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by buckie 5y ago
Does anyone know where the actual latest design for ETH 2.0 sharding is? Whitepaper/repo because w/o sharding you can't scale layer 1, and if you don't scale layer 1, you can't address layer 1 gas costs. I've a
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by buckie 5y ago
I can't cite that example, I just have a friend whose parents are there tell me a story about how they were saying how pretty the snow flurries were and how he had to inform them about how ominous it was for there to be snow there. It&
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by buckie 5y ago
One of my current concerns is that the demonization of climate scientists over the last 30 years has resulted in models that underestimate the timelines of how bad things get. Not an intentional conspiracy or anything, just a systemic natur
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by buckie 5y ago
I looked into it. It is next to impossible to get. It doesn't take a crazy amount of money to get it, but from what I've experienced it looks like it takes a ton of wealth + the right connections + Albany politics. And that was
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by buckie 5y ago
> but pointing to a factory that pollutes because you buy their products and want their product cheaply is equally inane Agreed, but I'm not pointing at the factories. Consumers _can't_ lobby congress or control the media narra
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by buckie 5y ago
Welcome to climate change in the 21st century, where we'll be outraged/distracted by everything but how ~100 companies are responsible for 70% of global emissions[1]. Today we’ll be talking about evil terrorism enabling cryptocu
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by buckie 5y ago
There is an example of directly scaling PoW that's been in prod for 1.5 years now: https://explorer.chainweb.com/mainnet Instead of having X PH of PoW difficulty for a single blockchain, you have N parallel blockchains
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by buckie 6y ago
Not totally sure, but maybe this book? Fun read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Fifteen_Lives_of_Har...
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by buckie 6y ago
> These aren't street dealers. It's an organized, carefully designed, well-oiled machine. How does this machine work? How does it survive the loss of so many members? Narconomics[1] has a pretty good discussion of the economics
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by buckie 8y ago
The problem with Proof of Work is that it is too inefficient and not that it consumes too much energy. If bitcoin could do 100k transactions per second globally, no one would be talking about Proof of Stake. We'd be talking about: h
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by buckie 8y ago
SWITH gpi was announced in 2015, piloted in 2016, and incorporated a blockchain PoC in 2017[1]. While only SWIFT knows if cryptocurrency was part of the conversation at the start, I'd be surprised if it didn't at least come up ver
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by buckie 8y ago
She is. I had the pleasure of working with her on in the distributed ledger tech working group (back when it was still the cryptocurrency working group) when she founded it in 2013. At the time, I was the lead eng for one of the SEC's
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by buckie 8y ago
Or you can just use graph theory to make PoW efficient & more secure[1][2]. Skip to page 11 of [1] for a quick visual summary. [1] http://kadena.io/docs/chainweb.pdf [2] https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by buckie 8y ago
Is one of them Juno? https://github.com/kadena-io/juno . If so, I was lead eng on it so let me know if you have any questions. FYI we're hiring haskell devs to work on our private consensus layer (based off of Juno
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by buckie 8y ago
It's a fair read, the private blockchain market is underserved/misserved by the "widely" used platforms (IBM Fabric/R3 Corda). The thing that most everyone misses (including IBM and R3) is that the point of a privat
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by buckie 9y ago
They also have different scaling tradeoffs as they scale really well (the graph can be arbitrarily wide as tx's can run in parallel) when most transactions are causally unrelated but hit bottlenecks with every "killer app" th
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by buckie 9y ago
Kadena | Software Engineer | REMOTE, ONSITE (Brooklyn, NY) | Full-Time $80k-$150k + Coin and/or Equity Kadena is seeking Haskell engineers to join our team either in Brooklyn or remote. Kadena ( http://kadena.io ) is a tech-f
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Chainweb: A Proof-Of-Work Parallel-Chain Architecture for Massive Throughput [pdf](kadena.io)
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by buckie 9y ago
> I predict that 10 years from now normal relational databases have infrastructure for shared, authenticated and verified rows and columns Agreed, though with the caveat that this is for transactional systems closer to the settlement&#x2
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by buckie 9y ago
If we're listing smart contract languages, Pact is worth looking at. Check the demo contracts in the web editor for `Hello World`: kadena.io/try-pact ;; Simulate message data specifying an administrator keyset. ;; In produc
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by buckie 9y ago
You should check out Kadena's FOSS Pact[1] smart contract language as well. Though it currently only runs on our (disclosure: am co-founder) high-performance private blockchain stack we're prepping it for use on a public blockchai
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by buckie 9y ago
Preface: lead for Juno & ScalableBFT First, some additional benchmarks: * Juno (w/ hardcoded language): 500 tx/s * TendermintBFT w/ EVM: 1k tx/s * ScalableBFT w/ Pact: 8k tx/s The thing about the high-perfo
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by buckie 9y ago
For skeptics like this, I've had success bringing up the history of paper money and point out how it took ~250yrs for the idea that money was the medium of exchange to take over (1705 with John Law to Nixon taking the US off the gold s
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by buckie 9y ago
I had a long discussion about this topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14807779 > I think this is very inaccurate. Perhaps, though keep in mind I did say that it is "[the odds that this code has a serio
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by buckie 9y ago
> The validators are known, so any risk of a 51% attack arising from some miner collusion in China does not apply. That's just wrong. Dangerously so. Maybe I'm just missing something in his protocol spec and he didn't real
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by buckie 9y ago
First, the pact paper needs to get updated to reflect the changes we made for the shift to public. For example, modules used to only be guarded by keysets (Pact doesn't have a notion of single-sig only constructs, anything using a sig
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by buckie 9y ago
### FV Resources These are few and far between. My paper on it is soup to nuts for how we do it in Pact which, while technical, should be somewhat approachable for most devs to grasp (I tried at least -- representing a program as equations
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by buckie 9y ago
No need to forgive. You're not wrong nor naive. I'd pin the difference as one of personal risk tolerances. I have much less than you, that's all. Right now Solidity is the only choice of public smart contracts. All I meant be
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by buckie 9y ago
This project is simultaneously a great example of the democratizing effect of Ethereum while also being truly terrifying. A Stanford '17 grad with a few internships worth of industry experience is able to create and deploy a peer-to-pe
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by buckie 9y ago
> That the auditing missed the bug doesn't prove... Honest question, what would be required in your opinion for before we start considering if the tool is at fault? I ask because, if you're of the opinion that it's never t

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