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by benmdi 4y ago
Fun quick read. Scary part to me is that this seems like something that could actually happen pretty easily.
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Umbra – Privacy Preserving Stealth Payments on the Ethereum Blockchain(scopelift.co)
3 points by benmdi 6y ago|0 comments
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The Internet's Reserve Currency(buildblockchain.tech)
2 points by benmdi 6y ago|0 comments
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by benmdi 6y ago
> You can't be tied to the dollar without backing your coin with dollars. Not exactly. There are projects like Maker and sUSD which create synthetic dollar equivalents via collateralization with native crypto assets. (Caveat here, M
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Could the US Dollar Be Crypto's Killer App?(buildblockchain.tech)
28 points by benmdi 6y ago|32 comments
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An exploration of MakerDAO’s governance incentives(scopelift.co)
50 points by benmdi 7y ago|18 comments
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by benmdi 7y ago
Based on recent events, I'm sure this will be well received...
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by benmdi 7y ago
Well said. Exactly right.
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by benmdi 7y ago
Some general backend and web work, and some blockchain stuff as well. The latter is the opposite set of tradeoffs. Completely permissionless, but lots of riff-raff and scammy nonsense going on.
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by benmdi 7y ago
Yeah, I agree. I hope the legal system forces Apple to allow opt-in third party app stores. Would go a long way towards alleviating these kinds of situations.
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by benmdi 7y ago
Those situations are in no way comparable. It's wild to me you think they are. No one is saying they are responsible for promoting your app. What we're saying is that if they're going to lock down their platform so that you c
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by benmdi 7y ago
This is just another way of saying "Apple doesn't give a f*ck about indie developers." Might be true, but it's still shitty.
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by benmdi 7y ago
That's a BS answer, and if it's the one Apple wants to give, then they should not be surprised when they 1) are seen by devs as a unattractive platform to build a business on 2) Get treated like a monopolist in courts.
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by benmdi 7y ago
Generally I agree, though this App does have a broad enough market that it could probably be sold as sustainably as a one-time upgrade for years without exhausting the potential, especially if it's a one man project.
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by benmdi 7y ago
Interesting thoughts. Not sure what the developer could have done differently, here? The App is published on Apple's Platform, and it's impossible for him to distribute outside the store. He has been working on it for years, been
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by benmdi 7y ago
>It seems likely Apple has downrated the phrase "weight loss" altogether. What makes you say that?
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by benmdi 7y ago
Wow. I literally use this App every single day. I think it was $5 and I have gotten enormous value from it for 3+ years. Sad that what is probably a random glitch on Apple's part can just kill a person's livelihood overnight. I us
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Radical Markets: The Good, the Bad, and the Blockchain(buildblockchain.tech)
1 points by benmdi 8y ago|0 comments
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Ethereum Security, Block Rewards, and GPU Availability(buildblockchain.tech)
1 points by benmdi 8y ago|0 comments
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Ethereum, Proof-Of-Stake, and the “Free Hard Fork” Problem(buildblockchain.tech)
2 points by benmdi 8y ago|0 comments
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Transaction Agnosticism: A Path to Cryptocurrency Mass Adoption(hackernoon.com)
1 points by benmdi 8y ago|0 comments
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A Developer's Guide to Running a Bitcoin Full Node and Local Block Explorer(buildblockchain.tech)
5 points by benmdi 8y ago|0 comments
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The Two Views of Crypto: Sound Money vs. Global Computer(buildblockchain.tech)
8 points by benmdi 8y ago|0 comments
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What If We're Wrong? Steelmanning the Case Against Crypto(buildblockchain.tech)
5 points by benmdi 8y ago|1 comments
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by benmdi 8y ago
Thanks for your thoughts- yes you seem to have grokked the point of my article. It's as much an exhortation for the Bitcoin community to build the vision of the world it wants, not to blindly assume it will arrive!
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Against Narrow Minded Bitcoin Maximalism(buildblockchain.tech)
2 points by benmdi 8y ago|2 comments
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Do we need a blockchain to be decentralized?
2 points by benmdi 8y ago|1 comments
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Apple Has the Incentives, Values, and Tech to Bring Blockchain Mainstream(buildblockchain.tech)
2 points by benmdi 8y ago|0 comments
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Gitcoin Is a Rarity: A Blockchain DApp with Actual Usage(medium.com)
3 points by benmdi 8y ago|0 comments
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by benmdi 8y ago
Haha, no I was in this universe, and am old enough to have participated in that era as well ;) I think it's pretty clear, though, that both the quantity and quality of open source software has increased drastically in the last decade o

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