so what is the real world usage for EK at the very beginning?
Mining bitcoin and altcoin? scientific computation?
I'm sure EK has his vision for Elastic, but I don't personally feel Elastic will work for mining any other coins. Although it's more than capable of mining a block, each time the coins network updates it's block info, a new job would have to be submitted to Elastic....which would cause us to lag that blockchain considerably.
I would think the primary usage would be around scientific computation...solving complex problems that can be modeled in code.
Unlike EK, I'm still not convinced Elastic can't be used for rendering...I think we could come up with a model to support it, but that's not my call.
Recently, I saw a post about cracking passwords. I truly hope that Elastic won't be use for such purposes although it's more than capable of that. It's probably the main reason I'm leaving. I feel we've created a powerful system, but I really don't want to be part of something used for such negative purposes. When I started working on this, I saw the potential to help the scientific community.
I'm sure you have your reasons but Elastic is not something special in this regard. Almost every single
modern tech can be used to help bad guys achieve their goals. What really matters is how much good this particular tech can do in comparison. Bitcoin itself is a good example of such controversy.
Sure. But why only "modern tech"?
Going by the citation from beyinsi's post and continuing it: Bad guys use cars, bad guys use hammers, bad guys use pens, bad guys use books, they use pretty much everything good people use!
They use wheel after all, so what? Should the one who invented the wheel, go and shoot himself (
well, I should have told - "beat himself with stones", given the state of technology at that time ?
BTW, the scientific community you tell about - they also work on some tech, which could be used with bad intentions too. If we take such concerns seriously, we should stop any kind of scientific research, and either shoot all scientists or send them to far countryside to grow potatoes and other vegetables.
So, with all the due respect, coralreefer, your concerns above cannot be serious. I had similar concerns when I started in university, but then I realized its not the tech, its the people who use it. There could be some exceptions (like making weapons of mass destruction is probably immoral by any criteria), but Elastic is not like that.