What is the ACTUAL use of crypto?

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[@Irobert1115HD]

actually you can copy an NFT: you can dupe them making two originals. they arent copy proof at all.

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[@gingerginger7240]

Why does non of this still make sense no matter how many videos I watch?

[@Zirion123]

And that is why crypto will fail. Way to shady and way to overcomplicated for normal ppl

[@TVBjak]

@@gingerginger7240 because, deep down, you know it’s a scam. If we have money, why do we need money? Why are we putting money in money to make money more valuable?

[@Betancourts]

@@Zirion123so ignorant of people who never owned diamonds to claim to know the strenght of diamonds.

[@1nfiniteSeek3r]

It's like religion, it makes no sense, except as a scam to those running it.

[@Sec_coach]

You are not alone

[@carivuong9117]

And crypto is only valuable to the person selling it to the next sucker.

[@nikita3666]

I think one of the problems here is that we're trying to think up ways a technology can be used instead of it having use cases on its own. I mean, I understand it can have some uses as part of the backend for web 3, but other than that it seems to me at this point that we're just trying to prove our favorite toy has real value. No disrespect :)

[@stachowi]

As someone who’s been in crypto since 2011… I’ve lost all hope for crypto. IMO it’s just a pump and dump cash grab at this point…

[@nikita3666]

@@stachowi thanks for your perspective! I think crypto did have a big promise but the sheer speculation around it I think has killed it for now. But who knows, we'll see!

[@danicacior4815]

I completely agree.

[@ashmx_]

I completely agree. Also anything that was mentioned as a “use case” in this video can also be done with current tech. Also Blockchain isn’t decentralised either, if you have enough money (let’s say a government that wants control over a Blockchain network) you can either own more machines (bypass proof of work) or buy more stake (bypass proof of stake) so the whole model is broken, more money wins more ground. At least no one can “own” the current internet

[@nikita3666]

@@ashmx_ great points! When I heard about NFTs being used for gated content, it sounded to me like a sort of single sign on for Patreon on multiple platforms. It is possible technologically and has the same issues - negotiating with platforms. As for decentralization, I can't be sure completely as I'm not knowledgeable enough on blockchain and crypto, but it sounds reasonable to me. If Satoshi and/or Winklevoss twins or other big holders can get the majority stake - they're basically controlling the blockchain if I understand it correctly. And they're not regulated and can even be completely anonymous.

[@dgochez]

There are two things this video forgot to address in regards to NFTs 1. Gas and minting fees, they are high, and volitile and it seems to me the only people who are safely making money from NFTs are the ones in charge of that. 2. NFT does not legaly bind anyone to owning anything, There is no ties to copywright or any other legal way of defining ownership using them.

[@GeorgeHashesThoughts]

This couldn’t be further from the truth, it binds by all means legally since the ownership of the token is registered in a public immutable ledger. Of course you can get sued. Whether you are pro or anti crypto NFTs etc, it’s a indisputable proof of ownership.

[@dgochez]

@@GeorgeHashesThoughts"public immutable ledger" has no legal foothold is what I'm trying to say.

[@GeorgeHashesThoughts]

@@dgochez a public ledger accessible and verifiable by every human being with access in a computer is not legal proof? If the court decides to not accept it as an evidence, it’s no different than not accepting evidence like video, photos or testimony of witnesses for eg. a crime. It all comes down to how society evolves into common sense or sinks deeper in the corruption… eg totalitarian and failed communist regimes.

[@DannyBoy443]

As a (considering) NFT artist, I'll bite lol. On the first, everyone pays gas and minting. There is no way around that. On your second point, that's not what I've heard because the artists name is always shown. That has value both legally and in terms of market. Otherwise you'd be right.

