In the last issue, Sun Ba ‘er wrote a tweet titled “Are you metacosmic today?” I just want to follow up with this article “Did you blockchain yesterday?” .
Today’s metacomverse craze reminds me of yesterday’s blockchain craze. People are so flocking to it that they don’t want to catch up with it.
In 2018, the year of the blockchain boom, Sun was working as a vice president at a financial company in Washington. He was also caught up in the boom.
I remember there was a blockchain conference in Washington at that time, which invited some famous people from all walks of life in Washington, and Sun was lucky enough to be invited among them. The scene is a high-end hotel, surrounded by beautiful women, can imagine the blockchain will soon bring you the success of enjoyment.
This conference is held by a blockchain company in Shenzhen, which claims to overturn the entire video industry with blockchain technology. Their solution is: you can watch videos while mining for blockchain…
I was very impressed by the boss of the company who was present. He had a string of wax dangling from his wrist, which was obviously larger than the string on my wrist. He was middle-aged and greasy, and he was obviously more oily than me.
A few days ago, when I was browsing Tiktok, I suddenly saw this boss. He has become a food expert and taught people how to cook dishes on Tiktok. Sure enough, bosses who do not know blockchain are not good cooks!
But the most memorable part of the day was when I strolled to the door of the hotel and saw an old lady preaching to another old lady. I heard her voice roar through the air: “Follow me on blockchain. We’re going to make the world’s money! ”
Street ladies to do blockchain 2018 passed, a few years down, blockchain only a chicken hair. I had a few friends in the company business marked blockchain, and quietly erase the word down, like P2P, today you say you are doing blockchain, easy to be regarded as a liar.
Why does blockchain have fire and ice? It’s quite simple. It’s an immature technology, but it’s been hailed to the sky by impatient humans.
To date, blockchain technology has only demonstrated its application value in virtual coins, and that is the success of a bitcoin, the others even Ethereum is not a success. Not to mention other applications?
Why is that? Those who preach that blockchain cannot be tampered with don’t tell you a basic fact. The so-called imdocility of blockchain needs to be realized in the ecology of a consensus mechanism. What do you mean “ecology”? It just has to be shared by a lot of people. If there are not enough people to participate in the formation of ecology, just a few blocks talk about what cannot be tampered with?
In the Bitcoin ecosystem, tamper-proof relies not on cryptography but on its long chain of consensus. This means that in the whole blockchain, only the chain that everyone has reached a long-term consensus is real and valid. If someone plugs into a malicious block and tries to tamper and break the chain into forks, sooner or later someone else in the ecosystem will recognize it and throw it away. The most common way to access the long-term consensus chain is to wait for six confirmations, that is, after six transactions of a blockchain, people will identify the authenticity and thus access the correct long-term consensus chain.
So blockchain technology won’t work without an ecosystem where many people agree. Then this “ecology” can not be formed by anyone. Bitcoin formed its own ecosystem is the right place at the right time and people. Why can’t it become a currency later? Is it technology? No! It’s hard to form an ecosystem where no one wants to play with you.
Like yesterday’s blockchain, today’s metaverse also needs to form an ecosphere, that is, a lot of individuals have to play together to form this metaverse, not just what technology you adopt to form the metaverse.
Facebook’s makeover of “Meta” is an ecosystem, and that’s Zach’s big ambition. And all around us, we see the concept of the meta-universe circling money.
And the group of people who are lecturing on the metaverse today are the same group of experts who lectured on blockchain yesterday.
