This is a place for a generic open protocol. To have a real internet of things we need some kind of DNS but for objects.
Not sure if you've seen but Apple opened the Find-My network to other vendors: https://www.apple.com/ee/newsroom/2021/04/apples-find-my-net...
Apple's marketing must train in the Matrix for how good they are at dodging bullets...
I'm able to see both sides. We all like free things, but free things cost some body some thing some where. If the vendor/maker of a thing needs to pay a license to make it look free to the consumer, that doesn't seem egregious to me. After all, they'll just roll that into the price of the product.
The entire thing works so well precisely because there are so many Apple devices in the wild, and Apple is looking to capitalize on that.
But think about it, how am I wrong? We set these companies up, by law, to put profit first, then hope they also do the right thing.
Those are misaligned incentives at the very least.
If they don't provide the network: what value do the tags, you bought with money, provide?
If you buy from 3rd party and 3rd party doesn’t pay Apple, why should Apple provide the network?
Are there third party tracking device manufacturers with free access to these systems?
Are you talking about stolen or bootleg goods?
The latter is a much more complicated topic, for sure.
What more information do you need?
My first response to the first version of that loaded question: "_I wasn't saying they should_..."
You respond with: "If Company A builds a product/service, why should Company B be expected to utilize Company A's work without compensation?"
Am I to believe you're being genuine here? Should I really repeat myself again, in text, to save you a scroll up?
I didn't say that. I never implied that. I stated the exact opposite.
Why are you asking me to rationalize and explain a stance I've never taken, and don't have?
Only charged money for big transfers and the high frequency traders.
Dunno why it stopped. Seemed sensible to reward hodlers and incentivize use for microtransactions. Ultimately, liquidity comes from being able to trade a big thing easily for lots of small things.
Miners used to include zero-fee transactions in blocks when there was space available. Nowadays, most blocks are full or nearly so, so miners have a financial interest in mining transactions with the highest fee-per-byte first and ignoring anything which has a low or zero fee attached.
There was never any special handling for "infrequent" transfers.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Miner_fees#Priority_transactions
Maybe I got it wrong: I thought it meant how long the coins have been sitting around, but maybe it means how long the transaction has been sitting unmined to make sure no transaction is left behind?
But it seems I'm on the right track, in that input_age was a measure of how many confirmations, which suggests it's about how long it's been since the last time they were moved:
note1 here: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/95407/what-were-...
An open protocol would mean trackers could be built right into things, like a keychain flashlight with a tracker.
You also wouldn't need a phone to pick them up, an ESP32 could handle the relaying to WiFi, so something like a school's lost and found could have a fixed base station for $5.
Even better, devices could relay microscopic amounts of data through nearby nodes. It would be like the Things Network, but at a quarter of the cost and with zero new hardware to get started.
no.
The problem with blockchain-based applications right now is that the blockchain is not scalable in its write-access, so the extent to which such applications can be updated is quite limited.
Edit: spelling
Of course, regulation is a bad word for a good number of the electorate so this will never happen.
What are other examples where specific protocols (open or not) are mandated by regulation ?
The number of RFCs that are required for basic things like email, storage, security etc are essential standards primarily because USG required contractors and vendors to adhere to those standards.