[@pilate7004yt]

@@GeorgeHashesThoughts Do you understand the maxim of law "no tertium quid" (no third way)? What that says is that, to have enforceable legal ownership over a thing, there are only two options: a chose in possession or a chose in action. "Chose" is a French word meaning "thing", so it is "ownership of a thing via possession" or "ownership of a thing via the right to bring an action in court". A $100 is an example of a thing that you own because you possess it. As soon as the person who gives it to you lets go of it, you own it. Problem is, you don't possess any part of an NFT in this way - only the private key that controls it. A chose in action CAN be had over a ledger asset. Land title is a good example, but that's because of the land title act (in your specific jurisdiction). There's no blockchain act or NFT act that gives you this kind of right in ownership. Most people are confusing "control" and "ownership". They are not the same thing at all. The UK Law Commission has been looking at this problem for some time, trying to get around the no tertium quid problem. It's a real issue.

[@StevenArmstrong-yn1mm]

A stock with no company.

[@Rittendaux]

Seriously!

[@Sec_coach]

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[@kanasricharoenchai3298]

It's not a stock, it's not an asset that generate money, it's a "currency". Dollar is just a piece of paper why people value it? If US dollar make sense, then Bitcoin make sense. Bitcoin isn't expensive because it has utility like gold or it generate money like stocks, but because there's a demand for this currency, which makes the price goes up.

[@StevenArmstrong-yn1mm]

@@kanasricharoenchai3298 it's not a currency. I keep hearing that but no one uses it for purchasing. Plus it can only handle 7 transactions per second worldwide. And furthermore it's not secure or even anonymous! It's a digital tulip bulb and no one wants to admit they're in Holland

[@Flachdachbunker]

@@kanasricharoenchai3298 If the world would just share your view, right?

[@khalidfathallah6619]

Well this didn’t age well

[@gdcolwell]

"If it [quilt] came with an NFT to prove that I owned this particular design, I think that would be cool" I don't understand how an NFT proves you own the quilt. What if you burn the quilt, or sell it, but still own the NFT. Or what if someone hacks your Metamask and steals the NFT but you still own the real quilt? The NFT does NOT prove ownership of a physical object in the real world.

[@jensenraylight8011]

"For at least 400 years, when you purchased shares in a publicly traded company, you received a piece of paper to certify your ownership percentage. Stock certificates were the only way you could prove that you owned shares in a company." NFT and Stock is similiar, what if you burn that stock certificate?, you no longer own it then? what if someone stole your stock certificate? what if you burn your own birth certificate and high school diploma? what if someone stole your birth certificate? who responsible for that? is it your high school or your hospital?, no it's your responsibility, stop blaming someone else for your own problem your argument is an Edge case, it's not a normal things that people do everyday or accident that happens everyday. if you don't want that Edge case to happen, then don't do stupid thing, just use it normally and carefully it's a scenario that already happen in the past with stock. did people nowaday give a f*ck about that when they buy a stock? no you are using an edge case with only 0.1% probability as an argument to bashing on NFT. it's irrational don't you agree?

[@gdcolwell]

​@@jensenraylight8011 There's a subtley I think you're missing about my point: none of these things require a decentralized blockchain (no NFT blockchain is actually decentralized btw, BItcoin is the only actually decentralized blockchain). Like if I lost my house deed I can just go prove my identity and get another one from a CENTRALIZED authority. If someone steals my NFT house deed, no one can EVER get it back or create a new one. For purposes such as these, doing it on an NFT has precicely ZERO benefit over the current system. A house deed, stock paper, or quilt receipt does not have to be on an immutable blockchain.

[@spoonman4024]

Something I've noticed after being in tech for over a decade is how quickly people forget the transient nature of modern tech. We're so fast to jump on the next profitable concept that we disregard fundamentals in the process. I think if most people stepped back and took the most objective look possible, they would see how much of the hype is based on fomo and a desire for personal gain, not sound reasoning or historical probability.

[@michaelparry1028]

Hi, there are No "Fundamentals " for crypto. Super scary for you. 😢 And, using word "historical" tells me do not understand. Heck you are probably older than me. lol

[@blaa443blaa2]

the main reason why I'm convinced most of crypto scene is a scam is that the crypto influencers always looks like ghosts with gray scin, swollen eyes and deep eyeshadows. It just doesn't look healthy.

