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BlockPaper – Centralized, paper-backed blockchain in my home office
- function_seven 5y agoI don't see it listed anywhere on your site, so I guess I'll ask here. How much to fork the chain near the beginning? Does the price depend on how many links I intend to strand on a side-fork? I would like my link to be #7 on the chain. You've already sold "double digits." What's it gonna cost me?
- mipmap04 5y agoI knew someday I'd be asked this question. Let's just say it's sizeable as my proof of paper consensus algorithm is tied to how hard I want to work and I'm very lazy. Managing two forks sounds tedious. Stay tuned though - I'll definitely be adding forks in the future.
- pbobak 5y agoDid Dunder Mifflin finally get into crypto space?
- mipmap04 5y agoInfinite paper in a paperless world.
- mipmap04 5y agoThanks for your interest in BlockPaper. Imagine a world where all transactions can be tracked on a single, linear chain of paper links. Centrally managed in a corner in my home office, each link in this chain represents a step forward into our collective future - a future that you can use your money to own a small part of. Adding a new link to the chain is easy and affordable - based on how I'm feeling and your personal defintion of affordable. The starting price for a new link in the chain is $1.00 USD. This price is variable and based on a mathematical function. Essentially, the price is inversely correlated with how much I want to get off my chair and add a new link to the chain. Once the new link is added, I'll send you a picture of it via email. I wrote BlockPaper last night using ASP.NET Core, Azure (SQL, storage, webapps), Twilio, SendGrid, and Cloudflare. You can follow the project on Twitter at https://twitter.com/BuyBlockPaper https://twitter.com/BuyBlockPaper
- p4bl0 5y agoHi! Will you also post the pictures on the Twitter account or only send it by email? On the one hand I would like to be able to brag about my purchase and having it posted by your Twitter account would make it look more official (after all, I could take the picture myself on a fake BlockPaper at home if I was a scammer), on the other hand I fear that people will download and report the picture of the BlockPaper link I paid for to own it myself. I've seen them people, they tend to do that. Also, before I invest my money in this project, I would like to know: how many BlockPaper links have been sold already?
- boulos 5y agoLooks like there's a /view endpoint. Current end of chain is #10: https://www.buyblockpaper.com/View/10 https://www.buyblockpaper.com/View/10 .
- pettycashstash2 5y agoElon Musk has one! He promises! https://buyblockpaper.com/View/13 https://buyblockpaper.com/View/13
- mipmap04 5y agoYes that's right. It's all viewable - it's the only physically observable blockchain (that I'm aware of). Also I'm not really sure what a blockchain is, but I'm confident this qualifies.
- boulos 5y ago
- vitiral 5y agoWhat about the collapse of civilization or the apocalypse? How much will block paper be worth if all law, order and economies break down?
- mipmap04 5y agoBlockPaper will likely cause the collapse of civilization as it will be the most sought after physical item in the world and will cause massive cross-continental conflict once the chain reaches critical mass. So, I mean, it's gonna be worth a lot. No other blockchain can, or will, make this claim. When the grid shuts down, BlockPaper keeps ticking.
- vitiral 5y agoThat's good to hear. I'll just pull all my investments from my goat farm and civboot.org and put it all in block paper then. Thanks for making everything so much easier!
- caaqil 5y agoThis is so good. Another one of those 'is this a hilarious joke or just another blockchain project pioneered by your next-door crypto bro' challenges! This was a close one, almost got me.
- mipmap04 5y agoI'm serious about taking your money.
- dmitryminkovsky 5y agoCan I send you cash?
- mipmap04 5y agoOnly if you exchange it for hoops of paper on a chain in my home office.
- magicjosh 5y agoSmart people taking time and effort to make fun of something is the ultimate compliment! This is the kind of satire that pushes me to go dig deeper into cryptocurrencies and figure out what's world changing and what's chaff. Been listening to the Zero Knowledge podcast recently to learn about ZK Proofs: https://zeroknowledge.fm/ https://zeroknowledge.fm/
- mipmap04 5y agoBold of you to think I'm smart! Thanks for checking it out.
- magicjosh 5y agoIt's not a coincidence that 24 writers for the Simpsons went to Harvard! source: https://www.uselessdaily.com/movies/how-many-writers-of-the-simpsons-went-to-harvard/ https://www.uselessdaily.com/movies/how-many-writers-of-the-...
- DongQuixote 5y ago
- raevilman 5y agoI just bought a link in the chain with my seed printed on it. But after multiple refreshes I don't see the link in my OpenSea account. and now support isn't answering....
- webrif 5y agoOn transfership, how the new owner will know the secret? Also, where do you store secrets? And how transferring will look at the data storage?