The metaverse doesn’t have any use case.
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I’ve seen a post today saying that the metaverse has a use case now. I totally disagree: the main argument was there’s no need for the visitor to be physically located in an office to provide their signatures. We can already do this:
uploading scans or photos of signed documents on a secure platform (I did that for approving to a real estate loan) using digitally enhanced identification like the EU passport to sign online (real estate loan part 2) digitally sign documents using your phone (I did that for registering at an exchange) just putting your scanned signature in a PDF (for less important documents) using forms on a secure platform (at the school where I’m working at, nobody has to bring in signed documents anymore – except school reports)
If you can get a loan over 200k+ € without going into an office even once, you definitely don’t need a virtual skyscraper where we have to walk in using WASD on our keyboards and draw a lousy ticket. They are importing the downsides of the real world into the virtual world.
This is what the office looks like:
Even worse: carrying around a shopping cart talking to bots for online shopping. Yes, all these wine bottles look the same.
Thanks for reading my rant. I’m just tired of seeing the metaverse desperately looking for a problem to solve. We don’t need tokens for handing in documents or buying wine.
I can see a lot of use cases for crypto in general though, just look at Reddit avatars which add a lot of fun and exitement to the community. We can transfer money for cheap and have bank accounts that are impossible to be frozen. We have Defi. And there will be more. Maybe even sports tickets, even though I don’t see the Necessity right now.
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