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by jamespitts 9y ago
Swarm is another overly-common one :) But really, what does any brand name have to do with what its product actually does? Microsoft might be the most important exception LOL.
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The Blockchain Economy: A beginner’s guide to institutional cryptoeconomics(medium.com)
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by jamespitts 9y ago
I'd argue that we should read the White Paper for any of these technologies before investing in them in their infancy :)
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by jamespitts 9y ago
To address these issues, there should be difficult-to-attain certifications for a dog to roam free (within certain bounds), and for a dog to go with a human to places not normally allowing dogs (airplanes, restaurants, etc). The latter cert
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by jamespitts 9y ago
Due to efficiencies of scale and network effects, centralization may seem inevitable. However, we can structurally offset some of this tendency using crypto-economics.
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by jamespitts 9y ago
"Perhaps I've been wrong. Perhaps cryptographically-secured smart contracts have uses and are powerful. Perhaps the scalability challenge can be met with MapReducable computations committed into merkle proofs. Perhaps enforced exe
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by jamespitts 9y ago
Also, 0x1db is a community "white hat" sweep effort and not an attacker (See: https://etherscan.io/address/0x1dba1131000664b884a1ba2384641... )
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by jamespitts 9y ago
Helpful information for users potentially affected by this issue: - The vulnerability is in Parity's "enhanced" multi-sig contract - This affects Parity 1.5 and later - Parity 1.5 was released on January 19, 2017 (have you cr
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by jamespitts 9y ago
Some helpful information about this issue: - The vulnerability is in Parity's "enhanced" multi-sig contract - This affects Parity 1.5 and later - Parity 1.5 was released on January 19, 2017 (have you created any multi-sigs in
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by jamespitts 9y ago
The wallet was not hacked. This is a software vulnerability that affects one of the contracts that the Parity wallet helps users create, the enhanced multi-sig. Some helpful information about this issue: - The vulnerability is in Parity&#x2
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by jamespitts 9y ago
Important information related to this incident: 1. CoinDash did not publish the address of the contract in advance of the ICO: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6nsy6x/coindash_w... 2. Allegedly
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by jamespitts 9y ago
This is probably too general of a question.
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by jamespitts 9y ago
That is assuming the term retrograde is a bad thing; often it is not. I might have chosen a better word, and am curious if there is one. This retrograde notion is based on a lot of evidence and personal experiences. For example, in a conver
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by jamespitts 9y ago
We have a serious problem with retrogradism in this country. A large number of people are suffering from changes outside of their control, and they are disconnected from those at the forefront of social and technological progress. Many of t
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by jamespitts 9y ago
If I had the resources, I would rebuild all of the consumer-facing web apps using blockchain-based smart contracts. I expect that all web apps will be rebuilt in this way to an extent, either from within or by way of competition. So "i
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by jamespitts 9y ago
I hope that instead of slinging mud at ICOs, the YC community reaches out to firms like yours. Calling them all scams will not stop the next ICO from getting bigger. Note to blockchain-denialists: there are 10s of billions of capital, a dee
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by jamespitts 9y ago
I would like to make an appeal to the YC community: please reach out and help guide those involved in this rapidly advancing phenomenon. There is a huge amount of instantly-deployable capital in Ethereum and Bitcoin, held by individuals now
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by jamespitts 9y ago
Metaphors are not as useful as historical analogies or actual descriptions of what is going on. Basically, a new form of fast finance has emerged, connected with a blockchain technology which enables the financing mechanism as well as poten
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by jamespitts 9y ago
Or... they can release tokens so we can fund its continued research and development.
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by jamespitts 9y ago
Amazing dedication! What struck me about this person's situation is: why didn't he and other engineers there work together and jerry-rig something with a PC to interact with the Twin Famicom and on-screen keyboard using the trackb
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by jamespitts 10y ago
The protocol would likely not allow BATs to be earned in browsers not properly implementing the protocol (measuring attention on a web page while protecting privacy, etc). And then instances of Brave and any other browser implementing this
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by jamespitts 10y ago
Perhaps you might consider switching if that is the only way that you can get control over the information about you that leaks out on many pages that you visit, words on pages that your mouse hovers over, words that you type in, friends yo
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by jamespitts 10y ago
So will President Trump regulate or otherwise curtail the automation economy? His voter base would probably like him to.
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by jamespitts 10y ago
How do we get people to change something ominous yet moves slowly across generations? We're all afflicted with a short attention span and plenty of day-to-day problems, and we elect leaders to deal with the here and now. This issue aff
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by jamespitts 10y ago
It is not just price IMO, even though this is obviously a major factor. Several other things make this place hostile to families: - school system creates a somewhat unpredictable situation - not enough decent parks spread throughout the cit
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by jamespitts 10y ago
The big suggestion I have for your team is to structure live sessions with television-like scheduling. Early-on, a live experience web site does not have enough usage to generate a good time for users. I learned this while running rapt.fm,
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by jamespitts 10y ago
Could the early web have been developed into what it became with a "wait for it to work risk-free" mentality? Yes, the DAO was a reliable repository for 100s of $M, until it turned out that it wasn't. This case isn't the
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by jamespitts 10y ago
You are describing the condition but not addressing why it should be that way. IMO it is a basic human right to be able to live and thrive in our community. Of course I am not suggesting we all go live in the Hamptons and live it up. But it
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by jamespitts 10y ago
Agreed that the core issue is scarcity. Often scarcity can be addressed if the community decides that it is harmful or not necessary.
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by jamespitts 10y ago
Yeah that isn't for everyone! Whatever the category of neighborhood -- big city or small town or even country -- there are minimum requirements for a decent life that IMO the community is morally obligated to create.

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