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I’ve been thinking a lot about that too, there are so many code proposals and votes and pull requests happening which - if held to the same standard as the rest

I’ve been thinking a lot about that too, there are so many code proposals and votes and pull requests happening which - if held to the same standard as the rest of the open source community here - would be interesting front page discussions on HN all the time there are two things that could help fix that: 1. dang and the moderators should heavily flag "unsubstantial" comments on crypto-related posts. many HN users use any post about crypto assets to talk about an irrelevant philosophical view on the entire sector's existence, many of those users of course work for a democracy destabilizing adtech conglomerate and don't see the irony in their focus on "no utility, scams, money laundering" when there are other things going on but even then those users just want to move the goalpost about why those other things aren't useful instead of how it could be. those comments should all be flagged and users should be requested to talk about the article in question. 2. HN users interested in particular discussions can post them more, and ensure engagement occurs on those posts. For example, deep discussions about Taproot and the organizations building on that should have been here, and should be. Code based solutions should be born here and carried back to repositories and other forums. A network's "improvement proposal" should be discussed here, and the implementation details, or updates on network consensus. Libraries that developers use should be talked about here ad nauseam.

kortilla 3y ago
Do you have an example of what would be an interesting technical discussion for people not interested in tokens/coins/whatever?
- yieldcrv 3y ago
  example could be in the form of software libraries that allow people to connect to applications are an active area of development ethers.js for EVM based platforms and you can find competitors for that here https://www.alchemy.com/alternatives/ethers-js https://www.alchemy.com/alternatives/ethers-js they all have deficiencies and there are active pull requests and things to improve in all of them an additional part of the stack would be the node software itself, how do you run a client that connects to any particular blockchain. the node software is all pretty pathetic and there is often a project in a programming language of choice, as well as for each blockchain additionally there are improvement proposals on each blockchain, and many times each DAO (projects on a blockchain). think about the blockchain networks as states and each improvement proposal is a referendum. while a DAO would be like any corporation or trust or non profit within that state, having its own community board altering things you can propose an improvement proposal in any, or get involved in a certain one You can find them by using the acronym, current bitcoin improvement proposals are called BIPs, ethereum’s EIP, solana SIP… at one project level you have Helium which is very active and uses HIP and so on basically you have a bifurcation of the population here: there is a group of people that see something wrong with blockchains and dismiss it for that reason, while there is another group that see something wrong with blockchains and go to improve it. most of the confidence in blockchains comes from its ratification process and ability to change. one long necessary and outstanding change gets ratified and opens up a new market, a new sector for the crypto concept to touch, then irrational exuberance comes, then it fades, an additional ratification finishes, the same thing occurs from people too excited about it. Ultimately each advance adds to the resilience and more people find the development and proposals as a meaningful way to contribute.

kortilla 3y ago

Do you have an example of what would be an interesting technical discussion for people not interested in tokens/coins/whatever?

yieldcrv 3y ago
example could be in the form of software libraries that allow people to connect to applications are an active area of development ethers.js for EVM based platforms and you can find competitors for that here https://www.alchemy.com/alternatives/ethers-js https://www.alchemy.com/alternatives/ethers-js they all have deficiencies and there are active pull requests and things to improve in all of them an additional part of the stack would be the node software itself, how do you run a client that connects to any particular blockchain. the node software is all pretty pathetic and there is often a project in a programming language of choice, as well as for each blockchain additionally there are improvement proposals on each blockchain, and many times each DAO (projects on a blockchain). think about the blockchain networks as states and each improvement proposal is a referendum. while a DAO would be like any corporation or trust or non profit within that state, having its own community board altering things you can propose an improvement proposal in any, or get involved in a certain one You can find them by using the acronym, current bitcoin improvement proposals are called BIPs, ethereum’s EIP, solana SIP… at one project level you have Helium which is very active and uses HIP and so on basically you have a bifurcation of the population here: there is a group of people that see something wrong with blockchains and dismiss it for that reason, while there is another group that see something wrong with blockchains and go to improve it. most of the confidence in blockchains comes from its ratification process and ability to change. one long necessary and outstanding change gets ratified and opens up a new market, a new sector for the crypto concept to touch, then irrational exuberance comes, then it fades, an additional ratification finishes, the same thing occurs from people too excited about it. Ultimately each advance adds to the resilience and more people find the development and proposals as a meaningful way to contribute.