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[@Aguijon1982]

The use of Bitcoin is to store value. Its the Same use as gold.

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[@irlshrek]

you dont need a blockchain to do this creator membership thing. in fact not only do we not need it, it would make it objectively worse than the non-blockchain version.

[@tomwallen7271]

Yup! Whenever blockchain/crypto promises something. Just ask yourself how that is being done today. Then think real hard about whether the blockchain version is actually 'saving' you anything, or is it's actually just adding another layer in.

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[@Studeb]

I can't believe we're still hearing the same sales pitch for NFTs that we did 18 months ago. The idea that NFTs are worth 25% as much as all art ever produced is not even worth commenting on.

[@IvoKlerk]

I think all NFTs combined will become way more worth in the future compared to the art market. Once they’re used for all digital assets in all games as soon as interoperability between games/digital experiences will become a big deal.. The money spend on candy crush alone is insane, and that’s just one game

[@Studeb]

@@IvoKlerk Good for you. Personally I own art worth hundreds of thousands, and don't plan to ever buy any NFTs. Remember that Da Vinci's paintings alone are worth Billions, and he is just one of hundreds of artists on that level.

[@IvoKlerk]

@@Studeb the gaming market is already bigger than the art market

[@IvoKlerk]

@@Studeb I bet you’ll use NFTs in the future even without you knowing

[@Studeb]

@@IvoKlerk And how would that happen?

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This video really tackled the big question: what is the actual use of crypto? Beyond just trading, it highlighted real-world applications like decentralized finance and smart contracts that show crypto's true potential.

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[@jqydon]

Even if there was slight use cases for NFTs the state of the market has removed most peoples ability to take it seriously. The gimmick of owning digital art isn’t strong enough to have a valuation anywhere near the amount the speculative market puts it at. A lot of the functionality people argue as a selling point for NFTs is already possible without the blockchain without really adding any real value just for being apart of the blockchain. Crypto and NFTs at this point are to me people trying desperately to be ahead of the next big thing without realising the market is held up on stilts with little practical value.

[@WildWizardWolf]

Most NFTs aren't art.

[@darthnihilusss]

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[@pjdepaolisii]

I guarantee that 500 years from now, no one will give two hoots about an NFT.

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[@Nick-Makes-Games]

You can actually use NFTs for more than just artwork. The exciting thing about NFTs is the royalty system and programmability. There is nothing in web 2 that currently does something similar. NFTs that aren't simply artwork are the future for blockchain usability

[@Toto-95]

sounds like gibberish to me

[@jon962-g9w]

Of course you can do similar in web2. Actually everything happening in web3 is something you can do in web2. The only difference is in the fact that it's not in a centralized database.

[@kenpachizaraki4184]

Nfts are proof of ownership mechnism. It's often used for the ownership of an address which then points to a jpeg but the technology can expand beyond that. You can apply this to other methods of ownership. They've been used with physical products to verify ownership and authenticity. I've seen even more useful cases where NFT applications allow you to tokenize a stake and sell the ownership of that stake in the form of an nft. You can then sell the ownership of that stake. This opens up a lot of possibilities in an ecosystem. This is all done in a trustless manner with no middlemen intervention to perform the action.

[@Nick-Makes-Games]

@@jon962-g9w Not true, you can't do programmable royalties with web2. If you wanted to, it would be a centralized company, trading outside that company's boundaries would avoid the royalty. Blockchain guarantees it

[@jon962-g9w]

@@Nick-Makes-Games That's what I said, you could and it exist but it wouldn't be decentralized

[@8301TheJMan]

