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by monokh 10mo ago
And in fact they did just this when their vaults started bleeding money on an unfavourable position (JellyJelly). They handed out a closed source binary and the validators ran it immediately, closing out the market at an arbitrary price.
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by monokh 10mo ago
Hyperliquid being on chain in the traditional sense is fiction. You have a closed source piece of software run by closely controlled "validators" with additionally centralised components.
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CVE-2023-50428 Bitcoin inscriptions are a bug(nvd.nist.gov)
5 points by monokh 3y ago|1 comments
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Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher’s Stoner Cats NFTs Must Sober Up, SEC Orders(theverge.com)
2 points by monokh 3y ago|1 comments
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by monokh 4y ago
I think you would be surprised just how close to this depth of field look you can get with phone cameras these days. Its mostly digitally enhanced but it takes a real good eye to tell the difference.
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Explore messages stored on the Bitcoin blockchain(opreturn.monokh.com)
2 points by monokh 5y ago|0 comments
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Uniswap from Scratch(monokh.com)
4 points by monokh 5y ago|0 comments
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by monokh 5y ago
Slightly off topic: Is the git frontend [1] open source? If not, are there some very light self hosting ones like it? [1] https://thelig.ht/code/
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by monokh 5y ago
The Collection: https://rarible.com/twitter?tab=created License: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5I6YHGXoAYcat0?format=jpg&name=...
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Twitter Mints NFTs(twitter.com)
3 points by monokh 5y ago|2 comments
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Bitcoin Is Going to the Moon(moonb.tc)
1 points by monokh 5y ago|0 comments
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by monokh 5y ago
It doesn't by itself, but it's a much better start. You can simply match up addresses with activity from other digital systems. That link is present in a global, transparent, up to the minute, cheap to ingest data source (the bloc
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by monokh 5y ago
Do you see any reason why the GBA couldn't perform the role of a hardware wallet? Secure element excluded of course.
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by monokh 5y ago
A cryptocurrency is generally more easily spendable in an open market. The sell potential that a founder has with 75% of the supply is massive. If I created a coin today and sold 1% of the supply to you alone, on what basis would you want t
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by monokh 5y ago
I can't remember the last time I could use paper cash. Beyond your daily groceries, everything is usually exclusively paid for digitally. Surveillance on daily spends is not valuable. What's valuable is things connected to your id
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by monokh 5y ago
Transacting the coin itself rarely has any energy footprint. It's the security of the network that requires the mining and that is very separate to signal using it. Unless the idea is that by using another coin, they don't add to
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Liquality Adds New 1-Click Pay Feature, Looks Toward Bitcoin DeFi(coindesk.com)
1 points by monokh 5y ago|0 comments
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by monokh 6y ago
This is so great to see. One of the big issues with IPFS was that ultimately the end users were mostly using public http gateways and not contributing by "pinning" the content. That is not distributed and therefore as centralized
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by monokh 6y ago
> A common defense in favor of Signal is, “But it’s all open source!”. Sure is, but on what basis do I trust them? ... The open source aspect for me means 2 things. - I can verify the e2e encryption claim. - I can reproduce the client bu
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by monokh 6y ago
What I struggle to understand is why the capital can be used with no fee (dydx - 2 wei). Why would someone contribute to such a pool that pays no interest as opposed to staking or lending somewhere else?
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by monokh 6y ago
This practice is called "Brand bidding" and is actually extremely common among competitors. Occasionally companies will mutually agree to not participate. It's actually surprising why it's not perceived to be more hostil
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US Federal Regulator Says Banks Can Conduct Payments Using Stablecoins(coindesk.com)
17 points by monokh 6y ago|2 comments
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by monokh 6y ago
I took 5 seconds to verify my balance and 5 more seconds to share this with you: https://btc.monokh.com/address/tb1qfapwkjkhe5vh592ypym6qj8k5... In just about every way, digital bitcoin proofs are better than art colle
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DeFi protocol Cover exploited, attackers minted at least 40 quintillion tokens(theblockcrypto.com)
2 points by monokh 6y ago|0 comments
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by monokh 6y ago
An asset being speculated on does not rule that it does not have inherent value. Every asset has a speculative component, just look at the stock market. > The beauty of a fiat currency is that you can maintain it's value simply by a
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by monokh 6y ago
Should we take this approach, there would be nothing left, including the internet on which we conversate here. There were these exact arguments present against it. It's unfortunate but the reality is that every advancement in society c
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by monokh 6y ago
We've seen wikileaks deplatformed and there are many more instances that don't come with a legal power. Not hard to imagine the same happening to "a platform promoting dangerous misinformation" as is the justification fr
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by monokh 6y ago
That neutral money and banking system exists today. It's Bitcoin. There are caveats but fundamentally if fulfills this purpose.
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Show HN: Nakamoto – Simple Bitcoin invoice and payment handling library(github.com)
2 points by monokh 6y ago|0 comments
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by monokh 6y ago
Bitcoin doesn't appreciate on news. It's not a company and it doesn't necessarily have a product that is being constantly worked on. There is the odd software upgrade every few years but the core function never changes. The v

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