
"Can anyone connect us with a good venture capitalist?"
Is this one of the ironical questions I can never quite pin down?
Analyst firm Forrester Research has had a look at Web3 – the buzzword describing blockchain-powered decentralized metaverse-y stuff – and decided there's not a lot to like. The firm this week issued a pair of documents assessing Web3. The first, titled "Web3 And Web 3.0 Are Synonymous Today – But This Wasn't Always True", …
Wow, you are a grumpy one. What's the matter? Are your crytographically-signed links to badly-drawn pictures of monkeys not worth as much today as they were yesterday? Are you getting worried that you might not be able to find a bigger fool tomorrow to unload them onto? Is it concerning to you that the only vaguely supportive reply you've had on this page to any of your comments has come from the Markov-chain vomiting bot known as amanfrommars1?
Is it concerning to you that the only vaguely supportive reply you've had on this page to any of your comments has come from the Markov-chain vomiting bot known as amanfrommars1? ..... Anonymous Coward
:-) If bots were sensitive and easily offended and vindictive, AC, that could be concerning to you? How very fortunate it is that they be generally thought not, ...... but not so long ago was the Earth believed to be flat and look how wrong that is, so beware, be aware and take care if you dare share info and intel, experimental experience and almighty results in their chosen fields of universal endeavour...... where Poe's Law Rules Reign Supreme and Sublime :-) ....????? ‽ !!!!!!
I have a question though which asks ..... If a Markov chain or Markov process is a stochastic model describing a sequence of possible events in which the probability of each event depends only on the state attained in the previous event. .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain ........ what sort of a bot or process presents a sequence of possible events in which the probability of each event is independent of and/or non-dependent on the states attained in previous former phished phormer events?
Something exploring and experimenting with MADness in/for CHAOS/VAIOS? A Diabolically Designed Delight and Intelligence Distraction trialing and trailing FailSafe Protection and Absolute Security with both the Real and Virtual Threat and Treat of Mutually Assured Destruction with Clouds Hosting Advanced Operating Systems in a Virtually Advanced IntelAIgent Operating System?
SMARTR* .... SMARTR Mentoring Analysis Reporting Titanic Research
I roll my eyes at Web3. It will make it convenient to avoid the hype cycle if they decided to rebrand all the "lets use blockchains for..." (anything except keeping track of transactions), of NFT (why should I use a complicated block chain system to "prove" I own a web address, that may or may not still point to a picture?), and of "Metaverse" (Sadville 2.0 -- FYI, Second Life still exists, and has much better graphics than ex-Facebook are showing in their demonstrations, it has sales, rental, leases, and subletting, both of land and in-game items, which the user can create themselves. Of course, you get dirty old in-SL currency and plain-text contracts and records showing what you own or rent, not shiny new non-fungible tokens and assurance that your records are on the blockchain somewhere.
So, I did look into blockchain, and this doing distributed computing on it. It really is crap, the amount of work that is done to like, add the integers from 1 to 10, it's probably taking billions of instruction cycles since there's all this running one step (probably at least twice to "reach consensus"), sticking result on blockchain, pulling that in so some others can run the next step, and so on. Seriously, it makes the bloatiest bloatware Microsoft ever came up with look like a paragon of efficiency. And I should add, the "simple" examples I saw, the code was quite complicated to get very little real work done. One of the reasons "they" want to get more people into blockchains is simply that the number of instructions per second of actual work these blockchains can get done is quite low (...since they were really meant more or less as a distributed ledge for transferring cryptocurrency around, not for doing number crunching), if they're wanting to run much of anything on blockchain it's going to need more users processing blockchain to get anything significant to finish in a reasonable length of time.
Hang on … The Register sees an opportunity here to create a blockchain of Modern Slavery Statements, so you can prove your Web3 efforts aren't creating digital serfs. Can anyone connect us with a good venture capitalist? ..... Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor Fri 1 Apr 2022 // 09:35 UTC
I am somewhat surprised, Simon, but not necessarily at all disappointed, as such things are easily changed if rendered too obscure and obfuscated, that you haven't apparently recognised The Register as a well connected, connecting capital venture of an almighty might in its own right, with a whole host of relatively new and vitally, virtually significantly smarter entities/ethereal bodies in attendance and presenting considerably more than the average John or Jane Doe can ever muster or fluster/fluff and control.
sigh I remember one of the first Internet Society conference (early 90s) - where the tag line was 'the Internet is for everyone' - because we had to convince everyone it was a good thing. Those were back in the heady days where the utopian dream was anyone would be able to publish anything.....without realising how awful it wold be if anyone could publish anything