You are seriously dodging the conversation here, but I'll try one more time, just to make this clear:
* First: Imagine my answer, for the moment, is "no." So what? Disrupting drug prohibition is already not nothing.
* Second: Yeah, you whoosed. I didn't say that blockchain tech had advanced the internet (like porn has), but that drug commerce has advanced blockchain tech. See? In both cases, the resulting boost isn't limited to porn or drugs.
> What I asked is for you to provide examples how blockchain has advanced the internet the same way porn has.
I didn't make that claim. I don't think that it's clear that blockchain tech is even cognizable as part of what we today call "the internet." So I'm not making the statement you're asking me to defend.
What I am saying is that it's not reasonable to conclude "Well, it doesn't do anything but facilitate drug commerce" any more than you can sensibly conclude, about the early days of the internet, "It doesn't do anything other than facilitate porn."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16788447
You are seriously dodging the conversation here, but I'll try one more time, just to make this clear:
* First: Imagine my answer, for the moment, is "no." So what? Disrupting drug prohibition is already not nothing.
* Second: Yeah, you whoosed. I didn't say that blockchain tech had advanced the internet (like porn has), but that drug commerce has advanced blockchain tech. See? In both cases, the resulting boost isn't limited to porn or drugs.
> What I asked is for you to provide examples how blockchain has advanced the internet the same way porn has.
I didn't make that claim. I don't think that it's clear that blockchain tech is even cognizable as part of what we today call "the internet." So I'm not making the statement you're asking me to defend.
What I am saying is that it's not reasonable to conclude "Well, it doesn't do anything but facilitate drug commerce" any more than you can sensibly conclude, about the early days of the internet, "It doesn't do anything other than facilitate porn."
Get it?