(3) declaring the impact certificates not burned and allowing people some time to export their data.
That could make it easier for another team to create a new impact market that will seamlessly replace the impact market that is being shut down.
My original idea from summer 2021 was to use blockchain technology simply for technical ease of implementation (I wouldn’t have had to write any code). That would’ve made the certs random tokens among millions of others on the blockchain. But then to set up a centralized, curated marketplace for them with a smart and EA curation team.
[…]
But what do you think about the original idea? I don’t think it’s so different from a fully centralized solution where you allow people to export their data or at least not prevent them from copy-pasting their certs and ledgers to back them up.
If a decentralized impact market gains a lot of traction, I don’t see how the certificates being “tokens among millions of others” helps. A particular curated gallery can end up being ignored by some/most market participants (and perhaps be outcompeted by another, less scrupulous curated gallery).
Allowing people to make backups: You’d rather make it as hard as possible to make backups, e.g., by using anti-screenscraping tools and maybe hiding some information about the ledger in the first place so people can’t easily back it up.
Web3: Seems about as bad as any web2 solution that allows people to easily back up their data.
Web3: Seems about as bad as any web2 solution that allows people to easily back up their data.
I think that a decentralized impact market that can’t be controlled or shut down seems worse. Also, a Web3 platform will make it less effortful for someone to launch a competing platform (either with or without the certificates from the original platform).
That could make it easier for another team to create a new impact market that will seamlessly replace the impact market that is being shut down.
If a decentralized impact market gains a lot of traction, I don’t see how the certificates being “tokens among millions of others” helps. A particular curated gallery can end up being ignored by some/most market participants (and perhaps be outcompeted by another, less scrupulous curated gallery).
Okay, but to keep the two points separate:
Allowing people to make backups: You’d rather make it as hard as possible to make backups, e.g., by using anti-screenscraping tools and maybe hiding some information about the ledger in the first place so people can’t easily back it up.
Web3: Seems about as bad as any web2 solution that allows people to easily back up their data.
Is that about right?
I think that a decentralized impact market that can’t be controlled or shut down seems worse. Also, a Web3 platform will make it less effortful for someone to launch a competing platform (either with or without the certificates from the original platform).