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  • Yep, I knew you would show up.

    You have obviously never sold a car or a house in a country where you have to trust that the cash the buyer is giving you is not counterfeit, or if using a bank transfer, that they will actually make the transfer once you signed away your ownership. You’re privileged to be able to trust your fellow american (I guess you’re from the US) and your legal system.

    You can just use an ownership database maintained by the country

    The blockchain would be the ownership database maintained by the country. The key is the atomic exchange of money for ownership. In case you don’t know what I mean by “atomic”, I mean that the two operations cannot be done separately: either the ownership and the money are both transferred, or none are. Which solves the problem that you apparently don’t have but many others less privileged do.


  • I have an example but it’s not necessarily the best and most practical solution, it’s just one very good solution to a problem that not everyone experiences, so it’s generally shot down as unnecessary.

    In countries where buying a car or house involves an asynchronous exchange of money and keys or signing of documents, with all the trust issues involved, having an NFT represent ownership (which requires recognition and acceptance by the state) is a perfect use case, where you transfer ownership and receive payment in one atomic operation.



  • jungle@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldGithub is having some issues
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    10 months ago

    I've recently changed jobs and my new company uses GitHub for everything, including "projects", its wannabe kanban boards, and I'm truly appalled at how bad they are. They've been out for many years, yet they lack the most basic features, like a decent API, or hierarchical relationships between tickets, or a simple integration between the board and the ticket status… Like what are they thinking!?

    Yeah, GitHub has some issues alright.