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This list is pretty entertaining thus far I gotta say

https://www.briones.horse/

Dark net markets .

I'm not missing it we just already talked about it, like I said that is incredibly far off, these have to be at the level of being profitable while being easy to replace. Once you start using exabyte storage you need more exabyte storage to back it up since it's only other thing capable of handling the size, no for profit company would put their life on the line for experimental tech when just having loads of harddrives works fine, is well battle tested and has every ounce of support you could ever need.

Experimental and advanced research/project will probably be the only use case in our lifetime.

If you've been involved in crypto for a while this sort of ebb and flow is pretty standard fare. New technology gets released, a frenzy ensues, the frenzy ends, the technology remains and continues to grow on a software level regardless of what's happening on the use case level and stronger use cases emerge. This same thing happened with DAOs and DeFi off the top of my head. The arbitrary value of NFTs exasperated the views that crypto already held in the general publics eye.

https://usa.visa.com/visa-everywhere/blog/bdp/2021/08/18/nfts-mark-a-1629328216374.html

The underlying technology being worked on and the visible use cases being promoted often have little connection in the grand scheme of things because that's what crypto enables you do to. Meet the requirements of the protocol and you can start leveraging it, what you do with it beyond that is completely up to you.

I'm more interested in futuristic use cases and what ifs. Optionally NFT your banking information and profile to move banks, have it setup in a way to limit information shown and a calculated score based upon perceived value, put your account on the market for auction and banks can bid to bring you to their business. Just spit-balling here but I see potential far far far beyond links to digital art.

It's a highly volatile collectables market based on hype so I'm not surprised at all, interested in these high prices was already waning before he made his statements. Like always he is just being trendy and repeating what he saw on twitter.

Yes but people have doing sponsored content for ages now, the big names make bank from their accounts if they wanna.

6.95$ a month? Sign me up! It was going cost me more than that to do it on my own I'm pretty sure.

I'm trying to think of some use cases, I can really only think of two that it might be used for. Space travel and doomsday vaults.

Space travel is a no brainer and these could be used as another form of storage that contains legit everything humanity knows while having the critical stuff run on standard reliable hardware. Incredibly small and lightweight storage in comparison.

Doomsday vaults would be the same idea. Having these as another way of storing information that otherwise we would never keep due to the immense size.

So you could use this technology to track and predict police movements too eh? Hmmmmmmmmm

Technology like this poses a unique challenge because it's impossible to actually stop people from doing it if they want to. It's just a camera pointing outside and software in the end. Obviously more regulations (with real consequences) need to be enforced because of how easily it can be abused by police but that's what we do (or should do?) for all powers we give them.

https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr

https://www.openalpr.com/

How do we stop police from doing what anybody with a little tech experience can do? Even if we did legislate it out but then someone is publicly doing it with no explicit purpose, are the police allowed to use it too? How could you ever stop them?

At the opposite end of the spectrum I often think about modern safer ways of policing and one of those ways is to limit police interactions when possible. Why should I get pulled over for a speeding ticket or busted headlight? Take the data, have it verified by actual legal scholars (rather than empowered thugs) and send me the ticket in the mail. Why should the cop in the car ever be notified this is happening?

Like always, technology poses new risks and benefits that should be explored.

Affording it is one thing but if it breaks then what? These won't be used for profitability for a long-ass time since you'll need multiple just from a disaster recovery standpoint. Down time means no money to pay for your highly expensive storage.

XMPP+OMEMO or OTR is a great alternative, lots of people use it in the DNM realm.

I didn't explain myself very well but yes they do require a phone number. What I meant was you can use any VoIP number with Signal and it's fine, TextNow or any service that lets you retain the number works.