magicjosh

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   by magicjosh 5y ago

   Getting Tim Wu to analyze cryptocurrencies with his lens of networks and centralization would be a real treat.
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   by magicjosh 5y ago

   This article also helps me appreciate how important the "small node" approach is. Bitcoin and Ethereum nodes can run on $200 of hardware (a basic Raspberry Pi + 1 TB drive). And even that investment is inaccessible to most.
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   by magicjosh 5y ago

   This is the premise [1] of $SOS token - though I haven't seen anything substantial, just what's on their website and in a few articles [2]. [1] https://www.theopendao.com/ [2] https://decrypt.co/89
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   by magicjosh 5y ago

   I haven't heard of Arweave before, but yes, the [1] link above doesn't show any results either in the "Browse" or "Search" mode. The premise sounds interesting though. Is this a bug of some sort or does someone
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   by magicjosh 5y ago

   Would that be effective for low-res images like cryptopunks? Or can I create other 24 x 24 px images that have the same hash?
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   by magicjosh 5y ago

   On a related note - how is Protonmail's new full-text search? Saw it launched recently.
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   by magicjosh 5y ago

   Bizarre that .xyz got this coverage and not ENS. Was there a similar article about .eth / ENS? That seems like the root story...xyz is just a traditional domain branded as crypto and doing light integrations with ENS. Maybe a paid arti
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   by magicjosh 5y ago

   OpenSea is just one attempt and it's pretty centralized. That's part of why SOS is getting so much hype, a decentralized auction platform along the lines of Uniswap but for NFTs.
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   by magicjosh 5y ago

   Nice turnaround! Yes, OpenSea is centralized. That's part of the hype around SOS as an alternative, creating a decentralized NFT exchange instead. Content hosting is also centralized (ie on Google Drive or at a URL). NFTs can be decent
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    by magicjosh 5y ago

    To the author: you would have fun checking out IPFS. It's a decentralized way to host your site. It's still in its infancy, and slow...but your site will be plenty fast on IPFS. Check out fleek.co for an easy way to start hosting
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    by magicjosh 5y ago

    IPFS is still super slow, but can work well for raw HTML sites like this. For example http://vitalik.eth.link is hosted on IPFS. It's a simple text blog and is pretty fast.
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    by magicjosh 5y ago

    I would like to read a more thorough and thoughtful analysis of this perspective. Am I indeed inside the bubble of a giant pyramid scheme? If so, what does that say about me and my judgement? On the flip side, what if all this blockchain&#x
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    by magicjosh 5y ago

    This seems like one of those GPT3 articles assigned to take a quote about "quality" and shoehorn it into a narrative about recent stock prices. For those who upvoted what did you like about the article? Actually is there any kind
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    by magicjosh 5y ago

    Sounds like they enjoyed the process of building it. I would have appreciated more points at the end about recommendations for building. The takeaways #1 and #2 at the end are about marketing. Sure, you didn't market it but who cares,