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Caulk: Lookup Arguments in Sublinear Time(eprint.iacr.org)
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by ricochet11 4y ago
there is private healthcare available in the uk for those who want to pay. it isnt nhs or nothing.
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by ricochet11 4y ago
at least for me in uk the cost of power has almost doubled the beginning of this year, and is expected to rise another 50% in october (the gov limits how much they can jump every 6 months). so i kind of agree with the other poster, power ha
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by ricochet11 4y ago
probably because one of their datacenters burnt down last year, youd like to think they are being extra cautious now.
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by ricochet11 4y ago
> The short version though is that Cloudflare is going to participate in the research and development of the core infrastructure that helps keep Ethereum secure, fast, as well as energy efficient for everyone. very interested to hear mor
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by ricochet11 4y ago
Most people wont run their own servers sure, but a large number of people and organisations will (and do). The more meaningful questions are around "how many people do we need to make this work?", there is a limit where the amount
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by ricochet11 4y ago
not long ago here where i live today it was illegal to be gay, i would have been locked up/ chemically "treated"/ killed. It took people doing illegal things and being able to organise and communicate to build their defe
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ZkPairing: ZkSNARKs for Elliptic Curve Pairings(0xparc.org)
1 points by ricochet11 4y ago|0 comments
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by ricochet11 4y ago
I would argue that pretty much all of the recent (past 5 years) advances in work on zkproofs is researched/funded/applied by cryptocurrency community. and imo this is the most important work in cryptography that is happening, actu
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by ricochet11 4y ago
The Green Homes Grant covers 2/3rds of the cost for improvements up to £10k. Part of the issue is people don't use the schemes and they get scrapped for not hitting targets.
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by ricochet11 4y ago
Exactly. NFT monthly sales volume is up ~1500% since the Dorsey tweet sale (down 1/3 from January highs though).
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by ricochet11 5y ago
Nearly all defi loans are overcollateralized. I deposit $100 of eth, borrow $50 of eth, convert to usdc and send to my bank. Six months later if the price of eth has gone up i need to buy more the $50 worth to repay my debt, if the price of
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by ricochet11 5y ago
How do we go about improving relations? How do we improve the lives of the people living under that awful regime? How do we give people ways to exit and escape, and have access to the freedoms we have?
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by ricochet11 5y ago
This is so sad, how does locking him up for 5 years really helps anyone? or keep anyone safer? He did something stupid maybe, but his work was exploring how digital systems can help bring peace to the world, and he thought a good place for
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by ricochet11 5y ago
surely a company is absolutely incentivized to share these priorities? every accident is a hit to their profits and pr.
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by ricochet11 5y ago
bitcoin energy use is around ~0.5% of total worldwide, so we can probably guess the Lebanon energy crisis isn't because of crypto.
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by ricochet11 5y ago
> Buterin’s favorite projects on the blockchain. Take Proof of Humanity, which awards a universal basic income—currently about $40 per month—to anyone who signs up > I can't even. Proof of humanity is a really great project imo (
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by ricochet11 5y ago
I'd be willing to bet crypto has made more Indian women rich than all the silicon valley startups combined. So its probably a move in the right direction?
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by ricochet11 5y ago
"I would rather Ethereum offend some people than turn into something that stands for nothing" - I love this call for more active political positioning in the community. This is political, it always has been. Let's embrace it.
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by ricochet11 5y ago
Seconding Dave Ackley as someone doing really fascinating work, his youtube documenting his research is full of great insights: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheT2TileProject
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by ricochet11 5y ago
i mean, the past couple of years as seen massive uptake of qr codes (at least in the uk) - restaurants, train/cinema tickets, nfts, payments, postage its probably the most public and normal qr codes have ever been
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by ricochet11 5y ago
the planet is fine, humans and our way of life maybe not... but imo shutting down cryptocurrencies will do absolutely nothing to change our course. maybe global, borderless, coordination and communication tools could be very useful though..
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by ricochet11 5y ago
There is no reason that the third-party cant be a contract with globally accessible permissionless apis, that let you borrow peer2peer or peer2protocol against your assets, and that upon you not repaying your debt liquidates your position (
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by ricochet11 5y ago
agree, ZKProofs are really interesting and i'm sure they will come to be used across lots of areas of the web and not just blockchain, though their use and development is most active in the blockchain space for how useful they are for
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by ricochet11 5y ago
> Having the promises of blockchain sold to us for years now without a single, useful purpose for it in sight other than, well, cryptobros. the issue is that we show the things being made and hn calls them all scams and ponzis and fraud.