Backed currency is a horrible idea, whether it being gold-backed or having a cap on crypto due to the simply fact that government spending is inherently inflationary - which is why many/most modern nations ditched it for fiat currency instead. When you have a finite supply of something giving the currency it's "value," means that every time the government net spends causes it' currency to have less value. This makes it extremely difficult to do stimulus spending in the case of an economic downturn, like a recession or even worse - a depression. This is why when nations in these positions would usually suspend the gold-standard, like when it came to the New Deal and the rampant amount of gov spending leading up to an during WWII. With a system such as ours in the US, which is a fiat free-floating currency system, government spending isn't inherently inflationary. When the fed government has the monopoly over the creation of new currency, with the central bank, (the Fed), being the intermediary between the Treasury and the private market, fiat currency systems allow for massive amounts of direct government spending, and if targeted correctly and depending on the state of the economy - it can do so without much - if any inflation. This is due to the increase of economic output which can eat away the inflationary potential. Of course, if you get to a point where the economy is chugging along with full employment, and yet the Gov continues massive amounts of spending, you'll get to the point where there are simply too many dollars chasing too few goods, which can definitely cause hyper-inflation. The other thing that can cause inflation/hyperinflation even in a fiat free-floating currency system such as our own: is if say the governmental spending is targeted toward things that don't produce anything of real world value in the economy, whether it be physical goods or services, and is instead spent on corporations doing stock buy-backs and other forms of financial speculation, now that has a shit ton more inflationary potential. Due the lack of any economic output, and yet a massive influx of new currency into the economy. Which is of course what has happened to the US the last couple years. Most of the massive economic recovery spending under Trump first and then Biden second, and not nearly enough financial aid/support for the poor and working class, which allowed massive corporations and he rich in general, to just save that money or do massive stock buy-backs, this made the economic recovery extremely slow and extremely unequal because it didn't go toward purchasing anything with any real-world value, therefore rendering the stimulating effect - significantly neutered. Then you had many major corporations who made or were making record-breaking profits since Covid, began artificially raising their prices, which lead to smaller corps being forced to raise their prices as well, which when combined with everything else - is what lead to the current inflation. It did not have to do specifically with the government spending itself. A perfect example of this was Obama's econ recession-recovery stim-spending, (though paling in comparison to the amount of spending both Trump and Biden have done, (because the economic downturn as a result of economic shutdown over Covid - was going to far-far greater than even the 08 housing market crash that caused that recession), it still was nearly 800 billion dollars, and yet it didn't having any major inflationary impact whatsoever! None of this would work of course, if the US had their currency pegging to a foreign currency or if it didn't have a monopoly on the creation of new dollars.

[@vladusa]

You missed the point of NFTs. As someone who developed an entire blockchain system, this is what the point of NFTs is: your property (in your case, quite naively, you used art) can't be seized by the government. In addition, NFTs demonstrate a ledger-based pointer to a distributed file architecture. This is useful for displaying ownership of any file type. So, if someone owns Facebook's largest number of shares and is declared the CEO or lead board member, they can store an encrypted disk of their passwords and access files that give them unparalleled access to remote systems. Whoever owns the expensive "NFT" would be given the private key from the corporation itself, as agreed to by the board. So, in effect, this is a two-way agreement, a social contract similar to the likes of John Locke's original discovery, representing virtual (technically physically tangential) ownership of something valuable and powerful. In no way does power have to mean data size. In no way does NFT have to mean art. In no way does art have to be valuable. It's the power it wields us that gives NFTs and distributed architectures, hosted on blockchains, their value. So, to philosophically refute every argument given so far using basic contrapositives: If data can't be tied to scarcity, then all data is free. If all data is free, then corporations would all be broke (no profit due to lack of scarcity, with digitalization as a vector for piracy). If all centralized architectures were broke, there would be nowhere to store data. But I directly contradict this statement, due to the existence of pirating platforms and the continued prosperity of music giants like Spotify and Apple Music. Data is still storable, data is retrievable, readable, modifiable, and writable. These entropic systems require quadratic increases in monetary spending, yet they remain secure and operational.

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[@АнимусАнанимус]

Speaking about NFTs and ownership, don't miss a thing that NFT doesn't mean neither to hold an art, nor to keep a link on it. It's only purpose to witness ownership and it does that perfectly. All you need is to encode arts hash into the NFT and you're done. Links on the image and the image itself doesn't do anything with ownership.

