Re: Ring Confidential Transactions or Soda Vending Machine?
I am patiently waiting for arguments about how Dash N Drink soda machines will change the world. Has all the vending machine excitement from Miami died off already?
Outside this forum very few people have any clue what the heck is a Ring Confidential Transaction, however everybody knows what's a Soda Vending Machine
. This is what I used to tell you guys since ages; even if you have the best freakin' awesome technology on the Earth, it will have little value if only a handful people knows about it, (in addition only small part of that handful knows what they are talking about) .Saying that people need to know about something (or understand it) in order to use it or want it is a pretty ridiculous statement and here are some examples why:
Would you rather have a soda machine or https?
Would you rather have a cabbage or a 4-d printer?
Would you rather have a paper plane or MS HoloLens?
People don't need to understand a thing (or even know what it initially is) to want it more than something that's been around for decades--one youtube video can demonstrate enough of what it is and show the consumer what it does, the latter being the more important quality for most people.
And lets not skew what the question really is: would you rather have a non-private digital payment process (that already exist for credit cards) or an already more private process that has been augmented by confidential transactions?
Dash didn't invent soda machines that accept digital payments, they just managed to turn one into a billboard.