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by cslarson 6y ago
Could bottlerocket be the basis for desktop system where it would be easy to switch between isolated environments? It would be very handy to have a maximally secure environment, at least from software perspective, for certain operations.
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by cslarson 6y ago
This launch involves two subs, r/fortnitebr and r/cryptocurrency, and builds from an existing centralised version that r/fornitebr, among a few others, was already using. So this moves their points onto the Ethereum block
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by cslarson 6y ago
I personally think it would definitely be useful to use the metric even without monetary value - imagine Reddit communities where the contributors have real, direct influence over rules, moderation style, mod team.
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by cslarson 6y ago
Yes, this is why governance in this system should be tied to your original earned points so it cannot, at least directly, be bought. The scheme that this system currently employs, for instance, is weight = min(earned_points, current_tran
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by cslarson 6y ago
Ethereum can scale with off-chain/on-chain solutions like zk-rollups. With zk-rollups off-chain state can have the same integrity as being on-chain.
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by cslarson 6y ago
It is worth seeing if these negatives outcomes actually occur and of so they are not counterable in some way. If these risks can be mitigated then what is left is perhaps quite a useful tool - a metric for community contribution that can be
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by cslarson 6y ago
To accomplish this the community needs a sybil-resistant way to vote. This was a main, even primary, feature of community points in my opinion, and i hope experimentation in this regard can lead to a new relationship between mods and the co
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by cslarson 6y ago
These points are awarded based on contribution to specific subs and can be used within the local economy of that sub as monetary unit as well as for influence in governance (original earned points matter here so influence isn't directl
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by cslarson 6y ago
EthTrader now has 5% of distribution allocated to mods (changed by community vote). Initially it was 15% (I agree this was too high). These two new subs will be at 10% for the mods. Monetary policy was only influenced by mods for the initia
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by cslarson 7y ago
Brave is indeed very fast and particularly on mobile it is useful that the ad blocker is built-in. Thigh I think for most normies the fact that no plug-in is needed is underrated. I haven't opted in to ads. They pop up as notifications
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by cslarson 7y ago
Yes! I want to say that the good flows from this stability. But I'm not sure there is enough of a track record to make the claim. Another fun way to put this and make the point perhaps a bit provocatively is to say there are no wrong
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by cslarson 7y ago
In r/ethtrader we are currently running an experiment where contributions are collated bi-weekly and tokenized on Ethereum. The tokens are also part of a dao with a number of features integrated directly into Reddit. Voting, tipping, s
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by cslarson 7y ago
Yes, I would say ipfs is an important component of web3. Ethereum has it's own competitor to ipfs called swarm which provides the static content hosting to pair with decentralised database (Ethereum blockchain), and decentralised messa
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by cslarson 7y ago
You are equating crypto with payment but it's really moved on from that. The blockchain space really about competing with Ethereum to provide a decentralised platform for applications - what some people term as web3.
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by cslarson 8y ago
This is a great use case for Ethereum and there is an excellent application live for it - gitcoin grants ( https://gitcoin.co/grants/ ). It is really slick and defaults to use a USD pegged stablecoin (DAI).
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by cslarson 8y ago
so is Augur an oracle that makes smart contracts interesting again? MakerDAO uses an oracle for the ETH/USD price as part of is DAI system for creating a decentralised $-pegged token. It seems like there are ways to solve the issue of
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by cslarson 8y ago
The Ethereum project is about providing a complete decentralized web3 stack - not just a blockchain, though the database layer that provides is a critical part of it.
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by cslarson 8y ago
You can get around this by "washing" via a privacy coin like monero.
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by cslarson 8y ago
Bitcoin has little to do with the value that will come from blockchain.
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by cslarson 8y ago
[meta] Does this really need to be an amp link?
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by cslarson 8y ago
1 hr + 44 points + no comments = upvote manipulation
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by cslarson 8y ago
Reddit is experimenting with sybil-resistent voting on a sub I moderate (r/ethtrader). In fact there is a vote[0] going on to retain me as the first moderator. The sybil-resistence comes from weighting polls with community points (on o
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by cslarson 8y ago
I know it's not your comment but for others benefit who might not know - people of Afghanistan are Afghan, not Afghani. One afghani, or af, is the unit of currency there. The confusion may come because people of stan-suffix countries d
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by cslarson 8y ago
This is ecosystem. Status is a project that was funded as an Ethereum ICO. To support their existing work they're incentivised to help support core development of Ethereum itself. Love it.
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by cslarson 8y ago
Ethereum is novel and ambitious technology. In my mind, and I think in the minds of most in the community, scaling had always been the big, important challenge on the horizon - but it builds confidence to see just how far the devs (and comm
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by cslarson 8y ago
Yes, this is a totally trash article but just look at how the hn crowd laps it up because it fits in with their narrative about this tech. What a retrograde place this has become.
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by cslarson 8y ago
Golem is live. Augur is going live today. MakerDAO has a very interesting stablecoin called Dai that's live. Status' mobile app is now mainnet by default. DigixDAO is live. And many more in testnet phases. But don't let reali
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by cslarson 8y ago
There may be demand for tether to use on exchanges that don't have real $ trading but otherwise have good liquidity on lots of tokens.
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by cslarson 8y ago
MakerDAO offers a way to get a 0.5% loan
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by cslarson 8y ago
Core development of Ethereum - both around the protocol design and also the client implementations - is also decentralised.

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