• beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
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    You are, but you’re not getting it.

    Probs get down votes, but look up data latte, you can put your data on the blockchain (anonymized) and get paid if somebody buys it, eg for market research.

    Which essentially is what Google does. Sells your data to the market

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        Until the blockchain bro actually provides evidence that their system works, I would approach it with skepticism generally reserved for people with long trench coats beckoning you into dark alleys.

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            Participate in surveys that actually matter.

            Seems like yet another survey rewards site except maybe with blockchain and dollars

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            We leverage Ai and blockchain technology to guarantee user privacy, anonymity, and trust.

            Okay, yeah, this is genuinely insane. Blockchain doesn’t mean anything except for “append-only distributed database” and “AI” in anything less than a technical context is also meaningless.

            Own Your Data with NFTs: Secure, immutable, and blockchain-certified. No fine print, just you in control.

            And we already know how much of a joke NFTs are. They are digital receipts at best. If I can download somebody’s monkey picture and own it more than they do, then saying your data is protected by one is dishonest.

            In 2022, “130 NFTs were claimed, and 59 NFTs were minted.” A year later, they’re up to 77. That’s 18 mints in 365 days.

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              And we already know how much of a joke NFTs are. They are digital receipts at best.

              Have a longer think on that. Interoperability with receipts and a programming language. Sounds like it could go somewhere.

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                I think you’ll have to be creative and tell me what they solve that other, more efficient, existing things don’t.

                I’ve been quite creative here by diagnosing myriad issues with this system. It’s over engineered, it uses too many buzzwords, It’s woefully under adopted, it won’t ever replace an existing system, etc.

                Regarding NFTs, you’re going to have to be the one to convince me they have any value, as calling them glorified digital receipts is maybe a bit too kind.

                https://youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9gi

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      If your data is on a public blockchain, why wouldn’t I just wait for someone else to give me your password to it? Then I don’t have to pay you, do I?

      And why do you think that sacrificing your dignity for a dollar or two will stop the giant corporations from simply consuming your data the normal way, or simply sharing it amongst themselves?

      One of the dumbest things I’ve seen cryptocurrency advocates do is insist you have some extra right to your data when you put it on somebody else’s computer in read-only format.

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        The pure data isn’t sitting on the blockchain itself, but in a ipfs or something similar. But the contracts and tokens allow you to automate it and own it/give out access to it to a certain extent.

        Its a small project, but I like the idea, could be something.

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          So… It’s a glorified password protected zip file inside a folder on a website?

          Doesn’t sound like the contracts and tokens are necessary.

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            You can go pretty far with that analogy. A docker container is just a glorified zip folder in a kubernetes cluster. Yes sure you get some of its functionality, but you’re missing quite a bit.