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by spinny 5y ago
correct. the cost of the Bitcoin network, at least in terms of energy is the sum of all the energy spent mining so far. this is also what values the network and makes it secure. it's a very efficient method to convert raw energy into a
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by spinny 5y ago
Of course bloomberg doesn't understand NFTs. Can we please stop with all the NFT stupidity that's been going on. At least here on HN people should be able the make the distinction. NFTs (Non Fungible Tokens) is just a method to re
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by spinny 5y ago
i'm familiar with those (yubikey and titan, didn't knew about krypt). Don't own any of those but always install the FIDO U2F [1] app on my ledger hardware wallets (which is a nice extra). my issue with using a physical device
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by spinny 5y ago
have you ignored the "public data" part on my comment ?? why do you twist "owning your identity" to mean putting everything about you "somewhere public" (like a blockchain)
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by spinny 5y ago
websites that are related to cryptos do it, others generally don't. try dappradar.com/ for example
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by spinny 5y ago
> My point was usability. And being (effectively) forced to join / legitimize their hive to get anything done I agree with you on this. For the purpose of login in with a private key, i would prefer some browser extension (or built
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by spinny 5y ago
It can. It just happens that the easiest way to achieve this is using web3, even if there is no blockchains involved. The article is about login methods, not cryptos or web3
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by spinny 5y ago
You are missing the point. The article is about login methods. Username/password vs message signed with a private key. The blockchain part is there because is the only ready-to-use way to do it in an browser. It's absurd how HN us
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by spinny 5y ago
People already use ENS do register a <some-name>.eth name to the respective ethereum address. It's also easy to write a smart contract that keeps meta-info on an address. This data would be public. > Why does currency and mone
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by spinny 5y ago
> It's questionable that more than one maybe two blockchains will be supported You don't really need a blockchain unless you need to keep data on a blockchain. To login and identify a user you can simply sign a message. I consi
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by spinny 5y ago
collect a load of transactions (somehow): by this you mean the mempool. the implementation is client dependent, it uses the p2p network to receive new txs, thats what you need to look at to know how to "get txs from the network".
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by spinny 5y ago
"How do I make a transaction / mine a block?" that's a "how does it works ?" kind of question, you need to know how all the small parts work to explain the functionality. Yes, some aspects you need to look at t
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by spinny 5y ago
Seems super unlikely that somebody with a HN account can't find docs for defi projects that in most cases have github accounts with available contracts and api docs, doesn't it? Maybe it's just deceptive
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by spinny 5y ago
It's a bit unfair to make that comparison. Most technical hacks are always present until somebody abuses it, to make a fair comparison the bank would have to _always_ be left unlocked and unmanned The guarantee that a bank gives is not
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by spinny 5y ago
If you loose you crypto in a dex hack you have my sympathy, if you got rugged with a "double your crypto" kind of scheme or some mooncoin, there is no sympathy for you. The same applies for fiat. This does not make you a victim, i
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by spinny 5y ago
> Hum, I've never seen generics making code harder to reason about in any language, except, of course for C++, where they are hacked over text. do you mean templates? i was under the impression that c++ generics == templates, but af
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by spinny 5y ago
Wrote Go code daily for quite some time, also tried Rust. I like Go because of the tooling and simplicity of the language, it's easy to learn and explain. Rust has the borrow checker has a corner stone. The concept mutability and refer
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by spinny 5y ago
While generics are definitely useful to implement container types, it seems that the Go design seems to prevent that. It seems to me that generics get overused when the language allows you operator overloading for example. Go is a "one
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by spinny 5y ago
not really sure what you mean by "unnatural systems", but nfts are just a way to represent a unique thing on a blockchain. EIP721 defines the interface to this unique thing. It's nothing more than a set of functions that enab
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by spinny 5y ago
laowhy86, serpentza
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by spinny 5y ago
He is actually very clear on that. He is anti-CCP. China != CCP
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by spinny 5y ago
I wonder if the readers/commenters realize there is a massive blackout about this in China. All this propaganda is directed at us. check Laowhy86's video about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dc4tNY7S6Q
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by spinny 5y ago
pretend you are a google bot. can also check the cached version
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by spinny 5y ago
> That sums up everything to do with NFTs for me. The smell remains rotten and I will, again, run away and fast. NFTs are just a way to represent something unique on a blockchain. The smell comes from the pixel art NFTs. Your position on
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by spinny 5y ago
looked into this some time ago after watching a video[1] about Lightshot don't recall the addresses involved but the set of domains was different, the interface looked similar to the screenshots. This was a 6+ months ago at least, the
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by spinny 5y ago
97% peaceful
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by spinny 5y ago
I read quite a lot of smart contract code, both on Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain. It seems to more common on BSC the deployment using the upgradable proxy pattern. This is probably because is more attractive to incoming devs (lower fees,
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by spinny 5y ago
People think PoS is "the future" of crypto, but don't understand that you have to lock something of value in the network worth staking. A PoS crypto only works if there is an initial pre-sale (many of the ICO cryptos), or sta
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by spinny 5y ago
> Fundamentally it's the antithesis to democracy. Really? A small group of people controlling the money supply is democracy to you?? What do you see as democratic in the fiat money system? > The fundamental political issue with c
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by spinny 5y ago
> If only ivermectin was available without a prescription... please don't. if it needs a prescription, probably there is a reason for it

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