Sargos

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by Sargos 5y ago
You might be working on old information as the crypto industry has largely diversified when it comes to stablecoins and Tether is now actually #2 to USDC which is fully backed. [ https://www.defipulse.com/usd ] If Tether fail
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by Sargos 5y ago
What are you asking for sounds like a lot like Kleros ( https://kleros.io/ ) which is a decentralized and scalable justice system providing for all kinds of dispute resolution and arbitration.
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That was a bug in Optimism not Ethereum. No funds on Ethereum were at risk. Optimism is a separate project which runs a separate layer 2 network that helps run blockchain transactions faster. It uses Ethereum as its data store but is separa
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Yes. There are some alternatives and frameworks like Fleek that abstract this away from you but the most straightforward way is to update the CID with each update. Fleek can point the ENS name to an IPNS entry which retains the decentraliza
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by Sargos 5y ago
ENS [ https://ens.domains/ ] names can point to IPFS addresses. https://jamescarnley.eth (can use https://jamescarnley.eth.link if your browser doesn't support IPFS) is my IPFS powered website tha
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by Sargos 5y ago
>Instead, all this could have been avoided if they took the Keybase approach: keys never leave the device. Just have a keychain of devices which you authorize or repudiate, and use THAT to retrieve your actual accounts from the network a
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by Sargos 5y ago
It's obvious that Rogan has a diverse audience from looking at the facts. It's up to you to provide evidence to the contrary or you will have proven yourself to be arguing in bad faith which wastes people's time and harms dis
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People generally drive the safe speed for the road they are travelling on. The fact that you're being passed (probably on the right a lot of the times) means you are driving slower than traffic and are actually a danger to other driver
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by Sargos 5y ago
This wasn't really a UI problem as this was someone manually calling functions meant only for software developers. No users would ever do this as they are using apps which abstract all of this away and you have to jump through a lot of
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>No good deed goes unpunished, eh? The problem is that you think trying to sound smart by interrupting a conversation with irrelevant factoids is a "good deed". Maybe some introspection is appropriate here.
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The tech crowd was up in arms about Microsoft doing this in the 90s yet today Apple is acting even worse yet many self proclaim tech enthusiasts rush to their defense. Were the Microsoft defenders in the 90s this loud or has the tech commun
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by Sargos 5y ago
It would be disingenuous to claim that taking off shoes at the airport is the will of the people. Nobody voted for that. The public was never consulted.
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Governments encourage and are the ones pushing shotgun KYC so I would maybe phrase your comment more like "Citizens need to rebel against 'shotgun KYC'.
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>There are plenty of immunocompromised people of working age for whom vaccines simply do not work, and who cannot work from home due to the nature of their work. These people can't isolate, even if they're worried. Why were we
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by Sargos 5y ago
The social graph is 90% of the value of a social network and the hardest resource to build. Without it an exact copy of Facebook built by someone else is useless.
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How did all those tanks and drones work out for us in Afghanistan? Or Iraq? Or all of the other places where insurgents tend to win out over slow and bureaucratic militaries.
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by Sargos 5y ago
> I haven’t heard a convincing argument for why only ethereum can get users to use key pairs. I never said this. >You can improve the UX of key management tools without a global network of redundant computers Yet nobody has ever done
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by Sargos 5y ago
Here is a good thread with more information on why giving everyone a public private key pair is a big deal and the kinds of use cases it unlocks: https://twitter.com/BrantlyMillegan/status/13892701158840975...
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It feels like you're trying really hard to not get web3 any credit here. Try making something like this in the traditional web. People have tried and failed. Ethereum provides a robust, secure, and increasingly usable key storage and u
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by Sargos 5y ago
Verified probably isn't the right word here. Authentic would probably work better. I as a person have accounts on lots of apps but no real way to prove I own all of them. When you use a public key as your identifier then everyone can v
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by Sargos 5y ago
I probably should have worded it differently to avoid that connotation. There are a lot of identity protocols but that's not what I was focusing on. On HN I am Sargos. You know this because I am replying to you and only I can do that w
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by Sargos 5y ago
> I don't think you necessarily need blockchain. Can't you just prove that you are who you say by signing something and sending it to the service? It's important to remember that blockchains are just public-key cryptograph
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I was responding to this >What Web3 is pitched to be is completely antithetical to what most people want in the sense that by it's nature, Web3 basically makes AML and other financial controls pretty much impossible So you've p
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Do you have any citations for your claim that most people want KYC? All the data I've seen indicates it's a government initiative and not debated or discussed with the general public. In fact the polls we do have show an overwhelm
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This is the principle reason we need decentralized versions of apps like YouTube as you cannot safely build companies or big projects on top of them as your entire organization's existence can be turned off arbitrarily through no fault
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The Spanish Flu was over a hundred years ago and hit the world the same way Covid did even though there was no McDonald's or obesity epidemic back then.
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Your public key is available to everyone on the internet so anyone can verify your signed message. You can't do that without a blockchain unless a trusted third party is used.
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Bitcoin isn't really part of Web3 as it's just a currency. You realize this yes? If you really are betting on Web3 then be careful and be prepared for a lot more research.
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If it's still being built then it likely won't start being used until sometime next year and at that point we're back to optimizing for energy usage. It's best to pick a long term metric over a short term win when dealin
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by Sargos 5y ago
Twitter has never been decentralized. If an app wanted to do this in a decentralized way then they'd likely have Kleros curate a list of known NFT sets or use a standard like TokenLists where a user can subscribe to whatever curated li

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