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by eyezick 9y ago
Vlad isn't a dev fyi, and he pretty much does say his tweet was hyperbolic intentionally to temper the crazy bullishness of the time
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by eyezick 9y ago
For Augur, how it works is reporters are randomly handed events to report on. Meaning you can't buy REP and then choose to report on a specific event in order to further your financial interest. Further even if you did that and by rand
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by eyezick 9y ago
That is the more precise definition, and there is reason to believe the majority will be honest as reporting events are randomly distributed, and you can't possibly know who's reporting what until the reporting results are all sub
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by eyezick 9y ago
This is a significant challenge for sure, at least with Ethereum there's no way around needing an external account (centralization) to feed data into the blockchain. However, I know of at least 1 promising project on Ethereum (Augur) t
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by eyezick 9y ago
A good litmus test is the level of technical depth of discussion, it's very easy to discuss hypothetical achievements at a high-level of any cryptoasset, but to be able to get into the details demonstrates knowledge beyond any regular
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by eyezick 9y ago
Yeah the tutorials that are there are mostly out of date and not clear. Google is your only friend unfortunately. It took me a few days to figure deploy my first contract on Ropsten testnet with Truffle and a local node. Now it's easy
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by eyezick 9y ago
Ethereum tokens are just variables defined in a smart contract, except the way the variables are managed has a community accepted standard. They're not transferrable in the way ETH is between accounts; the original Token smart contract
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by eyezick 10y ago
3) I thoroughly disagree as there are clear and consistent correlations of Bitcoin price to certain events, such as news of Yuan devaluation. Of course correlation /=/ causation, and especially as this is a very low barrier of ent
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by eyezick 10y ago
An enormous portion of Bitcoin that is continually mined comes from China due to cheap electricity, so that + artificially inflated Yuan means a lot of activity.
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by eyezick 10y ago
Same is said for his Python book as he discourages Python 3; 'Automate the Boring Stuff' is also free and superior