Sargos

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by Sargos 6y ago
I love talking about this stuff but it does have a lot of technical jargon and dependent knowledge that is very difficult to convey simply. I'll try my best. Also this stuff is still being designed and built so some of it is not even c
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by Sargos 6y ago
I didn't say they will turn themselves into protocols. The social protocols that are developed will displace those corporations over time as they provide more functionality with fewer restrictions.
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by Sargos 6y ago
> It's weird how politicians never talk about regulating Visa and Mastercard These are two of the most heavily regulated corporations in the world. I don't even understand the premise of your comment. Banking and money is extre
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by Sargos 6y ago
No, at least not in the semi-democracy systems that are in use today. In most western countries the citizens are allowed to vote on a portion of the people that create and run the government. It varies between countries but even in those ne
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by Sargos 6y ago
We seem to be nearing peak big tech which does conflict a bit with the nation state system but looking at technology today it does seem to be a temporary phenomenon with light at the end of the tunnel. Decentralized protocols that operate a
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by Sargos 6y ago
EU is still pretty balkanized when it comes to rules and is a headache for businesses especially when compared to the US.
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by Sargos 6y ago
Also $1000 vs $300 heh
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by Sargos 6y ago
You mentioned Aztec so I'd like to ask you my unanswered question for him below as I'd love to hear the opinion of an expert! What do you think about Aztec (zkRollup L2 for Ethereum)? I tend to get really excited about it as it lo
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by Sargos 6y ago
What do you think about Aztec (zkRollup L2 for Ethereum)? I tend to get really excited about it as it looks like a private by default system that supports smart contracts (including calling L1 in some cases), inherits Ethereum's securi
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by Sargos 6y ago
You just explained to yourself why Bitcoins supply is fixed and can't feasibly be changed. It was a well made argument, good job.
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by Sargos 6y ago
Uses what? Ethereum? Proof of Stake? Ethereum is the most heavily used blockchain by far and powers all of DeFi which comprises of digital versions of most of the traditional finance tools. It also powers the entire NFT/collectible spa
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by Sargos 6y ago
You'd think so but that wasn't a popular idea in 1997. Most people really didn't see much of a use for the internet.
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by Sargos 6y ago
The Ethereum Foundation's purpose is to fund and coordinate the building of the protocol and infrastructure surrounding it. That does include funding of wallet developers which it has done in the past but it's better for the ecosy
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by Sargos 6y ago
> Crypto isn’t going to do anything for global warming Actually this is a pretty good example of a problem that quadratic funding has a good chance of helping with. It's really hard to coordinate all nations on Earth but not actuall
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by Sargos 6y ago
The US and Canada could block each other and it wouldn't affect Ethereum at all. Everyone in the world including those two countries could still use it.
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by Sargos 6y ago
BTC (2%) and ETH (4.5%) are both inflationary right now and have never been deflationary. BTC will be inflationary until about 100 years from now. ETH is a bit more complex but in about a year when it switches from proof of work to proof of
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by Sargos 6y ago
I would use the Pandemic to argue the exact opposite really. It's the worst disaster most people have seen in their lifetimes but it hasn't caused civilization to break down. For a lot of people life hasn't even changed that
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by Sargos 6y ago
That was his point. Users don't know/care about CVEs but love want/want the new emojis. Everyone wins.
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by Sargos 6y ago
They need to upgrade to NVMes on the Universe machine
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From the Western viewpoint the answer is clearly no, but Austria will keep walking down that path regardless of whether it's morally right.
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by Sargos 6y ago
You're right, it should have been full legalization so that only regulated producers make the drugs which makes them much safer for the populace and hurts and possibly shuts down the violent cartels. The problem is that it needs to be
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by Sargos 6y ago
This seems so evil yet it's an accepted part of law?
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by Sargos 6y ago
This is something that Gitcoin Grants solves fairly well. Quadratic funding of public goods allows open source developers to be funded full time by the community.
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by Sargos 6y ago
The Aztec L2 for Ethereum uses zkSNARKS for privacy and allows for execution which means a decentralized exchange can be made in a fully private environment. It just released but it's a very exciting protocol for those who like Monero.
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by Sargos 6y ago
I'm not sure what argument you're making here. Twitter is a public forum akin to a government institution and is now censoring political viewpoints it disagrees with. You shouldn't be surprised that free speech advocates are
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by Sargos 6y ago
In a first past the post system like the US has it will always mathematically be a 2 party system. Maybe the democrats or republicans actually self destruct and cease being a party and one of those other parties take its place but there can
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by Sargos 6y ago
The USA is technically not a democracy and is instead a representative republic which is a fact. I guess you're alluding to how citizens can "vote" which means it's actually a democracy to which I would strongly disagree
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This is very much a "We've investigated ourselves and found that we did nothing wrong" situation.
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Slavery was legal. Everything Belarus is doing is also legal.
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If web browsers weren't grandfathered in then they would definitely not be allowed on the App Store and the web probably wouldn't exist today.

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