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Are you telling us that one of the most popular cryptocurrency projects on the face of the planet which has access to thousands of the so-called 'brightest engi

Are you telling us that one of the most popular cryptocurrency projects on the face of the planet which has access to thousands of the so-called 'brightest engineering minds' on the planet, after over 5 years, with billions of $ of funding at its disposal, has managed to make a minuscule change to its fee system? Wow, they're truly outdone themselves. What an exceptional team. I wonder how many Ethereum developers it takes to change a lightbulb...

miracle2k 5y ago
Many changes have been made, including a major upgrade to the fee system, with changes needing buy-in from many stakeholders. This is a network responsible for billions of dollars in value Or maybe it's monopoly money, but critics always like to have it both ways, don't they. It's real when poor victims are losing it, but fake otherwise. It's all pretend, except when something goes wrong, then the teams running it are suddenly irresponsible.
- cryptica 5y ago
  Nothing ever goes wrong. A multi-million dollar hack is called a 'minor hiccup.' Missing a deadline by 5% of an entire lifetime is called 'a small delay' or 'a misunderstanding'. If they deliver within 10 generations, they will call it 'a resounding success, exceeding our wildest estimates.'
capableweb 5y ago
I think you vastly underestimate the difficulty on running a global network like that, with multiple parties who almost all have different goals and motivations. I thought HN was supposed to be better than that. Changing the tweet length on Twitter is hardly just changing the column limit, there is so much more work behind the scenes. At least with Ethereum you could (if you're interested, doesn't seem like you are) see all the changes they had to go through in order to get that change on the network.
- cryptica 5y ago
  Total BS. I'm a blockchain developer and I worked on a project worth half a billion $ and we made far bigger changes than that in less than 2 years... With a far smaller team... Without even a single 'rock star developer'. Either Ethereum devs are the dimmest minds in the industry or there is something seriously wrong at the foundational level of the Ethereum code itself.
  - capableweb 5y ago
    > I'm a blockchain developer Welcome to the club :) > I worked on a project worth half a billion $ Wow! > With a far smaller team... There you go! Of course it's easier to change stuff when the scale is smaller. The difficulty of implementing something scales with the number of people working on it. If you're just one person (or a small team), changes are easy to work through. But if you're 100+ developers, multiple foundations and also private companies, even changes that are small will take a long time to go through the process. > Either Ethereum devs are the dimmest minds in the industry or there is something seriously wrong at the foundational level of the Ethereum code itself. Taking long time to change the core protocol is by design (it's a feature, not a bug), so everything is working correctly.
    - cryptica 5y ago
      > Taking long time to change the core protocol is by design (it's a feature, not a bug), so everything is working correctly. In that case, I hope it takes over 100 years to implement sharding, then at least the suckers who invested in Ethereum will rest in peace knowing that at least it met their decentralization needs after some other project has taken over the world.
      - capableweb 5y ago
        Again you seem to not fully understand how things work, and you also seem to wanting to read my comments in the worst possible light. I never said it's designed to take as long time as possible to get out changes, I said it's designed to take long time. But hey, you've already made up your mind so there seems to be little to no value of us even talking with each other.
landemva 5y ago
Yep, Cardano can't get things running after years being flush with cash.

miracle2k 5y ago

Many changes have been made, including a major upgrade to the fee system, with changes needing buy-in from many stakeholders. This is a network responsible for billions of dollars in value Or maybe it's monopoly money, but critics always like to have it both ways, don't they. It's real when poor victims are losing it, but fake otherwise. It's all pretend, except when something goes wrong, then the teams running it are suddenly irresponsible.

cryptica 5y ago
Nothing ever goes wrong. A multi-million dollar hack is called a 'minor hiccup.' Missing a deadline by 5% of an entire lifetime is called 'a small delay' or 'a misunderstanding'. If they deliver within 10 generations, they will call it 'a resounding success, exceeding our wildest estimates.'

capableweb 5y ago

I think you vastly underestimate the difficulty on running a global network like that, with multiple parties who almost all have different goals and motivations. I thought HN was supposed to be better than that. Changing the tweet length on Twitter is hardly just changing the column limit, there is so much more work behind the scenes. At least with Ethereum you could (if you're interested, doesn't seem like you are) see all the changes they had to go through in order to get that change on the network.

cryptica 5y ago
Total BS. I'm a blockchain developer and I worked on a project worth half a billion $ and we made far bigger changes than that in less than 2 years... With a far smaller team... Without even a single 'rock star developer'. Either Ethereum devs are the dimmest minds in the industry or there is something seriously wrong at the foundational level of the Ethereum code itself.
- capableweb 5y ago
  > I'm a blockchain developer Welcome to the club :) > I worked on a project worth half a billion $ Wow! > With a far smaller team... There you go! Of course it's easier to change stuff when the scale is smaller. The difficulty of implementing something scales with the number of people working on it. If you're just one person (or a small team), changes are easy to work through. But if you're 100+ developers, multiple foundations and also private companies, even changes that are small will take a long time to go through the process. > Either Ethereum devs are the dimmest minds in the industry or there is something seriously wrong at the foundational level of the Ethereum code itself. Taking long time to change the core protocol is by design (it's a feature, not a bug), so everything is working correctly.
  - cryptica 5y ago
    > Taking long time to change the core protocol is by design (it's a feature, not a bug), so everything is working correctly. In that case, I hope it takes over 100 years to implement sharding, then at least the suckers who invested in Ethereum will rest in peace knowing that at least it met their decentralization needs after some other project has taken over the world.
    - capableweb 5y ago
      Again you seem to not fully understand how things work, and you also seem to wanting to read my comments in the worst possible light. I never said it's designed to take as long time as possible to get out changes, I said it's designed to take long time. But hey, you've already made up your mind so there seems to be little to no value of us even talking with each other.

landemva 5y ago

Yep, Cardano can't get things running after years being flush with cash.