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RE: Tauchain and the privacy question (benefits of secret contracts and private knowledge)

in #tauchain6 years ago

Awesome explanation, I understand now how it could be used! May I ask which cryptos you believe the strongest in at the moment, respectively in the forthcoming years ? My biggest investment at the moment is Steem, Bitcoin EOS, bitshares and ENG.

Right now I’m a bit at the crossroads, I believe in Steem, and frankly it’s one of the few projects that is actually materialized and is being used, but with the rise of EOS and rumors of Steemit 2.0, it feels like Steem has lost a bit of its edge, what do you think ?

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My opinion on Steem vs Steem 2.0 is that time is running out for Steem original to maintain dominance. In fact I see certain design decisions which could make it easier for a competitor to compete such as the fact that all the account data is public. Quite easy to snapshot the Steem blockchain and create a Steem 2.0 with all the exact same token distributions. Quite easy even for Tauchain or any other project to snapshot the Steem blockchain and sharedrop a token to compete with Steem. The lack of privacy also provides an opportunity for a competitive advantage for any competitor which adds privacy.

I am not yet convinced of EOS. EOS has to compete with Tezos, Cardano, and others. I do not hold EOS at this point in time.

Maybe Steem should think of cooperating with Enigma hehe. It does indeed feel like time is running out a bit. I wonder, if SMTwould have been launched by the beginning of the year, how things would look like today. Another thing I wonder is how long the crypto market will move as a whole, as opposed to projects moving based on their progress and adoption. I guess time will tell.

I suggested that but it was not well received unfortunately. I don't think Steem will ever adopt privacy features due to political objectives of Steemit.inc but I do think witnesses could be convinced someday perhaps.

I more importantly is whether or not Tauchain which seeks to build a decentralized social network makes the decision to have private computations or not. It's a very critical decision which will have to be made for any social network but particularly for Tauchain. I think Steem already made their decision and has to live with the open network and all the problems from that choice.

I think there can always be a compromise of some sort. Me myself I would not mind advertisement on Steemit (some, not too much). It would help to inject capital and raise Steem and thus benefit everyone holding Steem tokens. But I guess advertisement is even a bigger no no for Steemit inc.

Quite easy to snapshot the Steem blockchain and create a Steem 2.0 with all the exact same token distributions. Quite easy even for Tauchain or any other project to snapshot the Steem blockchain and sharedrop a token to compete with Steem.

As someone who’s primary investment in Steem, I think that’d be great.

I’ve had many concerns regarding Steemit’s weaknesses, and accompanying confusion about how I’d prefer to allocate my investment, when the time comes for Steem 2.0 - unsure of whether to move funds over, how much, etc.

That’d be pretty awesome to be airdropped an amount of tokens proportional to my Steem holdings, and thus have a beginning stake in others, should they be the ones to solve the challenges and win out.

Quite a brilliant idea.

Tauchain and Enigma.

Thanks for the tip :)

Many people ask where to buy Agoras. The problem is it's not widely available on centralized exchanges. The only exchange I know that has it is Bitshares. So if anyone really wants to buy Agoras (AGRS) which is the token of discussion in this post feel free to buy it at: https://openledger.io/market/AGRS_BTC

42 million intermediate tokens total. Current price is: 0.00010700 BTC which is around 70 cents. This is the cheapest price I've seen it in a while because for a long time it was $1.50-$1.30 range.

Thanks for the information ! I Will stack some :)