Posts by Zedsquared 9 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Jul 2011
Surely any blockchain project that *isn't* currency is going to have a really hard time persuading people to mine blocks and thus end up with what is basically just an inefficiently implimented centralised database which is open to insider abuse and mistrust by outsiders?
"it's 30x harder/tougher than plastic"
The trouble is that many don't seem to realise that "hard" and "tough" are *not* equivalent. Toughness is the ability to flex and absorb energy without sustaining damage. Hardness is a measure of how much force it takes to scratch something. Leather is very tough, glass is very hard... I wouldn't make a glass saddle or a leather chopping board.
Marketing people have very tough skins which means they can bend these concepts around without fracturing their integrity :)
of the media calling all big display fireworks "Rockets" ... They're "Shells" goddammit! Nobody uses rockets any more on a big public display, too much worry about where the sticks end up.
... Mine's the anorak with the bits of igniter wire in the pocket and burn holes patched with gaffer tape.
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