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by jatsign 9y ago
That helps, thanks.
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by jatsign 9y ago
I like the idea of transparent salaries, but does a "transparent" formula ever become so convoluted, and open to gaming, that the company may as well just not bother? It can be argued that not disclosing salaries is a way to suppr
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Ouroboros(tokenrock.com)
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by jatsign 9y ago
I used to use Mashape for an API service I provide, but they recently transitioned (sold?) their marketplace to RapidAPI. I've been happy with the move, as RapidAPI seems to be working hard to improve the API-provider portal.
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by jatsign 9y ago
- Ether isn't price-stable, which is the whole point of this project. - The spot price of Ether is found via Oracalize query to cryptocompare's api. - I'm getting rid of the bonus sale idea, as many people had that concern.
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by jatsign 9y ago
It is pegged to the USD. A "pegged" currency means it's a fixed exchange rate. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/currency-peg.asp
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by jatsign 9y ago
The oraclize query will get data from cryptocompare.com, which is an aggregate.
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by jatsign 9y ago
I've gone back and forth on this. Current plan is to use Oracalize. http://www.oraclize.it/
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by jatsign 9y ago
For a normal person/business to ever use a cryptocurrency, there needs to be one that is price stable. Meaning it's going to be worth the same $ tomorrow that it's worth today. Imagine if you could send money anywhere, with a
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by jatsign 9y ago
The reserve will be in Ethereum (and possibly also in ERC20 tokens like OMG), not USD. You buy Unum using these other cryptocurrencies, and can always sell Unum to buy anything in the reserve, always at the current USD spot price. This of c
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by jatsign 9y ago
I would really like a camera that would log when deer, or other wildlife aside from squirrels, are in my backyard.
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by jatsign 9y ago
That makes sense, thanks. I hadn't thought of making it hard-coded (or just set at construction). The examples I'd seen were "upgradable" tokens.
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by jatsign 9y ago
I've had success listening to events using web3, against both testrpc and geth (on private and test networks). What version of web3 & testrpc are you using?
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by jatsign 9y ago
The 500 lines of code is, to be clear, just a guesstimate. It really is related to how those lines of code are compiled into Ethereum opcodes. Maybe you can get a thousand lines of code. My point is that it's pretty small, compared to
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by jatsign 9y ago
If one bitcoin were worth $100 million, then one "satoshi" (the smallest unit in bitcoin) would be worth a buck. So, 8 units of precision is probably plenty.
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by jatsign 9y ago
Most of the time by using 18 decimals. One "Ether" is 10^18 "wei", the smallest unit of currency. Most cryptotokens built on ethereum also use that many units...but not all. Bitcoin is, IIRC, 8 units of precision.
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by jatsign 9y ago
And it's exasperated by the fact that most Tokens use 18 decimal places of precision. So "1" would be 1000000000000000000. As a programmer, I just found it harder to reason about numbers like that. I ran into problems testing
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by jatsign 9y ago
And Litecoin just hit $100. And of course bitcoin hit $10k. I invest a little bit each week in a lot of coins. I'm a fan of cryptocurrencies. And I gotta say, this is crazy. I've had a few people ask me if they should invest now,
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What If Autonomous Cars Just Never Happen?(jalopnik.com)
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by jatsign 9y ago
Drop shipping. Haven't done it, don't recommend it, but I see it mentioned in places like https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/
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by jatsign 9y ago
I've been programing my own Ethereum smart contract (virtual currency) for awhile now. Here's some gotchas off the top of my head: - You have about 500 lines of code to work with. This of course varies, but smart contracts have to
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by jatsign 9y ago
I did, and it seemed like a good solution, except I wanted to be able to instantly get the price info, and town crier is a request/response method. The Price Oracle part of unum caches the price, so I can use a .call method from the Un
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by jatsign 9y ago
This may explain: https://ark-guide.readme.io/v1.0/docs/what-are-delegates There are a few currencies doing delegate so I may have confused "super delegates" with another currency.
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by jatsign 9y ago
For now that's just a plan. Assuming people become interested in, and start using Unum, I'll post more about it on the blog. For now, I'd really appreciate any help in getting people to take a look at Unum. https:/&#x2F
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by jatsign 9y ago
1) Contract owner CANNOT withdraw ETH. 2) True. The Price Oracle is a separate contract that I want to modify to be more like Ark's superdelegate method - a certain number of delegates stake Unum and get to control the price oracle, an
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by jatsign 9y ago
When you buy Unum, the smart contract looks up the price of ETH and gives you a dollar equivalent of Unum. So if you send in $400 worth of ETH, you get 400 Unum. Then, a month from now, if you want to sell Unum and get ETH, maybe the price
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by jatsign 9y ago
There is no bank account, just the smart contract. It holds the Ether, OMG, or whatever other cryptocurrency you send to it when you buy Unum. There's a function on the contract to return the total reserve in USD, or you can check th
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by jatsign 9y ago
Of those indicators, which is most concerning to you? I think I'd lean towards public debt...
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by jatsign 9y ago
The fatal flaw in Tether is that you have to trust the company behind it. The whole point of cryptocurrency is you shouldn't have to trust anyone. And the company itself is so opaque it should send you running to the hills. I've
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Inside the downfall of Doppler Labs(wired.com)
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