it all comes down to 'buy low sell high' in the end honestly

there's more to it then that, find cryptos that are undervalued, put money in, and wait for them to go up then sell

it's essentially no different from playing the stock market

If it's too decentralized, then you get issues in synchronous messaging... Lets say Alice, Bob, and Carl are in a chat room, it's completely decentralized so they each store the data for the chat history

but if alice and bob had a conversation, and neither are online, carl won't be able to retrieve that conversation's data

you could implement a decentralized blockchain, but then you have to incentivize people to host and compute all of those cryptographic messages, this is usually done with some kind of digital token

depends on the amount of users, your suggestion is countered by having a single accont that's online 'all the time'

if you want an experience like discord, then the only solution is to have a "single source of truth" (a central server)

having a chat thing on a blockchain is a terrible idea

you'd want the ability to purge anything

now, whether that can be like a minecraft server, where it's easy for users to just spool up, even keep it on a raspberry pi, that would be ideal

blockchain is antithetical to that

yeah

ideally you'd have a tor-like thing, a mesh-net within the internet

that you'd just have to verify into regularly

My thinking is to build a chat client, and also host a general chat server

but offer a free and open source server users can use in parallel to the default main server (that I'd be running)

to the end user, he won't know the difference looking at the list of "servers" he's subscribed to

that makes you the point of failure

the way I'd make money is by offering a "premium" version of the client

that's what discord already is

that's what any thing "in the cloud" already is

'the cloud' is synonymous with 'hosting it inside the CIA'

rip identity europa

@Lorenzo are you talking about ebets?

im not sure it's fair to ban things like buying a loot box

people should be allowed to gamble if they want to

Not children

this is where i point out that cs:go is literally a M rated game

Don't sign if you don't agree

dont ask the government to take over parenting

(pls)

interestingly enough, the japanese government has set forth some pretty hefty regulations on games that do the random roll loot box/gacha style systems

im curious as to how familiar you are with exactly how gambling happens in csgo

i've only seen videos on it, I don't play myself.

ok

so the enabling factor on valve's end is literally the simple ability to trade skins with other players

you can trade/gift cool jpegs with other steam users

every other piece of this vile evil you want to regulate is 3rd party and valve has no control over it

though i am assuming you're bandwagoning against things like csgodiamonds/ebets and not just loot crates in general

I haven't signed it, I'm only giving it out because I know some people have trouble with it.