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Magic, a passwordless login SDK that secretly onboards users to Ethereum(magic.link)
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Tuesday 24 March comparison of coronavirus testing in USA vs. South Korea(twitter.com)
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Covid testing positivity rate USA vs. South Korea over last three days(github.com)
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A CLI report to show percent of newly tested people that have the coronavirus(github.com)
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by spir 7y ago
Citizens that are given Helicopter Money or UBI will then spend it at their discretion. This kind of free money is a complement to, not a failure of, capitalism.
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by spir 7y ago
Many of us in the cryptocurrency community always knew this wasn't true. Unfortunately it's a misconception that was long and frequently advertised as recently as last week.
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by spir 7y ago
Do any of these roles involve writing software?
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by spir 7y ago
How does Google "select heavily for generalists" when the interview is almost entirely comp sci? Perhaps you mean "computer science generalist". Afaik, the only way for me to get a software offer from Google is to spend
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by spir 7y ago
Congrats! Awesome that you use Scala!
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$1B locked in Ethereum's DeFi(imgur.com)
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Does the act of burning Ethereum transaction fees increase ETH's market cap?(twitter.com)
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Proof of work costs Ethereum $700M+ per year and it's going away soon(medium.com)
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by spir 7y ago
I don't disagree :) There's no silver bullet for 51% attacks, and proof of work uses unconscionable amounts of electricity, which is why Ethereum is transitioning to proof of stake.
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by spir 7y ago
Interesting article on this topic: https://blog.coinbase.com/how-coinbase-views-proof-of-work-s... Also, Ethereum is transitioning to proof of stake which will make attacks much more expensive because an attacker must acqui
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by spir 7y ago
Yes, Ethereum is transitioning to proof of stake. Proof of stake is more secure than proof of work because an attacker must acquire a large amount of ETH each time they attempt an attack. Attacks against proof of stake are incredibly capita
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by spir 7y ago
> cryptocurrency era Cryptocurrencies and their associated boom-bust market cycles are here to stay. 95% of blockchain development happens on Ethereum, and Ethereum is growing well, https://medium.com/@jjmstark/the-y
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by spir 7y ago
> AFAIK there aren't really any good solutions to prevent this problem https://blog.coinbase.com/how-coinbase-views-proof-of-work-s... > Coins at the greatest risk of 51% attack are the ones where there exists la
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The Year in Ethereum 2019(medium.com)
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by spir 7y ago
As a technical matter, it will be cheap and convenient for an Ethereum user to buy $200 of an asset one hundred times instead of $20,000 of that asset once. Programmatic money has a blurring effect on the definition of a "transaction&q
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by spir 7y ago
A hundred years ago a wonderful slender book was written, "How To Live On 24 Hours A Day" by Arnold Bennett. He suggests getting up early and doing your passion projects before work. https://www.amazon.com/How-Live
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by spir 7y ago
The interest rates are set by a governance group that collects data on supply/demand for the DAI stablecoin. The interest rates are a reactionary function of global spot supply and demand for DAI. Their governance calls are open, you c
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by spir 7y ago
> whatever that crazy contraption is The people who built "that crazy contraption" are pioneers in an industry that is going to help lift hundreds of millions out of poverty via cheap, non-predatory financial services and creat
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by spir 7y ago
Have you guys considered decoupling your physical cash technology from the underlying token? Physical DAI or ETH would be most excellent.
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by spir 7y ago
I recently learned that Scala.js doesn't yet support generating TypeScript *.d.ts type definitions. I intend to open a Gitcoin bounty to get this work done. Have you had any success using Scala.js-generated JavaScript in TypeScript pro
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Why ETH has intrinsic value based on free cash flow(reddit.com)
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by spir 7y ago
Phase 0 of Ethereum v2 arrives in Q1 2020. Coming since 2014 but finally arriving :) Proof of stake reduces the issuance of new ETH to pay for the cost of securing the network. It's cheaper than paying miners. And anybody can buy ETH t
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Most users of Ethereum are FinCEN money transmitters. Where do we go from here?(twitter.com)
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Walmart Canada Launches Largest Blockchain for Supply Chain Management Ever(newswire.ca)
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by spir 7y ago
We should support public goods like the Ethereum Name Service https://ens.domains/ You can register a domain at https://app.ens.domains/
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by spir 7y ago
.eth, the Ethereum Name System. https://ens.domains/ You can register an ENS domain here https://app.ens.domains/ ENS is mature, but the tld is not yet wired into dns. For now there is a bridge of *.eth.lin

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