To the technology
- Why do we need a blockchain at all?
- Is decentralization really good?
- Is centralization really bad?
- What is more dangerous?
- How much does a transaction really cost?
- Why is it so hard to create a wallet?
- Why is it so hard to develop good applications on the Blockchain?
- Is it okay if a transaction costs more than people in third world countries have to live on a daily basis?
- Is the blockchain from a civil-rights perspective acceptable at all?
To Bitcoin and Co.
- Who is really behind the Blockchain and Bitcoin?
- Does Satoshi still have his private key?
- Could it be that Bitcoin is a prototype of central banks?
- What happens if we only have digital currencies?
- Why do I need a new wallet for each new currency?
- Why does everyone want to do an ICO?
- Why is that called ICO at all?
- Do you want to imply a value with ICO like with IPOs?
- How many people have lost their belongings in the price correction?
- Can the course be influenced by fake news?
- Who has the necessary power?
- Who has the capital to benefit massively?
- If Bitcoin trades on the stock market, doesn’t it not fail its purpose?
- Where is the bitcoin price at the end of the year?
To the blockchain startups and community - Why is there only euphoric talk about blockchain at meet-ups?
- Do Blockchain Startups also have a Corporate Social Resposibility?
- What would Milton Friedman say to this?
- Why is everyone giving seminars on Blockchain?
- Do all Blockchain experts have cryptocurrencies?
To politics and society
- What does privacy, transparency, anonymity mean?
- How does a truly decentralized society look like?
- How do you explain Blockchain to a 9-year-old?
- How do teachers explain Blockchain to their students if they can not even explain MS Office properly?
- Whose fault is this?
- Does Mrs. Merkel know how a blockchain works?
- Does Trump think it’s gonna be huuuge?
- Will we get an eGovernment prototype before we have full-coverage broadband Internet in Germany?
- If centralization were gone, how many jobs would it destroy?
Questions to which nobody has an answer:
- What are crypto-kitties?
- Do children want to have Crypto Dogs for Christmas soon?
- How do Tamagotchis feel about that?
- Why should I trust cryptography if I do not understand it?
- Who is really guilty if the system collapses?
- If all of this is fraud, who is responsible if it is decentralized?
- What does (German) Rap Music have to do with cryptocurrencies (Kool Savas, Sido, Kollegah, 50Cent)?
- Does the blockchain threaten our freedom?
- Is the blockchain really as big of a thing as the internet?
- How much influence do China and Russia have?
- Why are graphic cards suddenly so expensive?
- Is the bananacoin really organic?
- Is Jan Böhmermann angry because I got inspired by his 100 questions?
Okay, the last one was a bit of a German inside joke maybe and of course these questions should mainly provoke us to think a bit more differentiated about the trend.
#QOTD: Do you think the mood for Blockchain is too euphoric?
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