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I'm sure with $4700 more it's possible to get something still better than this new imac pro.. yet with a good cooling system and upgradable at any time.
edit: $2300 INCLUDING 15% taxes
That's incorrect, He was previously in the Ethereum Foundation but left (due to disagreements with Vitalik) long before the DAO was created.
That's a bit cynical to call the token holder gamblers, sure many of them "invested" thinking they would get some return back, but a lot of people were genuily curious in participating in this decentralized democracy experiment that never came to be. Regardless even if these people were 'gamblers' stealing is still stealing and returning stolen money is the right thing to do.
The hard fork had a lot more to do with the fact the overall community didn't thought the system would survive the eventual switch to proof of stake if 15% of all ether was in the hands of malicious actor. There was also the moral matter that something could indeed be done to actually return the stolen money to their original owners, there was consensus to do the fork and so the fork happened.
Btw, you used the word 'pumpers', I really couldn't care less about the price. I hate the whole market thing. Bitcoin/Ether could be $10K or $1 for all I care.
Also, I actually agree 100% that there is no good rationale for adopting Ethereum & blockcahin technology as it is right now as there is so much more to do until it's actually practical.
IPFS is quite popular in the Ethereum comunity (since swarm was delayed), it does need an incentivation layer which they will be implementing soon last I checked. I have no ilusions that all these techs will need to be battletested and might even have flaws, but they are a step in the right direction.
I'm not sure what downturn you've seen since ethereums devcon this year had over 700 participants attending despite being in China, and there is another conference next month this time in europe, so if anything it keeps growing.
The DAO was too much, too soon. you say "they" which I'm not sure who you mean, but please note that ppl behind the DAO are not the same as the Ethereum foundation, consensys, reuters, deloitte, santander, etc.. let's not conflate one group and their mistakes with the entire Ethereum comunity.
As for oracles, they are an interesting problem to solve. Note that not every project would necessary require outside interaction (such as a decentralized DNS), sometimes there are creative solutiosn to do certain things externally (http://www.ethereum-computation-market.com/), and there are ways to verify the validity of the data a oracle is providing, as an example you can watch this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pDUobV8geI
Personally I despise the currency aspect and 'get-rich-quick' types that plague the space. However, not everyone is into blockchain tech for those reasons. I personally I got into Bitcoin and later Ethereum due to what happened to wikileaks.org A few calls from a senator and the domain was taken away and amazon shutdown their servers. I have been fascinated ever since on how to create an internet in which this sort of censorship is nearly impossible, and while Ethereum is not quite there, it's making progress torwards it, specially the upcoming release of its domain system and decentralized storage.
It's not quite there yet, and there is a long way to go, but at least there is some progress.
Organic farming can also use pesticides (and most do), some of these pesticides are as bad or even worse than the ones used in modern agriculture.
And in regards to nutrients https://gmoanswers.com/studies/how-do-gm-crops-impact-soil-h...
You say that like if it's a bad thing, you might want to better inform yourself on GMOs as there are A LOT of myths and misconceptions out there.
The day might come though that internet voting will be widespread. When that day comes I rather have a decentralized solution solution than a centralized one that can be easily manipulated.
Again this is not about perfect pie in the sky solution to all problems, just better digital voting solutions. As I said in the original comment, I don't think it will solve problems that have always been with us, but "It would certainly be nice to vote online yet anonymously, confident that I can see in a public secure ledger that my voted was counted as a intended and that no cheating or voting manipulation (==> ON THE LEDGER LEVEL <==) took place."
Let's not make this an accidental strawman.. My second paragraph is referring to electronic and internet voting solutions vs decentralized/blockchain solutions and NOT traditional in person voting with independent observers, etc..
That said, We're talking about digital voting here (or at least I was) and the comparison is to a digital centralized solution, in which browser history, cookies, server logs, and not to mention the database itself has issues that can compromise the voter and the election.
The key system, wouldn't necessary have to work that way (you could have a derivative id or something like that, the system could automatically assign tokens each election without the need for manual distribution, you can throw away the temporary key, etc..). It's a open problem though, and it's good to bring these critiques up and think about solutions, I woudln't dismiss the whole thing though on the first problem found, it's easy to criticise but most technologies do have issues initially that need to be solved (and that's part of the fun). What's so interesting about decentralization technologies is that they open new possibilities and novel solutions to old problems.