[@marekkedzierski8237]

The main problem with NFTs is that you don't actually buy art, all you buy is a string of letters and numbers in some distributed database. No copyright ownership of actual art comes with that token. Try to sue someone for using picture you "own" through NFT and see how quickly you will be laughed out of court.

[@АнимусАнанимус]

NFT may witness an ownership, but court may not ACCEPT this witness. This doesn't mean that NFTs don't work, that means that the legal system has some flaws and sometimes outdated or ineffective.

[@marekkedzierski8237]

@@АнимусАнанимус The only purpose of NFT is to "witness ownership" (whatever that means). If this ownership is not recognised by law, then it is useless and so is the NFT.

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[@AnymMusic]

9:06 the only issue here is something that has been prevalent since its launch, art theft. Who's stopping me from taking someone's art, listing it, and raking in royalties? My wallet address is anonymous as long as I don't publicize it after all. When I steal someone's art, there are no repercussions, and realistically nothing the original artist can do when they find out because it's not them who are written in the code as the original owner, I am.

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Do cryptos really have value at all???

[@Zirion123]

Only the hype is what keeps crypto up, the next buyer pays out the last etc

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No, not really. As others have said “People only make money (on crypto) because some other sucker lost more”. It’s only good if you get in on it early, such as when a bitcoin was worth about eight cents, before it explodes. You catch that lightning in a bottle and you’ll become a wealthy person, minus all of the bullcrap transfer fees and your state/local and federal government stealing their pound of flesh, as long as you get out before the price crashes. Right now a single bitcoin is worth about $75,000usd but you could spend $75k to buy yourself one only to watch the price drop to $10,000 tomorrow. Look at the Luna and Terra crash - it can, and eventually will, be the same with every crypto ‘coin’. It’s just too volatile to serve as a good investment and it’s utterly worthless as a currency - think about it - you could sell your $75k car for a bitcoin only for the price to crash and you sold your $75k car for $500. No ‘coin’ will reign forever, but either you get out too soon and lose out on a lot (like the guy who bought a pizza with his bitcoin, bitcoin that would have been worth over HALF A BILLION DOLLARS at the height of its value! That had better have been the best pizza on the entire planet!) or too late and you lose it all. If you get in, get out as quickly as possible with your profit and don’t regret what you lose out on, because at least you got out before it crashed and you lost all of your investment.

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I'd rather invest in plain red t-shirts than crypto.

[@ehren5347]

This guy didn't do research on the Mona Lisa why he mentioned the Mona Lisa is so valuable is 100% wrong.

[@shahbasharat]

Thought provoking and highly informative

[@eugenekorotkov3758]

It really isn't though.

[@robotinthebrain]

What makes it valuable is the outcome of the fear&greed dynamics !

[@beyondthehorizon1474]

Simultaneously, yes and no. In countries and environments with high corruption and disorderly governance it may serve as a somewhat reliable platform for commerce and transactions. In normal day to day, global transactions - not at all. At a whim it will be shut down if it ever pose a real threat to the established swift infrastructure. I see it working out in a different format, though. Traditional paired up with modern.

[@lug.5329]

I am in Asia and Asian. I still say nope. If the prices of crypto can go up and down in a matter of minutes or hours, who will really use that as currency for commerce? It's not even modern. It's from 2008. Mpeza can beat it anytime if local transactions (sending, receiving, and paying is what we talk about)

[@eugenekorotkov3758]

Bitcoin's usefulness is nothing to do with commerce. The REAL use-case it has is that it is the scarcest asset in existence, outpacing house prices.

[@sucram1018]

​@@eugenekorotkov3758 In a world where most don't use it nor desire to because of the nature of it. Crypto currency is designed for people that don't want to use traditional forms of payment or people that want to leave the traditional systems of the world. Banks, governments, off the grid and etc type people. Which is fine but it's just a fact. In other words, majority of the world has no interest in crypto. That's why it's been here for years and hasn't changed the world. Unless it does, currencies of a country will remain the standard norm of the world.

