Long term holder (bought in sub $10) but I am starting to doubt the need for a token. Why can't a major company like GOOGLE copy and paste LINK's code and make their own token? Do you really think they will spend millions of dollars on an oracle?
It was sub 10 like a month ago user. That doesn’t prove you’re a long term holder at all. I don’t consider anyone who got in above $4 a long term holder, it consolidated around $3-4 for like a year
Leo Bell
>Why can't a major company like GOOGLE copy and paste LINK's code and make their own token? they can, it's open source so they can do it and not even get sued it's that easy literally nothing is stopping them in developer lingo, it's simply called "a fork" if you're still holding with this knowledge, you deserve to get rekt
Hunter Green
Trust Sergey, he think of these things already. Chainlink is good token, safe pump only.
Nathaniel Myers
Facebook tried to do it, but you know what happened?
Take a guess.
Dylan Howard
>long term holder >sub 10 Weak bait
Sebastian Miller
>Why cannot x make their own operating system >Why cannot x just make their own x product
There is a reason why people use Windows, Linux, Microsoft, Apple etc and "don't just make their own" like you propose. Or use some weird and unknown alternative from China.
Chainlink is already becoming a standard.
James Ward
>long term holder >bought in sub 10
Dude, you realize some of us have been here since etherdelta days?
William Price
i dunno seems pretty effective so far
Nathaniel Fisher
The code for their operating systems are proprietary and not open source. Anyone could create their own LINK token. If Microsoft created their version of LINK then Chainlink will dump.
Adam Moore
Isn't tesla open source? Why ppl don't just copy em?
Motherfucker I bought in at like $7 a month and ahalf ago, and I wouldn't even consider myself a "long term holder." I'm a nulinker, but I've made good chunk of money so far, but don't consider yourself on par with the guys who bought into it when it was sub $1.
David Edwards
I mentioned Linux and it is open source and used even by The United States Department of Defense.
You are also not considering the network effect, even if Microsoft or some big player would start their own network, they have to build it from scratch, literally from zero. Chainlink already has an ecosystem to choose the feeds from and it is growing every day
There is the first mover advantage, industry standard considerations. Fuck this spoonfeeding, even the World Economic Forum blockchain projects are tweeting about Chainlink
First mover advantage is not worth billions of dollars. If Microsoft copied Chainlink's code there will be more nodes the next day. They can post a tweet to 9 million followers.
Ryan Thomas
then apple, then google, then amazon, and we’re back to square one with no universal oracle network and all these companies have blown millions for nothing
it’s ironically a product that a big company actually can’t create... all they can do is buy in like everybody else. Which is why Microsoft azure cryptlets are almost certainly just chainlink nodes
Juan Allen
Why would they waste their time, money, and resources on that when they can just use a bigger and already established network that the team developing the original software is maintaining?
Justin Peterson
Only long term holders are those who bought under 30 cents
Benjamin Perry
you have 36 ethereum price feeds, thats hardly a network to brag about
There is no point in explaining dumb shit like this to people. You are wasting your time.
Why do you go to the grocery store to buy apple when you can easily grow them on your own?
Austin Young
OP it doesn't work that way in business. It's really expensive either way. Huge businesses already uses other companies products, including open source software. IF they need customization, they will fork it. But many times, specially on versatile tools like Chainlink, they don't fork it. It's not as easy as it sounds.
There is huge Forbes top 100 companies already using open source software and stuff like Laravel, cpanel, Drupal, Docker, Wordpress, Magento,
Technically they CAN create their own forked version but why, when there is products meeting their exact requirements And is actively being used and developed. Forking and modifying would mean much higher cost and time.
Angel White
Coinbase and Binance uses ID verification solutions such as Jumio and Onfido, although closed source, it's simpler that way.
Technically they can develop their own onboarding solution or hire an officer to verify all posts. But again, would it be worth it? Probably not, and that's why they dont.
Alexander Peterson
>why would you do the minimal one time effort to fork a small protocol with no complexity when you could pay recurring payments to internet retards for eternity
Noah Harris
>There is huge Forbes top 100 companies already using open source software and stuff like Laravel, cpanel, Drupal, Docker, Wordpress, Magento none of these require a recurring fee for every single action you undertake using said software
Matthew Campbell
Some shitcoin , do not inquire further
Anthony Adams
>He's never even heard of delphi
Eli Mitchell
so this worth 20 dollars a token? this action?
Evan Sanders
And you think the cost and time to devote another task would be worth it over using a distributed ledger? You do realize how much constrain on time and how much each hour costs at big companies like Google?
If you are a freelance coder who do nothing but jerk off on your spare time it would be worth it but for them, probably not unless they needed a custom solution.
In the end, sometimes, they develop their own but for a start or to test, they don't. One of the most common software to subscribe to for a lifetime is security based software such as Cloudflare (which they can develop on their own if they want to), imperva or incapsula (again, any company can create these functionality).
Christian Ward
>long term holder >sub 10 dollars Hahahahahaha what a fucking retard