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Does anyone know where the actual latest design for ETH 2.0 sharding is? Whitepaper/repo because w/o sharding you can't scale layer 1, and if you don't scale layer 1, you can't add…

I can't cite that example, I just have a friend whose parents are there tell me a story about how they were saying how pretty the snow flurries were and how he had to inform them a…

One of my current concerns is that the demonization of climate scientists over the last 30 years has resulted in models that underestimate the timelines of how bad things get. Not …

I looked into it. It is next to impossible to get. It doesn't take a crazy amount of money to get it, but from what I've experienced it looks like it takes a ton of wealth + the ri…

> but pointing to a factory that pollutes because you buy their products and want their product cheaply is equally inane Agreed, but I'm not pointing at the factories. Consumers _c…

Welcome to climate change in the 21st century, where we'll be outraged/distracted by everything but how ~100 companies are responsible for 70% of global emissions[1]. Today we’ll b…

There is an example of directly scaling PoW that's been in prod for 1.5 years now: https://explorer.chainweb.com/mainnet Instead of having X PH of PoW difficulty for a single block…

Not totally sure, but maybe this book? Fun read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Fifteen_Lives_of_Har...

> These aren't street dealers. It's an organized, carefully designed, well-oiled machine. How does this machine work? How does it survive the loss of so many members? Narconomics[1…

The problem with Proof of Work is that it is too inefficient and not that it consumes too much energy. If bitcoin could do 100k transactions per second globally, no one would be ta…

SWITH gpi was announced in 2015, piloted in 2016, and incorporated a blockchain PoC in 2017[1]. While only SWIFT knows if cryptocurrency was part of the conversation at the start, …

She is. I had the pleasure of working with her on in the distributed ledger tech working group (back when it was still the cryptocurrency working group) when she founded it in 2013…

Or you can just use graph theory to make PoW efficient & more secure[1][2]. Skip to page 11 of [1] for a quick visual summary. [1] http://kadena.io/docs/chainweb.pdf [2] https://ww…

Is one of them Juno? https://github.com/kadena-io/juno . If so, I was lead eng on it so let me know if you have any questions. FYI we're hiring haskell devs to work on our private …

It's a fair read, the private blockchain market is underserved/misserved by the "widely" used platforms (IBM Fabric/R3 Corda). The thing that most everyone misses (including IBM an…

They also have different scaling tradeoffs as they scale really well (the graph can be arbitrarily wide as tx's can run in parallel) when most transactions are causally unrelated b…

Kadena | Software Engineer | REMOTE, ONSITE (Brooklyn, NY) | Full-Time $80k-$150k + Coin and/or Equity Kadena is seeking Haskell engineers to join our team either in Brooklyn or re…

> I predict that 10 years from now normal relational databases have infrastructure for shared, authenticated and verified rows and columns Agreed, though with the caveat that this …

If we're listing smart contract languages, Pact is worth looking at. Check the demo contracts in the web editor for `Hello World`: kadena.io/try-pact ;; Simulate message data speci…

You should check out Kadena's FOSS Pact[1] smart contract language as well. Though it currently only runs on our (disclosure: am co-founder) high-performance private blockchain sta…

Preface: lead for Juno & ScalableBFT First, some additional benchmarks: * Juno (w/ hardcoded language): 500 tx/s * TendermintBFT w/ EVM: 1k tx/s * ScalableBFT w/ Pact: 8k tx/s The …

For skeptics like this, I've had success bringing up the history of paper money and point out how it took ~250yrs for the idea that money was the medium of exchange to take over (1…

I had a long discussion about this topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14807779 > I think this is very inaccurate. Perhaps, though keep in mind I did say that it is "[…

> The validators are known, so any risk of a 51% attack arising from some miner collusion in China does not apply. That's just wrong. Dangerously so. Maybe I'm just missing somethi…