everfree

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by everfree 5y ago
It's very common to use more than one account, and send money between them for various reasons.
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by everfree 5y ago
The extent of their mutability is dictated by their immutable code. But you're right in that such a setup allows a contract system to be mutable in practice.
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by everfree 5y ago
I don't believe that it's feasible for all other exchanges globally to agree to coordinate to block coins that have ever touched exchange X in their ownership history. It's too much of a global coordination problem.
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by everfree 5y ago
In practice, there will always be at least one exchange that lets people trade coins that are tainted by some measure, because that particular exchange's idea of taint does not implicate the history of their coins. Once a person trades
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by everfree 5y ago
Because everyone's definition of taint is different, and coming up with a globally recognized universal definition of taint is logistically impossible. To you, you might be trying to break your link with a Bitcoin mixer by wrapping tho
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by everfree 5y ago
> It's impossible to cash out a tainted bitcoin since it cannot be deposited at exchanges. Its value is essentially zero. Given the limitless number of cryptocurrencies coupled with the limitless number of exchanges, there will alwa
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by everfree 5y ago
> Imagine how fucked up your in-person social groups/interactions would be if everyone, for YEARS was for some reason only capable of boosting/encouraging one another, with no reflexive negative responses -- no frowns, no eyebr
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by everfree 5y ago
I want more spaces that push out trolls, but where I can interact with non-like-minded individuals. If I only interact with like-minded individuals, that means the internet has failed its use case for me, which is to broaden my world view
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by everfree 5y ago
> Twitter without downvotes is, after all, famously not a single train of thought under a Tweet! In my experience, it really isn't! Whenever I see a bad take on Twitter, I generally see some sort of rebuttal within the first dozen o
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by everfree 5y ago
I agree completely with this comment under the article: > I really don’t like the idea of downvotes, just makes it easier to make sure there’s only one train of thought under a tweet. So if a tweet is aimed at a certain subsection of peo
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by everfree 5y ago
USDC is a coin issued by the US-based company Circle Ltd. It's not related to Tether.
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by everfree 5y ago
The article is about stablecoin minting and redemption, not purchases or sales, so I'm not sure where this is coming from. The article also doesn't have anything to do with buying things or the prices of things rising. Stablecoins
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by everfree 5y ago
Crypto tech has already been made power efficient. Bitcoin and Ethereum are the only relevant ones that haven't adopted the new technology yet, and Ethereum is about three quarters of the way through rolling it out. The subtext I'
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by everfree 5y ago
How about air travel or meat consumption? Those have big environmental footprints, but it doesn't seem like society generally discourages going on flights or eating meat.
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by everfree 5y ago
This article seems to be more of a manufactured platform for the author's distaste for cryptocurrency than an expression of genuine concern about the environmental impact of web browser publishers. The author doesn't seem to appre
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by everfree 5y ago
That would be a wrong assumption, I believe. You don't need to know much about crypto to be able to accept it.
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by everfree 5y ago
> They are simply not anywhere near the same thing, and attempts to brand them as the more or less same thing just comes across as denial. They are the same thing specifically when it comes to: * Downloading, verifying, and storing every
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by everfree 5y ago
Those all sound like local database features that one could add to an Ethereum client if they found them useful enough to bother, they aren't protocol-level concerns or "flaws in the design of eth" as you put it earlier. >
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by everfree 5y ago
I don't think it's misleading to call Git history "packed", and the mechanism for regenerating historical states is similar to Ethereum's (though of course Git's delta function is changeset-only with no turing-
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by everfree 5y ago
I'll give you that. If you need to query a list of all contract transactions that have ever transferred ETH to your address, I believe you would need an archive node to do so although don't quote me on that. > Besides, the argu
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by everfree 5y ago
Why would you want to query it, though? A full node lets you fully verify the chain's historical states and it lets you interact with the current state. Unless you're running a service that exists solely to allow people to query h
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by everfree 5y ago
> Can you please elaborate on that? If that's the case then I've to read a bit more on the subject as I thought every cryptocurrency required powerful hardware (GPUs or ASICs) under intensive load, which of course translates in
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by everfree 5y ago
> it uses your computer as the source as opposed to their own servers > this comment could be saved on my computer, but accessible to everyone viewing even if my computer is off via caching It sounds to me like you're just renami
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by everfree 5y ago
Ethereum has plans for state expiry, so that to maintain a verified copy of the blockchain you won't be expected to maintain a growing list of state transitions since genesis anymore. A sister initiative, weak statelessness, means that
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by everfree 5y ago
Full nodes contain the same data as archival nodes do, they just don't have it unpacked out to disk. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29846272
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by everfree 5y ago
Archival nodes also keep state back to the genesis block, it's just stored in delta format so you could say that it's not "unpacked" out to the disk. It's a common misconception that "full nodes" don'
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by everfree 5y ago
> I politely ask others to reply with "You're wrong because ..." followed by a believable explanation. I want to be proven wrong on this. One thing you're wrong about is that cryptocurrencies are in general mined us
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by everfree 5y ago
I don't think too much competition has ever killed a product category. Usually the "few exceptions" end up dominating a market.
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by everfree 5y ago
Here's a short explanation video to get you started. The general idea is that multiple signers are used, such that an outside observer doesn't know which signer is the "real" one, but only knows that "at least one o
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by everfree 5y ago
I find it telling that several currently live privacy networks were mentioned in this comment tree that you can use today, yet you still latch on to the word "eventually" and call the space a scam.

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