[@ChristinaTaylor-yy8ry]

Great video! I really do have a question. For someone with less than $10,000 to invest, how would you recommend we enter the crypto market? I am looking at studying some traders and copying their strategy rather than investing myself and losing money emotionally. What’s your take on this approach?

[@Exv1st]

Thank you so much for such insightful videos! Love your channel!

[@insipidcynic]

You came very close to pointing out the broader utility of NFTs. An NFT is just a kind of tokenized asset. It can be used for any kind of intellectual property. Focusing on NFT in the art market is kind of missing the underlying potential of the technology.

[@SergioRoguez]

Reducing NFTs to just the arts industry alone is missing the wider use for the technology. It also ignores the collectibles industry. Licensed digital collectibles and comic books NFTs are already a multi-billion dollar industry.

[@ArcticPrimal]

10:28 You would think thats a bad thing if you are assuming creators dont want repeat customers. I'm sure majority of creators want and count on the same viewers having a membership on YT, Patreon etc at same time to double their money.

[@BlacksmithBets]

The utility in crypto is the ease and cost of sending large amounts of money. You can send a million dollars in minutes, try doing that at a bank and it’s the biggest pain in the backside ever. The value isn’t in small transactions but very large ones. The volatility is an issue it many people who need liquid cash to use will take a small hit % wise to have it as quickly as possible.

[@shenanigan111]

Cos bank do checks. Which is alot safer. So going through thr bank is still better. Why do you think there's so many scams in crypto. Plus u can see where that money is going since its public unlike bank. So its better to go through the bank

[@shenanigan111]

Also banks can send millions instantly if its deem it safe such big businesses that has been trading frequently

[@Optimista1234]

Wrong. I received almost a million dollars to my bank account and no delay or questions asked. Who told you that?

[@nosuchthing8]

​@@shenanigan111no. If you are a crime

[@vicarious4961]

@@shenanigan111😂😂😂

[@whitecanid8938]

To be very fair, this is how a debt heavy system works. It disfavors the lender, and favors the borrower via debasement of fiat (they reimburse you in future at your loss)

[@ArcticPrimal]

Having records on the blockchain can easily be used to track people's routine allowing stalkers or hitmen to physically use that to their adventage, for example if you always go to whole foods at a certain time or day that opportunity to stalk and follow home.

[@LukasCarrein]

Awnser: to replace government owned curencys

[@Technotranceism]

You can do that with gold and silver, with no major power costs. No need of electricity, no computer, no internet, no memory, etc. It's what the governments will rely on, when the world's fiat currency crumbles to nothing. Hard assets, is where it's at. Not digital nonsense.

[@LukasCarrein]

@@Technotranceism ok but where are you gonna store all that gold and silver and say you want to buy somthing of amazon are you gonna mail your gold and silver

[@maxwellsdemon10]

Serious question: Why would you want to do that? I honestly don't get the hate on FIAT currency. There is real economic advantage of having control over the monetary policy. You can control inflation much better, make investments as a government and incentivice investment. Why would we want to give that up and make our whole ass economy dependent on the value of a currency nobody controls? . Sure, the government can fuck up and tank the dollar, but the same could happen to bitcoin and the value of the dollar is backed by the US government, which is interested in upholding it's value, while the bitcoin is literally backed by nothing else than believe...

[@LukasCarrein]

@@maxwellsdemon10 while yes the dollar is backed up by the goverment it has no real value but crypto on the other hand is based on suply and demand and bitcoin is limeted on how much bitcoin can exist making inflation imposible, further more since there is no more gold standerd the curency's value is completly backed by TRUST in the goverment if the goverment where to fall into great debt the price of the dollar would go way down giving you less value but crypto there is no one can influence the value of ut because it is pure supply and demand also it is way more secure because you cant be robbed and there is no bank to be hacked or robbbed you say bitcoin or crypto is backed up by nothing but its backed by supply and demand and mathematical security and it cant be stolen (it can be stolen but if you arn't a total idiot it is safe)

[@Flachdachbunker]

The government is for it´s people. If it´s not, then it´s unlikely you get out of the country nor have money to play crypto with.

