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I enjoyed this article, i still never finished infinite jest as much as id like to. but this idea of burn-in is really interesting as a way to present ideas. I guess ill try again …

CirclesUBI and proof of humanity UBI Both basic income projects. Proof of humanity ubi tokens are more easily tradeable and meant to provide Sybil resistance to eth projects, but c…

You can join a staking pool with as little as you have. Just like joining a mining pool with your laptop. And you can get eth with gasless minting of nfts. Draw a picture and sell …

I equally find it strange that people continue to come to hackernews- the Silicon Valley VC startup land - and can’t grasp that the infrastructure for programmable money might have…

Can’t really talk beyond Europe viewpoint, so might be different elsewhere, but here in the UK the left often talks of removing Westminster central control and empowering smaller l…

I guess there creator of dogecoin always saw it as a joke, so this isn’t surprising. Cryptocurrency is about choice and voice. Coordination and communication tools. There are Ameri…

People are always surprised when I describe how bad the internet connection I have is here in the UK. 3meg down 0.2 up. If it rains or is too windy the connection dies. I’ve spoke …

That isn’t how it works. There isn’t a cap on validators so you can’t buy up a fixed percentage of the network. More people can always join. You will be diluted over time unless yo…

I agree, it seems like results are getting worse, a few years back I could ask a question and get an answer. Now I don't even bother and go straight to sites to search, be it wikip…

Youll be happy to hear there is a hackthon going on right now testing out the move onto PoS. https://rayonism.io/

The policy has always been “minimal viable issuance”

Worth pointing out “initial investors” is anyone who sent 1 btc to the crowdfund back in 2014. It wasnt some closed off thing for vcs, anyone could participate. People just bought …

FTX (crypto exchange) was one of Bidens biggest donors last year...

Really excited for the gnosis + radicle combination, being able to give ownership of a repo to a dao will be cool. Also https://daohaus.club/ has made it really easy to deploy a mo…

Similar I read a line a year or so ago (can’t remember where) that really stuck with me: All anyone ever really says is “I love you” or “help me”. I try remember this whenever I am…

Plenty of people doing it, defi exploded in use last summer mainly driven by collateralized debt positions in combination with lending tokens. Lock up ethereum -> borrow dai agains…

This is a tired take, Vitaliks position is not any greater than anyone else and there is nothing stopping anyone who has contributions from having the same level of participation. …

There is a difference (with the introduction of slashing and user activated soft forks) in 51% attacks that revert finalized blocks. In PoW this type of attack would become cheaper…

Matic is not an L2 though, it is a side chain. The reason L2s like optimism are exciting is because they inherit the security of ethereum mainnet. (matic has its own consensus mech…

The general idea is Layer 2s solve high gas. Most users will be using apps that run on a layer 2 and will make rare trips to the mainnet. The next thing being worked on is onboardi…

Most of the ethereum devs I know were bitcoin people first. Bitcoin is cool but you simply can’t do what you can do on ethereum. Remember Vitalik himself worked for bitcoin magazin…

For sure, I completely understand the resistance a lot of people have to cryptocurrencies and blockchains, I imagine they can seem invasive or unnecessary to people who imagine the…

Just to expand on a few points: Transactions getting stuck because of gas prices spiking: This was one of the main drivers of the 1559 improvement proposal which was recently accep…

The monetary policy is becoming much clearer with proposals like EIP-1559 which has been approved for the summer upgrade. But beside that, I can buy things with it, and I regularly…