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by dropnerd 5y ago
hn is a privacy/piracy/(decentralization but not on the blockchain) enthusiasts. we produce gems such as this highly upvoted alternative to Dropbox - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 : > getting an FTP
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by dropnerd 5y ago
if it's a hardened blockchain like ethereum, it also protects against actors who'll insist that they never said x. the blockchain is forever
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by dropnerd 5y ago
bitcoin is not going to pos. it'll either become too big to fail via lobbying or it will run into significant headwinds. maybe it will require pow regulation to change the risk-reward calculation for eth to finalize its transition to p
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by dropnerd 5y ago
it's easier to add time delays to cryptocurrencies than anonymity to our current banking system.
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by dropnerd 5y ago
i suspect that proof of stake cryptotokens at scale will consume less energy than video games and machine learning.
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by dropnerd 5y ago
> An n of m scheme with each n being held by parties unlikely to collaborate is another solution. there are two way to do this currently- multisig wallets and shamir's secret sharing algorithm. multisig wallet is more widely support
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by dropnerd 5y ago
Betteridge: > any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no
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by dropnerd 5y ago
you can lose half of your logins (oauth) if faang's algorithm don't like you. decentralized identities fix this for free (no-onchain transactions required)
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by dropnerd 5y ago
its strange how hn is so intellectually curious about technical subjects then as soon as people can make money from the tech, people who decide it's an immoral scam and have no curiosity take over the conversation the internet has conv
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by dropnerd 5y ago
a digital marketplace goes down with no warning, and all the customer data is safe how is this not bigger news? hn hates when companies shut down marketplaces with no migration strategy
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by dropnerd 5y ago
a few hours after you sign, it shows up when you log in to your banking app. behind the scenes, the bank built a blockchain team or partnered with someone like coinbase or consensys to CRUD the info to a smart contract. your dad doesn'
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by dropnerd 5y ago
have you been waiting since 2017?
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by dropnerd 5y ago
how much are artists being paid on deviantart?
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by dropnerd 5y ago
make it non-commercial and don't tokenize it so basically like 99% of the art on the internet
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by dropnerd 5y ago
there's no net money transfer to these operations, and no one possibly believes that this was a real transaction. it's much more likely that this was a practical joke, or an attempt to turn punk #9998 into a meme
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by dropnerd 5y ago
pretty sure there is a store in cryptovoxels
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by dropnerd 5y ago
ill bite. does someone want to explain when and how a federated system will reach mass adoption and not get rekt by competition?
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by dropnerd 5y ago
https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ > So while it’s nice that I’m able to host my own email, that’s also the reason why my email isn’t end-to-end encrypted, and probably never will be. By contrast,
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by dropnerd 5y ago
every hn top thread about fb says "we don't want fb to do this" or "fb is evil" whether you agree or disagree, the more interesting question is the details behind what Meta could build the answer is not federation.
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by dropnerd 5y ago
if bandcamp goes out of business, your proof that you bought from the artist disappears when the aws rds database turns off if you mint an nft, so long as there is some business querying the ethereum blockchain, you can prove your purchase
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by dropnerd 5y ago
the convention in the space: - payment processing is handled by your fiat gateway like Coinbase. bonus- no chargebacks to worry about - community building and comms are handled on Discord
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by dropnerd 5y ago
nfts are moving art and collectibles to the internet. it's about time. the most prestigious or memeable pieces will continue to be relevant long into the future.
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by dropnerd 5y ago
do you have a falsifiable prediction about this bubble?
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by dropnerd 5y ago
i love tweets because they're short. most writers write too much. for example, op's post could have fit in a single tweet. "i dislike twitter threads because they're hard to follow. it's hard to find a tweet's
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by dropnerd 5y ago
both platforms have many writers that are successfully building an audience
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by dropnerd 5y ago
if the game is so boring that youd rather pay $1 to skip an activity, its a Skinner box blame the game mechanics, not the money
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by dropnerd 5y ago
minecraft and roblox show the demand for games with content from a variety of artists. imagine you paid a few hundred or thousand dollars for the hat, you'd be strongly incentivized to call the games that aren't contributing back
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by dropnerd 5y ago
between this news and sweeney's dismissal [1], the decentralized future is bright > Sweeney: We aren’t touching NFTs as the whole field is currently tangled up with an intractable mix of scams, interesting decentralized tech foundat
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by dropnerd 5y ago
there could be licensing restrictions. (i think we can do better, but it's a path.) in the absence of licensing restrictions, the nft owners are incentivized to prefer projects that provide utility for their nfts.
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by dropnerd 5y ago
have you heard of Hirst's "The Currency"? i suspect that most buyers will choose to burn the physical copy. collectible art is moving to the digital era, and certificates are the scarcity mechanism. > The way The Currency

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