Popular news aggregation and discussion website Reddit has changed its terms of service, allowing users to earn, purchase or sell currencies and items that can be cryptographically verified. The change in terms also explicitly outlined a clear separation in the definition of non-tokenized Web 2 virtual goods and tokenized Web 3 virtual goods, with a member of the Reddit product team disclosing plans to sunset the former.

  • Tar_alcaran@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Well, things like “How do we make sure the person who claims to own this house actually owns this house” is definitely a real problem. But we’ve already solved that problem in another way. And we’ve spent hundreds of years ironing out all the little kinks in the system.

    And the problem with blockchain (and every other ‘disruptive’ technology) is that it goes “Nah, we’re going to throw all those unneeded things out”. That then goes massively wrong, because, surprise, the system isn’t complex for no reason.