On: Bitcoin has little shot at ever being a major glob...

[ghostcluster]

> people are working on blockchain things all over the place, relatively quietly in the background

"Kodak shares have more than tripled since company announced 'KodakCoin'"

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/10/kodak-shares-have-more-than-...

This is not the future I signed up for..

[em3rgent0rdr → ghostcluster]

But seriously there is great potential in a blockchain system that tracks intellectual property ownership in a distributed fashion.

[easytiger → em3rgent0rdr]

All this can be done better as a non distributed system.

[Cthulhu_ → easytiger]

I think what might be happening here is that the traditional software development practices and habits would get on that, turning it into a project costing millions, taking years, and not doing what it promised.

[stuntkite → em3rgent0rdr]

Also verifying image authenticity in a world quickly hurtling past a the uncanny valley with turn key neural nets to fake just about any media at no cost and with no special skills.

[ourmandave → ghostcluster]

I think someone is doing a pump and dump at Kodak.

At CES they also came out with the Kodak Kashminer. The terms are so hilariously bad it can't be real.

https://twitter.com/chrisbhoffman/status/950861459302445056