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Bitcoin is worse is better(gwern.net)
4 points by capnorange 6y ago|0 comments
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by capnorange 6y ago
> Do you have any practical DeFI resources you can share around this? I would suggest reading about the popular Defi apps directly from website, use Twitter. bankless.substack.com is popular among this crowd. > I imagine you need to b
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by capnorange 6y ago
This might be controversial for HN but here goes. A couple months back, I got into reading and learning about Ethereum. I never liked it, still don't get the value in blockchains except for Bitcoin. I have a couple of bots/alerts
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by capnorange 6y ago
To see zk-Snarks in action, there is a cool MMO space-conquest game based on it. http://zkga.me/ https://blog.zkga.me/
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by capnorange 6y ago
Building a community is sticky. It's the same reason people trust opinions from people rather than some anon on the internet. It's not world changing but it definitely is to his users.
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by capnorange 6y ago
leaving the ponzis, illegal markets aside I think there is some interesting stuff happening in crypto right now. Publicly traded companies[1] are starting to consider BTC as a reserve asset. MSTR converted 85% of cash reserves to Bitcoin(38
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by capnorange 6y ago
You are looking at a part of crypto, it's not crypto if it doesn't enable illegal activities. Whether this double-edged sword is net positive is the real question!
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by capnorange 6y ago
I don't require any upstream changes. Just want to keep my existing product running without rewrites. Thanks for the info!
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Ask HN: Using code after open source license change
2 points by capnorange 6y ago|3 comments
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Inchworm learning(jaredtendler.com)
1 points by capnorange 6y ago|0 comments
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by capnorange 6y ago
what's wrong with any of them?
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by capnorange 6y ago
this is not really one "industry", tech is just an enabler here. The only difference is what was once physical is now digital.
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by capnorange 6y ago
or it's non-vc fork - https://based.money/ !
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by capnorange 6y ago
still yet to find an ActiveRecord equivalent for javascript.
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by capnorange 6y ago
I just got back into ruby after a while and I must say it feels so zen.
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by capnorange 6y ago
You should look at Taskwarrior for some inspiration! I use TW and it has the features you mentioned(and I use them regularly). Urgency is derived from certain coefficients[1]. [1] https://taskwarrior.org/docs/urgency.ht
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by capnorange 6y ago
51% is possible, but it only leads to chain reorgs, not the actual consensus rules. In practice the actual cost and the uncertainty of an attack ensures that it is almost never attempted in practice for secure* blockchains: 1. You would nee
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by capnorange 6y ago
agreed. Here "they'll" is not Vitalik/co, it's in control of the node validators, ofcourse you are affected by this if are in disagreement of the majority. The reason why it will be difficult to pull off a hard fork
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by capnorange 6y ago
blockchains are immutable for all practical purposes using social consensus/governance rules.
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by capnorange 6y ago
open source, permissionless, programmable, trustless, unstoppable.
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by capnorange 6y ago
weird usage of the term "Marketing" to mean business related(product market fit, competition etc).
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by capnorange 6y ago
thank you for you work!
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Bitcoin and the Bubble Theory of Money(jpkoning.blogspot.com)
2 points by capnorange 6y ago|0 comments
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by capnorange 6y ago
The reason is mostly I couldn't replace my current workflow using other tools. 1. open-source. 2. One command away from my editor(I only use desktop for taking notes), also synced to my dropbox in case. 3. Amazing extensibility with pl
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by capnorange 6y ago
this is the setup I keep going back to(I've tried Roam, Obsidian, Tiddly) - VimWiki + TaskWarrior + TaskWiki.