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by iskander 4y ago
I think you'll see the ZK stuff used increasingly for non-financial applications, it's a legitimately novel and powerful area of mathematical primitives for verifiable computation. FHE is also very cool and just starting to be usa
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by iskander 4y ago
On the other hand, people chasing the dream of crypto scalability have actually invented a remarkable amount of math and tooling around large scale proof construction, summarization and validation. The Zero Knowledge proof ecosystem (and it
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by iskander 4y ago
I mean it obviously enables things previously not possible: open experimentation with financial primitives which results in new ideas like automatic market makers. Nothing within the traditional financial world allows you, as a random tinke
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by iskander 4y ago
Like, theoretical value add? Composable open source finance seems like a cool idea. Practical value add? Less clear. On-chain comes with "contract risk", off-chain is more or less unregulated and comes with these FTX-like collapse
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by iskander 4y ago
That's the underlying payment network, but a whole "industry" of institutions have grown on top of it. Those can be regulated.
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by iskander 4y ago
Miami has the sturdiest residential construction materials of any city I have lived in. Cinderblock is extremely common. It still doesn't save your home if you build at 5ft above sea level and a hurricane brings 15ft of storm surge.
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by iskander 4y ago
I got an internship offer from Jane Street back when I was at NYU, so at the very least the criteria are (or used to be) broader.
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by iskander 4y ago
Zcash seems interesting to me in that it feels like Bitcoin without either ossification or getting overwhelmed into becoming a casino substrate like programmable currencies. It evolves but slowly and in a particular well scoped direction.
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by iskander 4y ago
Zerocash is now shielded by default ( https://electriccoin.co/blog/new-releases-to-help-enable-zca... ), does that count?
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by iskander 4y ago
I'm interested in cases like Rari where there was a decentralized governance mechanism but it was dominated by a "core team", that feels like it encompasses a larger slice of the space than I would have expected. Many of the
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by iskander 4y ago
Is there a list of all 25 somewhere? This could provide some illumination on what SEC does and does not consider a security.
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by iskander 4y ago
A transfer between your own accounts is pretty straightforward to declare, it's you on both sides.
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by iskander 4y ago
I don't think the mint prices for any works by shvembldr have ever exceeded €10k. I looked up the mint price for The Blocks of Art and it was 0.1eth (maybe $300 at the time), the closest I could find was the high point of an auction fo
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by iskander 4y ago
Right, it seems that they want a KYC list for everyone who bought his art, which isn't possible given the medium. Some announcement of that policy would be better than letting it become known through surprise enforcement.
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by iskander 4y ago
...how did he end up with 8.7M EUR if he sent this money back?
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by iskander 4y ago
Whatever your opinions on generative art sold as NFTs, the lack of regulatory clarity seems pretty stifling. The author asked for guidance: >I called the VID (Latvian State Revenue Service) and asked in detail what I should do. I was tol
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by iskander 4y ago
My experience: The first two years of my CS PhD program, which overlapped significantly with the MSc program, were extremely engaging and pushed my intellectual boundaries much harder than OCW or any other online content.
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by iskander 4y ago
NYC is pretty much the only quasi-European larger city in the US, and in North America maybe only Mexico City and Montreal are comparable. Boston and DC are more influenced by cars but still have a large fraction of the city that's wal
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by iskander 4y ago
The "spikiness" of crime in NYC is extreme. I lived about two blocks away from a housing project which had a low but steady rate of assault, rape, and even the occasional murder. You wouldn't know it on my street and I never
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by iskander 4y ago
What's the current state of those capital requirements in US banks? Is this the latest requirement? https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/bcre... (4.5%) And how do banks actually measure up
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by iskander 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm%E2%80%93Leach%E2%80%93Bl... >the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999...repealed part of the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933, removing barriers in the market among banking comp
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by iskander 4y ago
Worth learning more about DAOs. They're sometimes frivolous ("buy the constitution") but often actually interesting (see LabDAO and other funding organizations in the Decentralized Science movement).
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by iskander 4y ago
Have you ever encountered a project actually fundraising in this way?
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by iskander 4y ago
"Shielded" transactions on networks such as Zerocash are private. There's an increasing trend in this direction as "zero knowledge" layer 2 networks come online, since they have the same underlying mechanisms which
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by iskander 4y ago
To whose bank account? Multi-signature wallets are a really nice feature which are cumbersome to imitate in a real bank account (involving physical signatures).
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by iskander 4y ago
Me and a few hundred pseudonymous individuals on Twitter will...what? Mail different currencies to a trusted central party?
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by iskander 4y ago
>Someone, please show me an application where blockchain is essential. That is, a problem that could not have been solved without blockchain that can now be solved with it. I would like to fundraise with an international group that doesn
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by iskander 4y ago
GUSD seems to be about as safe as USDC (1:1 backing in banks) but careful where you try to earn interest on them. Gemini Earn hands over your GUSD to Genesis Trading, with no guarantee you get anything back if they implode. DeFi yield in th
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by iskander 4y ago
An additional concern about their stETH is whether they generating high yields via the dubious strategy of "recursive staking": stake ETH to get back stETH, borrow ETH using your stETH as collateral, stake the borrowed ETH to get
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by iskander 4y ago
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