You have to be driven and use all the free resources you can because there is some kid out there who is and will get the job.
You want to break in, learn mobile programming. Projects and demands still allow newbies off the street to make it. The web is easy but really confusing if you haven't paid attention the past decade. Mobile apps always have something new to fiddle with. Good luck.
They just shut down the world for a year and could already do everything in your list without crypto. Not sure what fear your trying spill but crypto can unlock trillions of dollars and shift power back to people who can't control the current inflation. Look at Monero or ARRR for privacy if you need that thing. What are you buying that is so private anyway, most needs for privacy is when it's for something nefarious.
The fact people are jumping through the hoops and hoopla now show that it's possible. Could you imagine if we still used dial up to access the Internet, some people actually do so tech being difficult is a given for first generation offerings.
Those changes you speak of in the real world should be recorded and would be the purpose of blockchain to have those errors included. Then you have the real history, not what someone else decided to erase and replace with what they now believe to be accurate.
Then the author should only be making the claim against consensus for validation. Why would a private org need a public consensus, that is obvious. Take a look at Amazon QLDB, enterprises can make use of blockchains because sql doesn't connect the dots as well. Developers have to write the code that creates the connections between data. Blockchain has dots that are already connected in a sense, that's how it already is. Now it's more than a log, it is a real representation, because of the age, kind of like domain names. Their value increases over time though they are the same thing and only exist digitally or ina database.
The author makes no mention of immutability or the contrast between a sql database. The author misses the point for which a blockchain db is more useful for recording a record of history and the lineage of any subsequent transactions or transfers. I never even saw a real argument as to why enterprises shouldn't use it.
Furthermore the analogy with the birth certificate is misleading. The blockchain doesn't determine your dob, the person who enters it does, and now it can't be altered later and if it does there's a record of it.
Blockchain is really just an ultra logging mechanism that's already setup where you would have to design that setup yourself in sql. Throw in immutability and voila you have something that is designed to be more dependable and trustworthy.
Sounds like you were five years too early. And prepandemic I would agree with you. Today I can't.
I also said "an industrial revolution" and not "The Industrial Revolution". But I'm glad you could no longer argue the validity of crypto currencies and the implications of mass adoption and use.
You don't work in finance, blockchain can solve a lot just look at Amazon QLDB, looks like it can solve quite a bit. And now you just sound jealous and very regretful.
Once again you're using one coin to represent the entire industry. You don't understand the technology and how it will penetrate every sector of society. Bitcoin is the KittyHawk of aviation. Yah no one flies the original plane anymore but it started an industrial revolution. And you are very much wrong on your assumptions on our current international money moving system. The benefits will be tremendous and is very much in play, go ask the central banks of France or Japan. You're missing out on what is happening right in front of your eyes.
Defend crypto? Dude the blockchain database is what's going to change things. The coins aren't the technological revolution happening. The storage of information and its reliability is what is important here. You're just mad because it's replacing your old ways which you cannot defend.
Malls were the original Search Engine for local shopping. And in 2020 it has become apparent that people do not want to live online entirely for the rest of their lives and especially around Christmas a lot of Americans want to go to the mall to shop with other people because it's funner than sitting at home clicking on crappy websites.
"research suggests similarities between the lax way that home loans were signed in the run-up to the last crisis and the underwriting of many retail mortgages"
And those home loans were allowed because Glass-Steagall was removed, is it wrong to think that although short selling has been around it has been exacerbated by the removal of Glass-Stegall into things like people's homes/livelihood and not just stocks?
Who do you cheer for then, because ain't no mom and pop shop in existence anymore. The mall was the greatest counter to things like Walmart where a single company was profiting and not a conglomerate of businesses. The banks ruined main street not people trying to find and make the best place to sell things.
Articles like this glorifying failure and those who profit from it, is exactly why the Glass-Steagall Act needs to come back so people aren't sitting around betting on other people's failures. I hope they lose all their money.
I could see a small company needing a quick and cheap way to make a portal. These are things wordpress should perhaps focus more on and move away from the blog being central, but still make it available.