From 8b0ab6465f85d256df5a36d6dc8fe9f58384933f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Biller <38798392+jamesbiller@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:56:14 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update 179-is-everything-better-on-the-blockchain.md --- .../news/179-is-everything-better-on-the-blockchain.md | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/news/179-is-everything-better-on-the-blockchain.md b/content/news/179-is-everything-better-on-the-blockchain.md index 498803be..f849e267 100644 --- a/content/news/179-is-everything-better-on-the-blockchain.md +++ b/content/news/179-is-everything-better-on-the-blockchain.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ date: '2018-08-15 08:08:08' cover: 'lex-amit.jpg' category: blog --- -It’s 2018 and everyone’s scrambling to be "on the blockchain". +It’s 2018 and everyone’s scrambling to be the first to put something "on the blockchain". A few strange examples include the following: @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Note that these coins were picked randomly and that there are MANY more cryptocu There are a number of telling signs from the home page of each coin’s respective website that these projects are attempting to cash in on the hype of blockchain. I’ll cover 3 red flags for each site and analyze the "value" of their project. -1. All Sports ($SOC) +## Are sports better on the blockchain? ![All Sports Coin](https://staging.spee.ch/d389f79f88b7008508f71f4964e9b5f858ad91c0/soc-coin.png) @@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ If there was one solution they might’ve been offering it would be the a decent The creators of SOC seem to take for granted that the sports industry needs its own blockchain, and that having a couple of famous soccer player faces on the front page of the website will surely be a way to draw speculators to invest in their token. This is the sport of pump and dump, and you have to be a bad sport to play it. +## Is gaming better on the blockchain? + ![Game.com](https://staging.spee.ch/9fdb30146b3a78c6dffdb78edc95f16c29b38743/game-coin.png) Red flags: @@ -89,6 +91,8 @@ Me losing a game of Animal Tower (not on the blockchain). I think me going to download the game in the iOS store and having a successful experience (or unsuccessful considering I was pretty bad at it) demonstrates that most games probably won’t have much of a reason to be on the blockchain unless there’s value in having a decentralized ledger for the gaming experience. +## Is marijuana better on the blockchain? + ![PotCoin Page](https://spee.ch/d08289202108536390d5731c720d883a2c33f265/potcoin-page.png) Red flags: