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by nicksdjohnson 5y ago
Thanks!
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by nicksdjohnson 5y ago
https://at.amulet.garden/
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by nicksdjohnson 5y ago
This one is incredible! I've minted it so nobody else can grab it. If you have an Ethereum account, let me know your address so I can transfer it to you.
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by nicksdjohnson 5y ago
1T is a huge overcompensation. If you take Ethereum's estimated daily carbon output and divide it by its daily gas units (the unit by which computation is measured) and assign responsiblity that way, minting an Amulet consumes about 20
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by nicksdjohnson 9y ago
Speaking as an Ethereum core developer here - I see a lot of misdirected criticism and misunderstandings of Ethereum and the platform in the wider tech community. That said, your criticisms here are absolutely spot on; these are definite is
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by nicksdjohnson 9y ago
Okay, I'll bite. What's 'centralised' about Ethereuem, without twisting the word beyond all recognition?
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by nicksdjohnson 9y ago
You seem to have very (some would say ridiculously) high standards for 'decentralised'. If the root multisig was deleted, would it be 'decentralised' in your book? > It claims it is a decentralised naming system, thou
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by nicksdjohnson 9y ago
What's centralised about ENS? Also, it can be used to resolve any resource you want - although you're shifting the goalposts, since that wasn't originally a requirement.
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by nicksdjohnson 9y ago
> There is not one single dapp that is decentralised and working. Sure there is. ENS, for one example. Plenty of gambling apps for another (I don't find them particularly _compelling_, but they are there and they do work)
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by nicksdjohnson 9y ago
Censorship resistance isn't the main thing that blockchains enable; trustlessness is. If you host them on your own SQL database, people have to trust that you're acting honestly.
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by nicksdjohnson 9y ago
In all seriousness, you should lurk in the Ethereum subreddit instead. We have our share of cheerleaders who take the black and white "this good, that bad" position without evidence, but they're not dominant, and we have a fa
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by nicksdjohnson 9y ago
But you can reason about what any possible transaction can do by reasoning about all possible inputs to your code; you don't need to know anything about how other contracts were written, since even if they are formally provable, they c
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by nicksdjohnson 9y ago
If you want to know what a given transaction will do, you can simply run it locally; no need for formal analysis. Formal analysis is useful for proving properties about your program like "the total balance will always equal the sum of
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by nicksdjohnson 9y ago
I don't think I follow - why would you need to reason about your callers' internal states in order to prove properties about your own contract?
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by nicksdjohnson 9y ago
But that's completely beside the point: the point is that you can't have the libertarian-utopia-chain without also getting the hacker-got-away-with-his-loot chain.
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by nicksdjohnson 9y ago
Sure it does - the marvelous thing about a turing-complete virtual machine is that you can write a decidable language that compiles to EVM bytecode.
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by nicksdjohnson 9y ago
I agree "smart contract" is a poor term, but they're way more than "conditional payment" - you can do a lot of things with them that have nothing to do with paying money.
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by nicksdjohnson 9y ago
> And my point was that if you look at ETH/ETC, the market is saying that they feel more comfortable with a known, trusted authority (i.e. small group of developers with trademarks and a conference schedule) than they do with true d
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by nicksdjohnson 9y ago
> 1. The halting problem states you can't predict what a turing complete program will do, until you run it. This means to some degree, that you can't predict what your "smart" contract will do, until it does it. Thus
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by nicksdjohnson 9y ago
Also, neither system's proof of work is based on NP-hard problems.
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by nicksdjohnson 10y ago
Every single Ethereum dev I know - and pretty nearly everyone else in the community - owns far more ETH than they do DAO, if they own any DAO at all. So this 'explanation', which I see over and over again, just doesn't scan:
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Books that think (and play Hangman)(arachnidlabs.com)
1 points by nicksdjohnson 11y ago|0 comments
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Tsunami, an Arduino-based signal generator and analog experimenter's kit(kickstarter.com)
11 points by nicksdjohnson 12y ago|0 comments
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by nicksdjohnson 13y ago
Hard as it may be to believe, there's a difference between things that don't interest you personally and things that are junk. And the existence of things that don't interest you somewhere does not automatically mean that eve
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by nicksdjohnson 13y ago
Really? I see: A DIY weather station kit that feeds its data to the Raspberry Pi: https://www.tindie.com/products/tmhrtly/airpi-kit/ DIY Amplifiers: https://www.tindie.com/products/diyour
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by nicksdjohnson 13y ago
Thanks for the thought. We don't accept donations, but if you like any of the stuff we sell on Tindie ( https://www.tindie.com/stores/arachnidlabs/ ), feel free to buy it!
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by nicksdjohnson 13y ago
VIDs and PIDs are 16 bits, not 8.
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by nicksdjohnson 13y ago
It's signed "Executive Director"; regardless of their internal organisation, it's a statement from USB-IF.
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by nicksdjohnson 13y ago
tl;dr: You've set up the challenge in such a way that demonstrating any of the threat models against which client side crypto is weak would require compromising other layers of security first that are out of scope for the challenge.
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by nicksdjohnson 13y ago
The word was 'contrite'. You didn't set a time limit on your contest.

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