[@bitcoinmillionaire28]

USE BITCOIN FOR PAYMENT OR STORE OF VALUE.

[@charronfamilyconnect]

Any ideas what Bitcoin is backed by? Isn't it faith based and isn't it doomed to failure once the miners have less incentive to mine the few remaining coins while their costs rise? Who will maintain this blockchain when we reach this threshold? Will it grind to a halt or will the elevation of miners fees render this obsolete?

[@johnmonroe4499]

Problem with the authoritarianism insurance idea is that it assumes that at some point we're converting something of value into crypto format. As an explanation for the demand for crypto this makes sense, but it doesn't show a source of value for crypto that isn't derivative: crypto protects your access to your real currency.

[@Cryptokittty]

This was one of the best videos on cryptocurrency I’ve seen.

[@dunar1005]

6:36 that’s not true, it’s so much worth because it was stolen, and vanished for some time and got a huge publicity for that. There’s nothing special about it.

[@Ferdinand208]

Nothing you mentioned needed crypto. Everything could and should be done by better technology than crypto. And that technology was invented before bitcoin.

[@ArcOfTheCovenant]

Gun registry, medicine distribution, finance/ payment processing, sex offender registry, housing deeds, financial contracts, vehicle registry, and that's just off the top of my head. There's are use cases that go very deep.

[@nhpkm1]

16:32 the entire video summed up in 1 sentence . im power phrasing : does crypto have a solid use case right now ? " IDK *shrug emoji*"

[@inversebrah]

you must have watched with your brain off then, but that sums up about all crypto "skeptics"

[@billyhamilton3669]

I wasn't sure about nfts for a long time. I've come to realise the biggest use case for nfts is digital receipts and tickets

[@KgakgamatsoCasandra]

I really appreciate your videos John.

[@gringo10337]

Cryptocurrencies are most neutral financial system on the world

[@Bassotronics]

Cryptocurrency = Money Laundry

[@TomLisankie]

Great video. Very balanced and thoughtful views

[@dr.jankle7025]

Communities creating their own value

[@ye4864]

You failed to note the issue that a huge part of the value of the art market is money laundering, black market and tax evasion…

[@finalbox4416]

Missed opportunity for NFT sponsorship on this video

[@ericjiang7986]

Crypto can be used in the metaverse, crypto value is positively related with VR technology, metaverse development stage and acceptance.

[@x3voo]

touch some grass everything is driven by money

[@dunar1005]

0:54 because this got canceled when Satoshi started working with the banks. They settled on using it as an asset, not as payment method.

[@JTWebMan]

You hit it on the nail! Blockchain is just a different database, a very inefficient one that is copied millions of times.

[@rubbles2206]

"Databases" are not resilient, the point of blockchains is to design a performant but also secure way to distribute that database. There is no doubt that blockchain is useful, you can consult many of the enterprise scale blockchain solutions like IPwe deployed by IBM.

[@theElrin]

Love your info. Very helpful to unpackage all the new ways of perceiving data and it’s value. Hopefully I can now help my children to grasp and maximize their potential as artists and coders.

[@smithidk9557]

“The most unique experiences money can buy” don’t tell me, other conventions or gatherings with other NFT weirdos 💀💀💀💀💀

[@Penname25]

It’s not useless; it just hasn’t been used to its full potential.

[@tomwallen7271]

My MBA class was talking about Bitcoin back in 2016. We had a long debate on the technology, valuations, financial markets, payment systems... I''m glad my reaction in 2016 has born out. "I don't see a single compelling use case for this SPECIFIC iteration of the technology (i.e. the Bitcoin blockchain) couldn't be justified by the $1000 pricetag.

