In a Thursday speech, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Paul S. Atkins announced “Project Crypto,” an initiative to modernize the country’s securities rules and regulations to move financial markets on-chain.
“Under my leadership, the SEC will not stand idly by and watch innovations develop overseas while our capital markets remain stagnant,” he said at an America First Policy Institute event in Washington D.C. His plan includes measures to reshore crypto businesses that have left the country and to ensure that “archaic rules and regulations do not smother innovation and entrepreneurship in America.”
So I’m hearing that perhaps the idea I talked about in my example didn’t sound cool to you. But it was cool to a lot of people, and your opinion doesn’t speak for everyone. And it does work, like today.
So were pogs
So you really think the ability to trade digital keys is useless? That’s honestly weird.
I mean there are so many instances of people actively using digital keys right now, so clearly that part of the functionality has value. Surely there are situations where one might want to sell access to something, and the ability to transfer a digital key with a single transaction would be useful.
I think you’re being overly dismissive based on preconceived notions.
When the keys cost several hundred dollars to generate? I’d say the price vastly outstrips the reward.
Bailey: “Cryptocurrency is useful.”
Moot: “Oh, so you think cryptography is useless?!”
That’s fine. I don’t really value your opinion.
It does not necessarily have to cost that much… But even if it did, the key to my Honda cost a couple hundred dollars to copy, so that’s not really different.
I don’t expect to change your mind, but it seems worth pointing out that the things you’re saying are pretty dumb.
And yet that’s the selling point behind proof-of-work cryptocurrency models. The whole reason they have value is the raw material cost to fabricate a new key.
Absent that cost, it’s not cryptocurrency. It’s just cryptography.
Hey, good luck out there.