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Original Hackernews article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17090733

If properly designed, the main net should really just be the test net. Any small issues should have been ratified on the test, and the chain should move to production without any i…

Worth pointing out: these guys worked for a long time off a very large capital-raise round to implement and run a test net, only to just replace it at the very last moment with a c…

The way they self amend is that they literally will just vote to replace a particular file in their implementation with a new one.

This is awesome. How can we access the code to play around with?

Cursory reading, they do seem to discuss limitations. They say that the system is not guaranteed to provide liveness for double-spends.

Seems like ambiguous wording on that part. However, they do not seem to require single-UTXO-inputs, but can consume multiple.

This seems closely related to the work on proving the Riemann hypothesis, where there has been work on attempting to show some quasi-crystalline structure of the zeta function zero…

Very cool. Could standard Latex mathmode be used here?

Looks like the logo for a stop-n-shop-style grocery store.

There's a bunch of attack vectors, but most fall on the trusted publisher and client itself. IPFS and Ethereum are, by assumption (difficulty wise), ``secure''. Assuming both clien…

Quick browse seems to be like so: 1. Client generates necessary files (including keys and payloads). 2. Encrypted payload is placed on IPFS. 3. Keys are placed on a trusted publish…

Preston has some beliefs that don't make a lot of sense, I agree. But his ability to reason about technical facts is not impeded. There is no fundamental argument he makes that can…

Attacks on the author aren't the best thing in general ( https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Graham%2... )

Stablecoins are fundamentally broken and unsound. Ignoring the tech-stack that achieves price stability, and looking at them purely economically, the math simply breaks down. This …