Payments on the Solid Framework

Okay I'll bite. I've worked in both retail and corporate banking for over a decade. I've been responsible for software that processes large payments and receipts daily. I've cloned a few cryptocurrencies for fun and have a pretty good understanding of them. I cannot understand anything on this entire site. Does anybody know what this is all about?

The solid infrastructure looks promising to me. Based on the other submission today on Solid[1], there are varying opinions on whether it will take off and really be able to challenge the big social media.<p>However, I think we _need to want_ this to succeed, even if there are other ideas of what decentralised architectures should look like.<p>It may not be the best system to everyone, but it has some clout with Tim Berners-Lee behind it and its architecture and capabilities can -and will- evolve. It looks to me like our best chance to start &#x27;disrupting&#x27; the current status-quo, even if it flies under the radar for a while.<p>I can imagine an Instagram-like app that would let me import a take-out archive from my Instagram account and just let me continue where I left off. Maybe I would need to rebuild a user-base, but that&#x27;s OK, there would be new people on that platform and and more control over what I want to see, rather than some ad-optimized algorithm deciding for me.<p>A payment systems built on top could allow direct monetisation for content-creators without having to go through a 3rd party that enforces arbitrary rules over what content gets and doesn&#x27;t get monetized.<p>[1]:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18100895" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18100895</a>

2nd solid post today and despite being familiar with the concepts I don’t understand any of the detail.<p>Marketing spiel is fine but somewhere concrete details need to be provided without the BS. Very disappointing that Tim Berners-Lee would be associated with something so poorly expressed.

The web 1.0 was a success because it was simple. I don’t understand anything about Solid.

Read about Solid yesterday and was super fascinated by the idea of Pods and since am solving a payment solution, I saw it would be a kickass solution for payments.Now solidPay is out but sadly it&#x27;s confusing, how do I begin implementing it

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One of the basic ideas of a ledger is that once a transaction has been added, it can not be removed or changed.

No https redirect on signup or login. That worries me.

It is pretty interesting and kinda disappointing to see renowned tech luminaries hopping on the hype train left and right.

Oh and ‘add your producst’. I’m out.