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buying a stock on web2 vs web3 gives interesting properties because of ownership. for ex: take an instant USD loan on your stock, since you are the owner only your authority(signat…

for me, cannabis is only useful for sleep and sometimes blank canvas thinking.

some of the cc0 licensed NFTs encourage replicas :) nouns.wtf

will minting a replica give me gated access to discord? or showcase my collection on gallery.so? also some of the popular NFTs these days are cc0 licensed, so they do in fact encou…

1. Social recovery methods. 2. Even if you use a hardware wallet you still need to backup your seed phrase offline.

there is practically no attack vector in using infura. Infura can't fake your can't fake your cryptographic signature. Worst case, they censor txs from your address at which point …

If you are an optimist, HN is not the right place to have a "pro" discussion imo. I will outline products that i'm most excited about or use regularly . 1. Decentralized exchanges:…

I mostly optimize for dev time over performance. Next.js, Vercel + API functions, DigitalOcean postgres with Prisma. The biggest dev bottleneck for me was styling & css(mostly beca…

I believe all NFTs should be in public domain, in the same spirit as open-source. recent NFT projects like Nouns[1] and many others have taken this approach! [1] https://nouns.wtf

https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/03/23/legitimacy.html "Legitimacy is a pattern of higher-order acceptance. An outcome in some social context is legitimate if the people in that soc…

Maybe. Most popular mixers are now open source, wasabi, samourai, tornado.cash

It is more like a regular bank than anything else. A bank that uses a different transport network. That's why decentralized stable coins like DAI and others exist :)

the smart contract has a blacklist flag that can be activated by the Tether, this prevents on-chain transfers. https://etherscan.io/token/0xdac17f958d2ee523a2206206994597c... The U…

have been enjoying using Cascadia Code

> Blockchains are for trustless systems Not necessarily. Permissionless access, composability and public data are still useful which is not possible in regulated environments.

Psychology is probabilistic science, that's the best we can do given the complexities of the mind. If you want to get a taste of rigor in psychology I suggest you read some of the …

most problems in startup like environments(particularly from my experience in social networks), "understanding the problem" is not as easy. That's why trial and error, moving fast …

1) Decentralization is a spectrum, BTC -> ETH -> SOL, AWS will be really difficult to get some blockchain properties: permissionless & composability. For smart contract platforms, …

konnakol https://youtu.be/ZAVZtCZV9aI

will they also go behind developers working on decentralized "Mixer"s like Wasabi/Joinmarket?

As long as selling ASIC's are profitable -> more R&D and eventually everyone has access to the most capable ASIC's. Off the top of my head, data from 2 years back(things might have…

sorry, I read it wrong trying to compare it to bitcoin. I think the author is only demonstrating PoW/PoS and not Bitcoin itself. > Other students are paying in bricks? This is the …

the bricks are the blocks not the currency, here the value is in able to write their own names on the bricks with a sharpie.

> but without 2 years of constantly solving sudoku under their belt, they couldn't compete with the more experienced sudoku-solvers Inaccurate analogy. Miners are more limited by c…

no evidence. looks like some random post.