[-] ConnecticutKen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

But in NFTs the picture is not on the Blockchain. Only a link to the picture is on the Blockchain and the picture itself is still just on the web.

[-] ConnecticutKen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It works more like loaning money and then receiving interest, except you are loaning crypto to the network and then you get it back, plus some, after a certain period of time

[-] ConnecticutKen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This would just create a fork in the blockchain where 51% of the network doesn't match the correct state of the blockchain that the 49% have. The 49% would effectively stop working because they could never validate the transactions that the 51% takeover has falsely created. The node operators of the 49% of the network would need to reach consensus for how to deal with the problem, but essentially they would just adopt code that ignores the 51% data, so they could continue to process blocks of transactions. Without manual intervention the 49% would be frozen. The 51% is just fake, they haven't really changed anything because every real node operator would know it's false data.

[-] ConnecticutKen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Is it easier to establish a source of trust? With blockchain trust lies in the protocol and in the node operators who make decisions about how to operate their nodes. Running a node isn't extremely difficult. Running a financial institution is difficult.

[-] ConnecticutKen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

That's really rude

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