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by neiman 3y ago
At first, I thought they used a cool new variation of something like VDF (Verifiable delay functions) or sequential proof of work to make a time lock. In these two options, you need to make a very long sequence of calculations to decrypt th
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Safecat: A ZK-snark friendly CLI tool for digital signatures(neimanslab.org)
3 points by neiman 3y ago|0 comments
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by neiman 3y ago
Oh yes, I even had a free IPNS pinning service (for community members mostly) built with a friend. https://dwebservices.xyz/
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by neiman 3y ago
I get told that a lot! xD My original aim was to write an IPFS blogging engine for my personal use, so I needed some dynamic loading from IPFS there. Now I switched to Jekyll, and it would be easier to host the blog on Github indeed, but I&
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by neiman 3y ago
> Maybe it is the case for ENS Oh yeah, I was referring strictly to IPFS+ENS websites. I have been working with it for several years so my mind goes for this use-case automatically.
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by neiman 3y ago
It worked fine before for many years when it was slightly less popular. They're having growing pains due to scalability problems and some libraries, like Helia (the JS library of IPFS), being new. I guess I'm also quite stubborn i
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I moved my blog from IPFS to a server(neimanslab.org)
330 points by neiman 3y ago|166 comments
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by neiman 3y ago
I got one from a hackerspace outside Germany.
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by neiman 4y ago
Which country is this from? I don't feel it fits where I live at all.
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by neiman 4y ago
It has a unique identifier of data (their main feature), a naming system and some other features, that makes it quite different than bittorrent (as far as two p2p sharing data networks can be different, obviously).
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by neiman 4y ago
> Minecraft does not ban users for profanity. The list of ban offenses is currently: Are you quoting reality of a FAQ? I don't believe the FAQ rules of Microsoft much more than I believe 10 years old kids.
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by neiman 4y ago
For me creating an account is a sort of payment.
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by neiman 5y ago
Build computer games is both harmless fun and the dream of many people. So surely you shouldn't take a mortgage to do that with so many games in the market, but otherwise this article is the worse motivational talk I've ever seen.
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by neiman 5y ago
I envy you for believing that big companies, like Paypal, always do things to small customers for a reason. Really.
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by neiman 5y ago
It's a technological problem. The SEPA system relies on MANY providers giving a many services. Replaces it with a technology that doesn't rely on any providers but instead allowing direct transfer of money from one person to anoth
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by neiman 5y ago
Which one?
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by neiman 5y ago
> Saying "it can be done in 20 seconds with crypto" is really only half the truth. At the end of the day we all need fiat money. Fair point.
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by neiman 5y ago
Wise (Germany->Poland) is the one who took me 4 days (Friday->Tuesday)... I have no idea how you did an instant transfer from Sweden to Poland.
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by neiman 5y ago
You're probably right. I really wrote a too general remark, but actually meant specific things about my situation. I added a part now taking this general statement back.
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by neiman 5y ago
Open-source has the great advantage that it's auditable by everyone, hence the trust is distributed. That's a comment for open-source in general, not about blockchains.
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by neiman 5y ago
Part of the transaction I described (which was personal) involved a bank transfer between two EU states, and it's simply not true. It's not instantly, doesn't work 24/7 (a transaction made on Friday arrived on Tuesday),
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by neiman 5y ago
I transfer all my financial actions to my accountant who's reporting it while instructing me what I need to do further. Compliance and reporting really differ from one country to another, and I'm not familiar with the US system (w
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by neiman 5y ago
Sure. "Remotely send money" is a super hard thing to do. I literally just struggled for a month with a transfer that included 3 countries, none of them is English speaking. It required letters from banks, accountants, plenty of fo
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by neiman 5y ago
It seems you are looking for a product blockchain enables you, but there are activities the blockchain enables which are not products, and are very difficult up to impossible without. One example is sustainable (financially) open-source pro
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by neiman 5y ago
I care about decentralization.
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by neiman 5y ago
The comments here show, again, that this is maybe the most charged topic in hackernews. Why is this topic so charged? Is it because the environmental damage (but then PoS should change it)? or because there's money involved (but then E
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by neiman 5y ago
This shows ignorance more than anything. "people we know don't use RSS, hence no one uses it, hence it's obsolete".
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by neiman 5y ago
This is a fantastic work! The best part of Federalist is reading and displaying the websites from BitTorrent using BEP-46. The Handshake part is less impressive for me personally, since it basically reads Handshake values from a service (qu
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by neiman 5y ago
I dedicated the last 3 years of my life to build "web3". In my case it means building a new democratic Internet (whatever that means) on top of ENS+IPFS. I a few projects in this direction, the current one is Esteroids. Is this a
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by neiman 5y ago
It's probably not, but how many people are willing to go to court? Something similar happened to me in Germany in 2020. I consulted a lawyer and gave up. Going to court for someone with my personality is a very harmful process, and the

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