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> Ethereum was created because it isn't possible to do Ethereum with BTC. I don't think that is true. You can absolutely reuse BTC for your so called "smart contracts".

Sorry for a stupid question but I have to ask. Why everyone is so desperate to start a company and locate it physically in the US? Is it just because of VC money? Wouldn't any safe…

Yeah, just $30 million for development plus 12 million of ETH which is in current price like what $4.5 billion? I'm against of this kind of taxes. But if this is the way it works i…

>> write your own separate distributed cryptocurrency system You don't need "cryptocurrency system" for most of the cases, do you? E.g. you don't need to solve double spending prob…

>> There already exists a common currency through which we can trade. It's called ether > Exactly. For every ICO that pops up, ask does this use case require a special token? Well,…

I agree. No offence but this is an /r/ethereum quality content.

What will the tokens represent? Will it be an equivalent of company shares or something else?

>> an "ICO production" company to create the coins and infrastructure for them to do their own ICOs? Isn't that what Ethereum is for?

The part about the private messages and huge media files is not clear. If I want to share some message with my friends only should I encrypt the message using their public keys and…

Do we have a week of cryptocurrencies on HN?

But considering the fact that the computations are useless, the energy is still wasted.

Do you think they had non-speculative use cases in mind when creating Ethereum? I don't think so. There are way better ways to create decentralized applications. Without the coins …

Overall I like it but the short centered URL bar, unused space around it, and trimmed URL are terrible.

E.g. everyone is reinventing domain names. Namecoin has .bit, Ethereum has .eth. Both require installation of a special software on the client computer (or in case of Namecoin that…

If you can't fight it, join it. Then lead it.

>> marketing speech >> FOSS developers I don't think it has something to do with FOSS but rather with blockchain developers. Most projects have nice landing pages but very vague me…

There are some hipster web-sites built by amateurish developers who manage somehow to make them work correctly in Chrome only. I've faced those too and after reporting the bugs (li…

>> No, that's impossible. Sorry, but that's complete BS.

There are a lot of efforts to "re-decentralize the web" and none of them seem successful. In my opinion, that's because their authors are trying to implement some elves fantasies. …

Why is this downvoted? It's true, isn't it? And as far as I know they had plans to make English the 3rd official language (along with Kazakh and Russian).

The thing is they have already had people been sent to prison for a single "like" in social networks or for expression of dislike in comments section. It didn't look like somebody …

Is there a Servo + WASM based alternative to Electron yet? Would it be more effective?

It did, twice actually. 2 applications, a few interviews for every of them. Then for two years there had been a dozen of applications with no answers. And I'm thinking now whether …

I'm not a user of any Google products (at least not of the ones that require Google account). But I applied a few times to different positions through their careers site: created a…

I had the same issue, solved it by finding a job. Repeated it twice. Every time I'm not busy with my projects or work for too long, I start doubting.