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by cslarson 8y ago
The value of bitcoin gold doesn't seem to have gone down in correlation with this attack.
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by cslarson 8y ago
Account portability works exactly like this in the UK. I can't say that banks here provide a much better service than I received in the US.
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by cslarson 8y ago
Sure, if these projects were already blow away successes and completely disrupted their respective markets we wouldn't (hopefully!) be having this conversation. And I agree that skepticism is warranted here but at least with regard to
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by cslarson 8y ago
> and "smart contract" systems like Ethereum seems to still not show any productive output aside from scams and severe bugs in wallets and contracts that lose millions of dollars Ethereum is a vibrant, growing ecosystem with ma
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by cslarson 8y ago
This really misses the picture of what's going on. Fedcoin could be coordinated by the federal but live on or be connected to a public smart contract platform where that, now digitised asset, could be used programmatically and interdep
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by cslarson 8y ago
This is the future of the web. Platforms and networks that offer better incentives for participation will replace those of the old (current dominant) model. Rather than users-as-the-product, users will be in the driving seat - with agency t
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by cslarson 8y ago
Space elevators?
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by cslarson 8y ago
There will still be mining, just no block reward. The "payment" would instead be solely from transaction fees.
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by cslarson 8y ago
Blockchain may be a tool to experiment with different business models.
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by cslarson 8y ago
I'm quite torn on this one myself but for now the downsides are outweighing the good. Just the fact that it is very contentious is a big problem. It just isn't worth another possible network split or negative pr it would bring. Et
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by cslarson 8y ago
Nope. Users are in charge when they make the choice of which software to use.
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by cslarson 8y ago
This EIP has not been enacted via a hard fork and from the looks of it doesn't have the required support. The ETC fork happened very early and affected some large percentage of available tokens - I think 15% or so.
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by cslarson 8y ago
Ethereum Classic also hard forks in order to make changes and other upgrades to it's protocol. Ethereum has not yet hard forked to enact this proposal. At the moment it looks very unlikely to gain the support needed.
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by cslarson 9y ago
> USD 0.5-1 per transaction This is absolutely not true. Gas prices have been floating between 1 and 4 gwei for a while now. An erc20 token tx may cost 150k gas so between .00015 and .0006 ETH per tx. So that's $0.09 to $0.37. A sim
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by cslarson 9y ago
Technically the bracket could be owned by another contract rather than a normal account so in theory at least it's possible.
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by cslarson 9y ago
I don't think it's that the team is not crucial to delivery, but rather that incentivising that team by giving them such an upfront, guaranteed reward is not ideal.
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by cslarson 9y ago
I think many people involved in Ethereum community now believe the current ICO model to be fundamentally broken despite being the platform most of them are hosted on. Vitalik, for instance, has said "fund ideas, not teams" and pro
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by cslarson 9y ago
Oh the cynicism here is so sad. To everything there is a season, I guess. Anyway! Does the Dai stablecoin not undermine this idea that nothing worthwhile can be built on Ethereum? Don't like ICOs? Neither do I. While the evolution of I
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by cslarson 9y ago
The software can be duplicated but the network of devs, users, validators, etc is harder to duplicate. The intrinsic value of ETH is to use it to pay for transactions on the Ethereum platform. These transactions are used to form dApps that
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by cslarson 9y ago
> when they'd be better off simply creating a new coin (or indeed forking Ethereum and awarding themselves more Ether) They should certainly do this if it would result in a system with the security profile that meets their requireme
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by cslarson 9y ago
I think anyone looking for an interesting use case for Ethereum smart contracts should check out how the Dai stablecoin works[1]. Using it is an eye opener, too ( https://dai.makerdao.com ). [1] https://medium.com/
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by cslarson 9y ago
I recently (yesterday) calculated[0] that Ethereum is roughly 64% of the GPU mining market by power. That's a lower bound - it's likely much higher, maybe 75+%. Hybrid POS/POW is expected in the fall and will likely come with
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by cslarson 9y ago
Chainlink is a project to enable a network of decentralised oracles.
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by cslarson 9y ago
Took the family to see a kids movie yesterday. There was an like 30 minutes of ads at the beginning. I don't think they realise how jarring that is and how that's not something I want my kids to experience. Will reconsider going n
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by cslarson 9y ago
Gemini is a nice exchange.
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by cslarson 9y ago
> hey don't blame me I just used some library, it's the library's fault Who really says that?
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by cslarson 9y ago
FYI, in the first paragraph you misspelled Ethereum as "Etherium".
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by cslarson 9y ago
The risk of that happening depends on how dependent the functioning of the token is on the company that held the ICO. It's precisely why the effort to decentralise governance for the project and give token holders influence is such a c
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by cslarson 9y ago
Oh right.
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by cslarson 9y ago
You can make Ethereum transactions for a few cents that take only about a minute or less to complete. There's also a lot more you can do with them than just transfer them around.

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