs bought on one site showing up on another, which you can’t do in web2 (closest is walled garden/game badges). Things like this but more infrastructurey in flavor, and neither finance related, nor fun and games. Maybe like DeFi for nonFi things?
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wz
@wz
- trusted timestamping (aka being able to prove you knew/held X earlier/at specific time), usable eg for bets/patents/certificate expiration - public/private voting (assuming the voter pool is set up in advance; the pool part is not yet ready for nation-scale voting) - permissionless name registration (not just vanity-like but also seeds for other p2p networks etc) - almost here: permissionless publishing/web2 hosting (storj/filecoin provide much better perf and guarantees vs ipfs)
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