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by pshc 5y ago
Royalties is a funny example because a) they’re being standardized, see eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2981 and b) royalties are entirely opt-in. You can happily transfer NFTs without having to pay royalties if you forgo an exchange t
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by pshc 5y ago
Few people bother because every git commit is cryptographically signed and every git repo is inherently replicated. It doesn’t matter if you use a centralized service or not as long as you can rely on SHA1 (and sha256 is coming…) Git is alm
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by pshc 5y ago
> Do you actually think blockchain tech is remotely competitive with the big platforms? Right now? Absolutely not, web3 is pure jank right now. I’m just trying to see where the puck is headed. > I personally prefer to focus on mitigat
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by pshc 5y ago
That’s fair. I was talking about canonicalized chain state (hence RPC), not consensus about what constitutes spam. I agree that OpenSea should not have final say in this regard, as clearly that is not decentralized. I would be interested to
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by pshc 5y ago
I hear you! And I remember. Every startup that goes big eventually becomes the thing they were supposed to obsolete, because all the incentives point that way. Moats! I hope that this time is different, because we can now deploy code that i
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by pshc 5y ago
Changing your RPC url will make no difference because you’ll get the same result either way. Any service that lies about the state of the chain will quickly be jettisoned like so much carbon dioxide. The bare minimum for a reputable NFT is
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by pshc 5y ago
Yes, web2 incumbents control data and they control distribution. I agree with you there! aside; sometimes I feel like I’m taking crazy pills because for the last decade or so on HN we’ve been talking about how Big Tech has monopoly control
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by pshc 5y ago
It is quite difficult because indeed everyone has a profit motive to shill. The only way I could get a good read on anything was by experimenting with the tech.
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by pshc 5y ago
It’s not the same as web2. These web3 frontends don’t have moats or lock-in like Facebook or Google, because they don’t actually control the data. The data they serve is all from public ledgers. You can switch off of Infura in a second by c
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by pshc 5y ago
I agree, one can’t easily tie an NFT to a physical object. Nothing guarantees that the watch and NFT change ownership in tandem. All I’m saying is that a serial number doesn’t really prove anything because it’s trivial to copy. A private ke
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by pshc 5y ago
> Couldn't Rolex issue a PGP signed CSV of all valid Rolex serial numbers once a month on IPFS and you'd get the exact same security and trust profile without having to involve any "web3" feature? A serial number can
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by pshc 5y ago
The perils of valuing backwards compatibility above all else… imagine having to use UTF16 in this day and age. Happy 2022!
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by pshc 5y ago
I can understand the company pulling usernames from an automated name squatter... but I wonder if this happens to fully established accounts too?
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by pshc 5y ago
Is Bronze memory safe?
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by pshc 5y ago
On the plus side, once you get a good websocket steady state going, the efficiency and latency benefits are nice compared to HTTP1 polling. Maybe not that big of an advantage anymore with HTTP2 popping off.
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by pshc 5y ago
This is true if you have unsafe in your code, but I’m talking about Rust codebases with no unsafe blocks. (Which really any normal Rust app should adhere to, exactly for this sort of reason.)
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by pshc 5y ago
When you write Rust normally (without unsafe) you can mechanically verify it to be memory safe, whereas C++ is... well who knows really it's a 80s language, but if you follow <guidelines> maybe you're OK? Add any number of s
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by pshc 5y ago
The beacon chain has been operational for a year now. Progress is slow and steady.
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by pshc 5y ago
Why blame web3? Proof of work (Bitcoin specifically) is the entity pouring lighter fluid on the planet. Bitcoin isn't even part of web3. If we want to realistically reduce CO2 emissions by cryptocurrencies, displacing Bitcoin and other
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by pshc 5y ago
Dear zohopublic.com: please use real <a> anchor tags for hyperlinks instead of restyled <span>s, thank you
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by pshc 5y ago
>40ms latency is insane if true. Got a source?
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by pshc 5y ago
The future will not be built on XML.
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by pshc 5y ago
Gawker did come back FWIW. Not that I've heard a peep from them since they re-launched.
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by pshc 5y ago
The system is fault tolerant. You typically get 99.X% participating. Any validator that doesn't perform their duty in a timely fashion is penalized and eventually ejected if they are disruptive. Those private keys are useless unless yo
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by pshc 5y ago
It's similar in that 8k sigs are collected and coalesced to sign something. From there the differences begin. M-of-N schemes must be orchestrated ahead of time, using Shamir's or by constructing a BTC multisig UTXO or something. W
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by pshc 5y ago
Whoever the 260k are (and I know some of them) if they’re all one entity, they would have had to stake eight million ETH and counting into the ETH2 deposit contract. The 8k are randomly selected from this pool of 260k validators via RanDAO
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by pshc 5y ago
I have to say I appreciate your transparency in directly Bitcoin shilling. > If you compromise or coerce enough validators, you can rewrite the history for no cost. If you can. You would need to compromise thousands of randomly selecte
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by pshc 5y ago
Here’s a recent ETH2 block: https://beaconcha.in/block/2604970#votes It was voted for by 8000+ validators. Many of them have been validating since beacon chain genesis a year ago. There are like 260k validators active
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by pshc 5y ago
Is this FUD from Bitcoin maximalists? > That key is valid to sign any number of versions of, let’s say, block #200, and there is no objective, system-internal standard for which version is legitimate, other than “the one that was publis
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by pshc 5y ago
I think they're talking more about the Pull Request interface with nice diffs, comments, automated tests and builders, status checks and so on... You totally could develop in the kernel workflow, everything done over email, but are you

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