cslarson

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by cslarson 4y ago
It does not need to be more work. There is a default algo. Users can also opt for alternatives.
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by cslarson 4y ago
let people filter for themselves. someone is offended by pornography so chooses an algo that accounts for that, another is offended by anti-trans sentiment and another algo accounts for that. everyone should be more broadly free to speak bu
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by cslarson 4y ago
I don't think these anti free speech "examples" have the effect that people who cite them expect. Yet they are used a lot which points to a striking disconnect in communication.
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by cslarson 4y ago
Ha this is so well put, thank you. But it does surprise that so many technologists are falling into this trap (disregarding the innovation because of the plethora of junk it enables). The value of permission-less platforms and protocols sho
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by cslarson 4y ago
I think adding .eth fell out of favor after Brantly Milligan was fired from his job and banned from Twitter.
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by cslarson 4y ago
Many of these may have been dropped as a response to Brantly Milligan being fired/canceled/banned from Twitter. At least that's why mine is up there. Could do some analysis on dates to confirm/disprove.
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by cslarson 5y ago
they don't necessarily require ongoing maintenance, it depends how they are coded. some might even say the "correct" way is a non-upgradeable back-end (on-chain solidity contracts) and hash-addressed, ipfs hosted front-end. a
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by cslarson 5y ago
just curious where you get the 30% figure. usdc borrowing on aave is 2.83% right now, which is practically reduced a further 0.97% by the AAVE incentives. most other stablecoins are in the same region.
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by cslarson 5y ago
Andre is an innovator, both of protocols and token distribution methods. He invented the notion of a "fair launch" with YFI. Nobody was ever forced to interact with the contracts he published, they chose to. But of course he becam
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by cslarson 5y ago
Don't keep your backup fully available at your house for this reason. Figure out we way to split it up and distribute it, but with redundancy.
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by cslarson 5y ago
Yes you can get pretty far just signing stuff but without general availability of those attestations you are quite limited. That's a reasonable way to describe programmable blockchain - availability for these attestations.
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by cslarson 5y ago
The side effects may be horrible but almost certainly not in the naive way you imagine.
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by cslarson 5y ago
Not just currency but pretty much all financial services. I have blockchain based assets and have used an Ethereum based service to borrow against them to help buy a house. Tokens are an almost unimaginably large and general concept and wil
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by cslarson 5y ago
Agreed, this article highlights the important property (decentralized state) that programmable blockchain (web3/ethereum) provide and why that's needed to change the current power dynamics governing web activity.
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by cslarson 5y ago
Nothing really has surprised me more than how difficult it had been for a lot of you to understand what the value is here. It is a database with a new property: data and rules for manipulating data can be fixed. Yes inefficient in iops but
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by cslarson 5y ago
Researchers and devs have been and continue to work incredibly hard to ensure this stops being the case some time mid year 2022.
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by cslarson 5y ago
Current Ethereum is a non-scaling proof of concept. They kicked that can down the road, but the blueprint solution is now in and many of the components are built. The short of it is that with the modular approach to Blockchain scaling, more
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by cslarson 5y ago
This eip goes against everything you are claiming. It is pro-user and pro-scaling. The current eth mainnet was always essentially a proof of concept. Everyone knows the goal has been to find a scaling solution. L2s and rollups are that solu
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by cslarson 5y ago
Basically yes. If people on hn got their heads out of the sand they'd learn being in the space was pretty profitable because of all the incentives offered to users.
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by cslarson 5y ago
> it seems likely that many of the people who run large scale mining farms will just move to a different chain that they can still dedicate their GPUs to Not likely. Other chains do not have the economic incentives to support these ex-Et
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by cslarson 5y ago
And will end entirely in a few months.
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by cslarson 5y ago
FYI, $200 is the current bid on that nft and isn't accepted by the seller for obvious reasons. BoredApeYachtClub nfts have a floor price of 52.42 ETH on opensea so the 66 ETH price tag the seller has on it is likely more in ballpark. 5
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Sign-In with Ethereum(login.xyz)
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by cslarson 5y ago
Cryptocurrency (dumb term) just means token - it is a very broad concept. Tokens can have stable value pegged to a fiat, or represent share of a company, or a non-fungible item like a house, or a fungible share of a house, or claim on profi
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by cslarson 5y ago
they use https://localcryptos.com
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by cslarson 5y ago
DAO just means decentralised organisation. Like token , also a very generic term, it can come in many forms. There is nothing inherent about a DAO that even includes tokens, let alone tokens that are fungible or even acquirable.
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by cslarson 5y ago
> but IMO widespread adoption of platforms like Bitcoin and Ethereum will also lead to many new and terrible social problems So glad you said this - I've also been in the Ethereum community for a while and have significant trepidati
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by cslarson 5y ago
this tech will present many challenges. it could make many political problems much worse. but it is also unstoppable.
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by cslarson 5y ago
you are stuck on NFTs and Bitcoin then. many would agree that these don't hold fundamental value and worth debate. but does usdc on Ethereum have value - probably if you pay taxes. does a token representing a share of a house, or a lev
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by cslarson 5y ago
in the last 24hrs i, - funded an Afghan refugee friend in Turkey with ETH. they have no bank account. - joined a dao to bid on the last privately held copy of the US Constitution. - claimed an airdrop representing some control of a protocol

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