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Ron R's avatar

Two more main problems for crypto:

(4) Crypto "mining" (validation of encryption codes so a processor can access a transaction block) is a MASSIVE energy drain.

Not good in a time of rising energy costs and a worsening climate crisis.

(5) Blockchain may be great for a lot of transactional applications, but when you learn how it actually works, basing a global financial system on it is, in my opinion as a software engineer, sheer insanity! It is massively inefficient and the risk of the entire thing getting corrupted, slowing to a crawl or crashing under heavy usage or malicious intent should be a huge cause for concern.

Not good characteristics for a system you want to use to maintain secure global financial transaction data.

Btw, when Elon wanted out of the deal, why didn't Twitter just say "ok, bye"?

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Peter T's avatar

Meh, not really.

PoW going away, being replaced by PoS. Will be just fine energy-wise.

Re: inefficient, there are several techniques for scale-up. E.g. sharding. No big deal.

The conventional wisdom, at the moment, seems to really really want crypto to fail. And, it may, in some sense(s). Guess we'll see.

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Dianna Jackson's avatar

As a former stockbroker, I never sold a product I didn't understand. And I advised my clients to never buy a product/security/financial instrument they did not understand. It was and still is a very good rule.

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Mike Mc's avatar

“Fiduciary Duty”

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Nate Moore's avatar

Twitter accepted the deal because corporations have one overriding mission: Maximize shareholder value. Shareholders got paid way above a realistic market price.

I don’t think any population of Twitter’s users, vendors, customers, business partners, etc. would have accepted the deal.

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Mike Mc's avatar

Exactly correct. If board had let him out they would be subject to shareholder derivative lawsuits out the wazoo.

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Chris's avatar

Murder-suicide-suicide pact? I have no idea, but I'm so happy that they did.

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knowltok's avatar

The former shareholders are getting paid. I'm not sure even with sound management whether Twitter would have been a good investment at that price.

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