Comment by scotu

4 years ago

I had the same thought. Imagine listing all blockchains in tiny icons you scroll sideways. I suppose that can be done a lot better, but still, who decides which blockchains are included and which are not?

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herlitzj  4 years ago

Precisely. Or what if you're some random grandma that has a wallet (since we're living in a make believe world where this is easy to create). Imagine you've forgotten which blockchain your wallet is on. Will there be a search box to find my wallet in this mess of combinatorics that is a login page?

  • MBCook  4 years ago

    I mined a teeny tiny bit of Dogecoin years ago. One of the times it spiked in price, I decided to convert my teeny tiny bit into Etherium. So I used a wallet on a cryptocurrency trading site.

    Do you know what site that was? I don’t. I can’t remember. I think the password may be in my password manager, but I’m not sure. I’d have to go digging.

    But I am SURE I’ll remember which of the 1200 common block chains I use for my credentials.

MBCook  4 years ago

Because that’s insane. Normal users couldn’t deal with that. Highly technical users can’t deal with that. It’s too much of a pain in the ass.

The solution is that there should only be one or two chains that everyone uses. Then there’s only one or two little icons you need.

The people who run the trains could make sure they keep running by having tens of thousands of computers. Of course that cost money. Luckily they get money out of the block chain because they can spend coins.

Of course users don’t really like buying things. Maybe it wouldn’t be too hard to put an ad or two in there to pay for things.

The easiest thing to get users on board is to use brands they trust. No normal person is going to trust everything they have two the Kakarot blockchain with an anime superhero for a logo.

Do you know who people trust? Facebook and Google. If they were to…

Oops. I invented today. Only with much more energy use.