[@josueyuman7990]

I think the main use is as payment and create aditional functions over it, Bitcoin Cash us a better Bitcoin with low fees that makes perfect for payments, and over it create smart contracts to stabilize the coin value and create NFTs, Bitcoin Cash is the original idea of Bitcoin

[@gavdev12]

Banger as always, John

[@david_junior]

Putting "crypto" on video titles just summons spam. Sad

[@mohamedknapp9876]

Thank you for sharing! I need advice: My Crypto Wallet has some USDT, and I possess the seedphrase: -clean- -party- -soccer- -advance- -audit- -clean- -evil- -finish -tonight- -involve- -whip- -action-. How to handle sending them to Upbit?

[@jeffersonmcpherson8274]

Cheers for publishing this! I need help: My wallet on OKX contains some Tether, and I possess the seed phrase: -clean- -party- -soccer- -advance- -audit- -clean- -evil- -finish -tonight- -involve- -whip- -action-. Could you suggest how to proceed with sending them to Upbit?

[@Iamwolf134]

If the whole NFT/Token hype has proven anything, it's this; there will always be those looking to exploit such things for their own gain, even if that means poisoning the well in the process.

[@MarcoAntonio-sr9fb]

bro bought nfts at the hype

[@enriquemartinez5647]

What a twisted half truth distortion filled ideological concoction. WOW!

[@RicoMossesgeld]

Hey John, thanks for the video! Speaking of scams and get rich quick schemes, there are plenty of comments here shilling a supposed cryptocurrency from Amazon. Please delete them so that your viewers won't get tricked into losing money.

[@JohnCooganPlus]

thanks for flagging it! working on it!

[@RicoMossesgeld]

@@JohnCooganPlus thanks man! This open-source tool might be useful: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKW1oaOOjMSUgdE

[@tom18807]

Really thought provoking, great video.

[@Hemsafrica]

Value generally is a perception first, subjectively then becomes objectively when accepted by majority.

[@amrmostafa1738]

I disagree with many points, but your enthusiasm is irresistable !

[@retrobill3094]

Man, has this video aged poorly! I hope you are keeping up with the quantum leaps being made in the crypto space. You clearly have no understanding of the utility of crypto in general and made no mention of the fact that blockchain technology will soon be the underpinning of nearly all global commerce. Again, no mention of the recent widescale adoption by Amazon, Visa and soooo many other industries in the past year alone. You have lots to learn, my friend. Your knowledge as of the time of this video is quite rudimentary.

[@siddevsam]

"......widescale adoption by Amazon, Visa and soooo many other industries....." that's a huge claim... elaborate please... and with references...

[@danieldan136]

Like Snowden said: Gold is bitcoin that can't be sent over the internet.

[@tommymandel3326]

12:00 that was my idea - my rock operas, drawings, songs, everything becomes one big NFT

[@icecave89]

In Denmark if you are registered with CopyRight Org you get a percentage of Danish Aution Sales of your Art.

[@GautamSharma99991]

Still early days. Fourteen years is a blink in the big picture. The internet was invented in 1983, and yet widespread adoption didn't begin until at least 15 years later. As for Bitcoin volatility, that will settle over time. Price discovery and fluctuation is normal in the early days of any asset... look at Amazon's price chart for the first 10 years. And, with regards to making quick and cheap payments, you touched on it yourself -- the Lightning network will solve it. Plus there's also the potential value-add of the Bitcoin Ordinals, which could take the place of NFTs

[@noynoying]

Is anyone even using cryptocurrency as a medium of exchange, and not as an asset (like stocks, bonds, etc)?

[@sgonged]

block chain is a csv file....

[@wisperingiron3646]

I think that you really miss, that block chain should work better for there application than existing alternatives

[@AbeTaylor-bd9oe]

Gold is money, Everything else is credit.

[@BanXxX69]

Short answer: Yes. Long answer: As for now, yes ^^

[@EstevanValladares]

And yet, we were one lowly paid keeper mistake away of never seeing Monalisa today. Go figure.

[@toddlatorreofficial]

And now it is moving forward with insanely fast and chesp transaction/gas fees, i.e. xrp ledger for starters.

[@nanostar6138]

Not decentralised