30 sats \ 0 replies \ @faithandcredit 25 Jun 2022
This is great. It has that web3 vibe except this might actually be scalable. I wish them all the best.
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @032451224c 26 Jun 2022 freebie
ArcadeCity was announced on 2016 as an Ethereum Dapp, raised a bunch of money and never delivered. Then rebranded as Swarm.city, raised another ICO and failed again.
Now ArcadeCity is back once more reshaped as a bitcoin-only app.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201108113812/https://medium.com/@CTUAgentIvan/arcade-city-is-a-scam-98c22c557f18
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @premitive1 26 Jun 2022
Good luck.
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20 sats \ 6 replies \ @om 26 Jun 2022
The delivery service is both desperately needed and very dangerous, because people will start using it for drugs, and then police will be very interested in this whole affair. Bitcoiners who just want to have their food delivered will have to fight off both goverments and drug dealers, and this is going to be difficult.
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26 sats \ 1 reply \ @premitive1 26 Jun 2022
how in your model do bitcoiners end up fighting off drug dealers?
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @om 26 Jun 2022
I didn't mean that bitcoiners have to give them a shooting battle. I mean that bitcoiners would either have to embrace them or (more likely) tell the drivers to only deliver packages that look like normal consumer goods. Which will make the drug dealers invent ways for drugs to look like normal consumer goods. And then the police will be very annoyed again.
I'd guess we'll get less hassle from farmers' market sort of events.
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20 sats \ 3 replies \ @thrown 26 Jun 2022
how does the postal service solve the problem of drugs being mailed? genuinely i am not sure how they avoid it
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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @om 27 Jun 2022
They subject all packages to x-rays and chemical tests that random drivers have no way whatsoever to perform. Delivery companies (yes, the world outside US has them) do that sort of thing too.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @thrown 27 Jun 2022
seems like that would make the whole system incredibly inefficient and could even damage items, but if it is true, there is no reason something similar couldn't be implemented in a p2p model.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @om 27 Jun 2022
Incredibly inefficient, exactly. Then we lose to normal grocery delivery services because they don't have to do anything like the postal service does.
This is why I don't believe a pure p2p replacement of a postal service is feasible, but it should be possible to tell a random driver to buy a kilo of tomatos in a random supermarket and deliver it. This is subpar because we'd like the supplier to use bitcoin too.
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