Zamicol

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by Zamicol 5y ago
NTF's aren't on Bitcoin. They're on Ethereum which is switching over to PoS.
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by Zamicol 5y ago
Thank you! I was familiar with Ascii85 but not Z85. I just added it to the "Other projects" section of my base converter. https://convert.zamicol.com/
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by Zamicol 5y ago
Looking for that quote I can't find it on that page.
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by Zamicol 5y ago
Oh wow thanks! I was familiar with Zimmerman's base 32, (z-base-32, https://philzimmermann.com/docs/human-oriented-base-32-encod... ) but not Crockford's. I just added it to the "Other projects" sec
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by Zamicol 5y ago
Ethereum's latest attempt: https://login.xyz . I think this has a lot of problems that are not being talked about in the Ethereum community. Alex Van de Sande, the co-founder of ENS, posted in 2018 an interesting demo with
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by Zamicol 5y ago
All last week I was lamenting to my coworker at the decline of Google for technical results. Anecdotally, I googled "the oa wikipedia" last night and Google had no clue what I was talking about. This morning it's working as
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by Zamicol 5y ago
There's plenty of great content made by great people. They have the data to solve the problem.
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by Zamicol 5y ago
Anytime the ENS sign in stuff is brought up, I feel obligated to point out the following: Alex Van de Sande, the co-founder of ENS, posted in 2018 an interesting demo with UniLogin, "[Universal Logins demo for Ethereum]( https:/&#
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by Zamicol 5y ago
Gossamer looks similar to Google's Trillian which is written in Go. https://transparency.dev https://github.com/google/trillian
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by Zamicol 5y ago
Age doesn't do signing.
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by Zamicol 5y ago
Plasma converting/gasification doesn't have the "fast process" problem. (Of course it has its own challenges to solve.)
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by Zamicol 5y ago
Just as there's a central ledger of all the various citizens of the word's countries? A few trusted ledgers is all that's needed.
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by Zamicol 5y ago
Gitcoin is very much so already a thing: https://gitcoin.co/ It's used to fund public goods/open source projects.
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by Zamicol 5y ago
As long as Google is willing to serve binaries, encryption solves this.
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by Zamicol 5y ago
Why do you think the dimensions are in powers of two?
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by Zamicol 5y ago
How about just a meritocratic rating? Even here on HN I would appreciate some sort of weight on expert/experienced opinion. Although in theory I like the idea that every thought is judged on its own, the context of the author is more
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by Zamicol 5y ago
I'm unaware of a successful Internet company that didn't start by serving a niche market. Successful businesses first leverage novel services to niche markets with less competition before expansion.
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by Zamicol 5y ago
Ethereum continues to promote designs that lower fees in the future. Users anticipate a more usable system in the future, even though it has very high fees at the moment. If Ethereum was not working on lowering fees, users would quickly mi
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by Zamicol 5y ago
Importantly, if "Warren Buffet comes along and wants to spam our network" his bad actions would be tied to addresses that can be blacklisted. You can't do that with PoW without "additional" consensus rules, which is
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by Zamicol 5y ago
The cryptocurrency world is full of endless, technical publications. Yet what gets posted on Hackernews and upvoted are low quality political panderings from a cryptocurrency competitor. Compare this post with something from Ethereum: htt
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by Zamicol 5y ago
Tether is rat poison, and from the very beginning most voices in the cryptocurrency community have refused to call it a "cryptocurrency". It's a private token controlled by a private ledger. I know no one in the space that
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by Zamicol 5y ago
PGP had no economic value when published in defiance of the State Department. Why publish PGP when the personal incentives seemed to far out way the consequences? Phil Zimmerman still lives overseas. That's my point. You can ignore e
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by Zamicol 5y ago
>Cryptocurrency fanatics I am a person with nuanced thoughts and opinions, unique and diverse from the rest of the world. >cryptocurrency Let's not confuse zk proofs with cryptocurrency. Powerful, non-cryptocurrency systems that
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by Zamicol 5y ago
This is no different from PHP, Python, C++, Linux, etc. There are many checks and balances to all successful open-source projects. And when that fails you can always fork it.
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by Zamicol 5y ago
Many chains, L1's, defi products, etc., have already expressed their eagerness to comply and implement KYC and other regulatory controls. My warning is that the open-source Pandora's box of zk proofs is necessary, technically feas
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by Zamicol 5y ago
>Proof-of-stake is basically a fantasy [...] hand-waving. It having not happened yet is pretty good evidence of this being a fantasy. This couldn't be further from reality. Blackcoin (2014), Peercoin, Decred, etc... Eth 2.0 is runni
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by Zamicol 5y ago
Eventually efficient systems will implement zero knowledge proofs. Not necessarily because of "privacy", but because of the efficiency gains of such a system. Privacy is just a bi-product of this information theory reality.
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by Zamicol 5y ago
Base 64 is good at nothing and bad at some things. - Hex is human readable, case insensitive, not that "inefficient", and always aligns to bytes. - Base 85 and basE91 are efficient. - Bitcoin uses Base58 because they thought base
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by Zamicol 5y ago
Am I the only one that doesn't like base 64? Hex for when efficiency isn't paramount. Base 85 or BasE91 for when efficiency is more of a concern. http://base91.sourceforge.net/
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by Zamicol 5y ago
Useless/scam tokens are a problem, but it's not specific to Uniswap. That's a problem inherent to permitting anyone to create a new token, like with ERC-20 tokens. If you want to trade useful tokens, Uniswap's data is t

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