ETH_start

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by ETH_start 4y ago
Right now Ethereum is only useful for niche applications, like using your ETH as collateral for an autonomously issued DAI loan. This is because its disadvantages, like lack of privacy and very limited throughput capacity, make traditional
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by ETH_start 4y ago
I suggest you stand up for your industry. Finance in general and cryptocurrency in particular is much decried for being supposedly speculative/unproductive. While anything involving money has a higher than normal proportion of scammers
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by ETH_start 4y ago
ETH launched in 2015, which is 7 years ago, and has been working through fundamental limitations of the technology, building out the technological primitives that will enable mass-consumer blockchain applications in the future. A list of ar
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by ETH_start 4y ago
None of the well-regarded DeFi protocols have blown up during this crash, while several centralized funds/lenders have. This is proving out the inherent resiliency of decentralized finance. LUNA/UST was nominally a DeFi system tha
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by ETH_start 4y ago
BOINC is not decentralized. I should also add, that I envision this application providing compensation to GPU nodes, rather than being volunteer driven. That's the only way to compete with centralized/closed AI systems across all
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by ETH_start 4y ago
It's quite an oversight for the writer to not mention even once Ethereum's switch to Proof of Stake, which will shut off all mining in about two months' time. Any way, it would be nice if, after the switch to PoS, these GPUs
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by ETH_start 4y ago
>>You're talking about Musk becoming open about his backing for an authoritarian, cult-of-personality party? Musk doesn't have any good alternatives, unfortunately. He's supposed to back the Democratic Party, that relie
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by ETH_start 4y ago
>>If we actually enforced these laws, maybe we would have electric cars even earlier, and indeed, there maybe wouldn't be Tesla. This is just utopianism. >>Laws don't work this way I wasn't saying they do. I was e
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by ETH_start 4y ago
Switching to electric vehicles is a very significant part of combating climate change, without which there is no hope of achieving zero carbon, and no company has done more to make that happen than Tesla. Minimizing how significant Tesla&#x