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by spir 7y ago
I ran an information site for an Ethereum project[1] and was pleased to see that our first revenue came from visitors' BAT donations. It wasn't a lot of money. But, it was fully automatic and easy to use. Our site earned BAT befor
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by spir 7y ago
This only used to be true. The state of the art of Ethereum has very effective microtransactions. This will improve again by orders of magnitude within the next three years. For example, see https://comingsoon.idex.io/ whic
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by spir 7y ago
I spend a lot of time studying blockchain and Ethereum and wanted to clarify your remarks. You need some sort of cryptocurrency for this as microtransactions don't really work in the legacy system. Yes, you're right: Et
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Here's how monetary and non-monetary transaction costs are relevant to a Coca-Cola supply chain -- Blockchain (ie. Ethereum) excels when a heterogenous network of 3rd and 4th parties come together in a commons and interact permissionle
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by spir 7y ago
Yes, I'd agree that, today, typically nobody is checking to make sure that an Ethereum transaction is legal. But, it's important to understand that Ethereum is not a replacement for or opponent of KYC, AML, or checking if transact
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Blockchain (ie. Ethereum) is, overall, a reducer of monetary and non-monetary transaction costs. Example of reduced monetary transaction costs: The current Ethereum gas price for a token transfer is $0.04 ( https://ethgasstation.i
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Because while the core innovation of blockchain is a trusted database a context without trust, the core benefit of blockchain is reduced transaction costs. A blockchain is a singleton global computer of program code and data. It turns out t
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Why I like Scala(medium.com)
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by spir 7y ago
> a digital currency backed by a floating basket of currencies This will be live by the end of 2019 in a similar form. The MakerDAO stablecoin system on the Ethereum blockchain produces the DAI stablecoin, with 1 DAI pegged at 1 USD. The
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by spir 7y ago
Thanks!
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noric-bot has been extremely useful as a test tool, if a bit narrow due to just spamming random cmds. To your point, the bot in its present form can't automatically run a dungeon or verify edge cases. A previous version of the server c
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by spir 7y ago
The project isn't open source or playable yet. Working on a playable demo! I'm active on the MUD Discord. I'm registered for the MUD Coders Guild but am allergic to Slack :p ryanb#6419 on Discord
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Thanks for the feedback. I have updated the README to use less inflammatory language and be more specific that the comparison is just for the type system. The new text is For me, from a type system perspective, going from TypeScript t
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Really polished UI!
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If you like MUDs check out the new, excellent, and often-updated https://www.titansoftext.com podcast :-)
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Thanks, updated.
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Fair enough. I try to spend as little time as possible on the bot and more time on the game itself :-) The bot you describe sounds cool -- would love to see it!
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Show HN: Noric-bot – A bot to stress-test text-based MUDs, written in Scala 3(github.com)
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To improve this, the broker can throw out the best performing clients, since they might genuinely know what they’re doing. This practice is pervasive in sports betting. It's a common practice to ban winners, especially in t
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Such a 51% attack is much more expensive in Ethereum 2.0 vs. Ethereum 1.0 and Bitcoin: The cost profile of a repeated 51% attack in [Ethereum 2.0's Proof of Stake] is as if “your ASIC farm burned down” with each additional round.
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Scala 3 launches in 2020 after a new compiler was written over a five year period. The new compiler is named "Dotty". A Tour of Scala 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rnrx2lo9cw Also, GraalVM's ahead of tim
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The USA should plan to have less control over global finance by the year 2035(medium.com)
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The Libra whitepaper is supposed to debut this month, so I guess we'll see to what extent it's a true cryptocurrency. I wish Libra was building on an Ethereum scaling technology, like Plasma, but most likely it's a new standa
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IPFS is providing some value already for blockchain dapps to deploy UIs, albeit currently with a dependency on centralized ipfs gateways. Eg. https://augur.net/ipfs-redirect.html
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I just became a registered human courtesy of Humanity DAO and now get $1/mo UBI(tokeneconomy.co)
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Interesting, I wonder if this could be used to dodge the "employee vs contractor" problem that companies like Uber have. Instead of having 100k contractors that might be employees, convert 100k contractors into 40k small transport
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The Valley of Mismatch The Tough Tomato Principle is not a mere side effect of innovation. It’s necessary for the new technology to express its full potential. You can’t use your shiny new tomato harvester until you’ve got the
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Facebook wants to be WeChat and it’s best done with cryptocurrency(medium.com)
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What the World Will Get from Blockchain – A List of the Benefits of Blockchain(medium.com)
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by spir 8y ago
Came here to plug for Tufte. "What’s the lesson here?", asks the article. It seems to me the lesson is don't hire UX designers that are ignorant of basic seminal work in UX.

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