TechTakes

At this point cryptocurrency has a bad enough reputation that they have to try and ease readers into it.

(insert clown getting dressed meme image here)

1. It's new digg!
2. AI is bad (but also sexy and all powerful)
3. so captchas are hard :(
4. let's make a real fancy captcha!
5. With... Zero-Knowledge Proofs :D :D :D :D :D (all non cryptocurrency people flee at this point)
6. Also like NFTs for products you buy so when you shill them people know you're at least a real person doing so (maybe, kinda, sorta)
7. So anyway I was thinking if only there was something else as ~~dystopian~~ cool as Sam Altman 様's orb thing and we smeared it across the entire internet

if you want authenticity, just get good fucking moderation running, but noooo, this involves paying people (giving money away?? this is not how billionaires are made) and can't be grifted on

also https://xkcd.com/810/

Ah yes, back to key signing parties. But dumber.

Didn't steemit already fail horribly trying to do this?

Yeah, not with these tech bros in charge. They have no interest in the truth or they would pay fact checkers and mods.

Honestly, this does seem like a valid use of the technology behind crypto. Definitely a more beneficial use than just value speculation like we have now.