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What do you think happened in El Salvador, Chile, Argentina, Iran, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Honduras, etc

Didn’t read the entire post but I think the characterization of PCP’s is a bit off - some SNARK constructions and STARKs both use PCP’s - using a linear PCP vs a PCP doesn’t impact…

It seems like a VRF might be a more natural choice than a commitment scheme for verifiable randomness, since it doesn't require any honesty assumption for participants, and Keybase…

I thought that the post was fairly unclear, but for me, it seems like the main argument against 538 is that it makes unfalsifiable claims about the probability of individual electi…

Not a pilot, and not trying to be an armchair pilot, but why would he have ascended all the way to 36000 feet? Isn't there a real risk of depressurization with hull damage?

You misread my comment - I'm saying that the argument is not that the fact that this other measure of unemployment is much higher than the standard measure shows that the economy i…

I don't agree that using the OECD employment rate is bullshit. The argument is not that at a single point, the fact that this other measure of unemployment is much higher than the …

Why not? Determining how we measure the health of our economy, and implicitly, what we want to optimize for, is a political process, not simply an objective, scientific one.

The point that he's making is not that individual observation should trump objective measures, but the epistemic claim that if what we perceive contradicts those measures, it's wor…

The emphasis on humor in Mozart and Beethoven is interesting, particularly since it seems almost absent in the later Sonatas. I remember hearing Martha Argerich note that it's pres…

Verifiable computation is an active and developed area of research in cryptography, and the validation method of having every node run every step of every computation is the most n…

Sure, I'm assuming that most of the transactions are trading/speculation, given that 60% of ETH is held on exchanges, and if the question is how we should value ETH, a measure that…

That position isn't supported by volatile transaction fee data - excepting spikes for spam or high traffic, the transaction fee denominated in dollars generally tracks the price of…

Forks aren't as simple as you might think - who gets to determine what the "original chain" is in the event of a fork? Suppose that ETH forked and one version changed some consensu…

For example, if the market cap were 1/100 of its current value, then the transaction fees per year, denominated in dollars, would be $1800000, yielding the same "P/E" multiple, and…

When discussing how crypto-assets should be valued: > In that case, you can take the simple model and say a cryptocurrency’s valuation is the net present value of the transaction f…

Maybe I'm just being cynical (or jealous!), but when I read "Vitalik Buterin, who has managed to synthesize insights across those fields into successful, real-world applications li…

The security proof for SNARKs requires constant-depth compliance predicates, otherwise the proof doesn’t follow because the extractor size could blow up. I would have to read the c…

I’m not sure why there is a misunderstanding here, especially given that you work for a wallet provider. The attack is as described: an attacker forks, mines invalid blocks, which …

Yes, I agree that the top-level SNARK will obviously have a high level of security wrt soundness, but suppose that I have a SNARK recursively computing 2^128 SNARKs, you’re claimin…

No, my point is that light wallets don’t validate the content of blocks...so an attacker could create a long chain of invalid blocks and fool light clients. That’s a significant is…

Ordinarily, light wallets compromise on validating blocks, so that’s one benefit.

Coda seems interesting, but I don’t understand how a single feature (fast light client syncing) can be enough of an advantage to launch a new chain - what prevents a new chain from…