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Show HN: Decentralized application starter with Vue, Ethereum and IPFS

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Re: Show HN: Decentralized application starter with Vue, Ethereum and IPFS

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Post by marknadal »

This is a nice bundle of things to install, however what is the end result here?

It seems to be an app that initializes web3 and saves a contract... a contract to do what?

We also have a decentralized tool, and people are building stuff like:

- Testing character-by-character realtime updates on a social networking dApp in a P2P mesh-network of devices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3akdQJs55E

- A 3D multiplayer VR game in the browser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_m16-w6bBI

And more! Note, this is not using Ethereum, but our decentralized tool: https://github.com/amark/gun , and here is a 4 minute and 40 LOC interactive coding tutorial that shows you how to get started: https://scrimba.com/c/c2gBgt4

So far CryptoKitties is the most interesting actual dApp I've seen with Ethereum. Does the op/parent github repo help enable building real dApps like above? I hope so.

Re: Show HN: Decentralized application starter with Vue, Ethereum and IPFS

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Post by patrickbolle »

decorator wrote: post #9

If it's on Ethereum, it's not decentralised. Their state is mutable -- as per the DAO.

I understand this, but good lord people need to stop bringing this up in every damn thread that mentions Ethereum. We all know about the DAO and what happened afterwards.

Re: Show HN: Decentralized application starter with Vue, Ethereum and IPFS

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Post by decorator »

patrickbolle wrote: post #12
decorator wrote: post #9

If it's on Ethereum, it's not decentralised. Their state is mutable -- as per the DAO.

I understand this, but good lord people need to stop bringing this up in every damn thread that mentions Ethereum. We all know about the DAO and what happened afterwards.

That's probably because people think decentralised apps should be decentralised.

Re: Show HN: Decentralized application starter with Vue, Ethereum and IPFS

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Post by drdeca »

decorator wrote: post #9

If it's on Ethereum, it's not decentralised. Their state is mutable -- as per the DAO.

I think if you have a node running locally, metamask will work with ETC as well, so you could probably use this setup with Ethereum Classic if you wish.

Re: Show HN: Decentralized application starter with Vue, Ethereum and IPFS

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Post by qwerty456127 »

What exactly does it do? Although it is such a buzzword nowadays I still have absolute zero idea about how are these "smart contract" things used and what Ethereum is if not "a better BitCoin" (and if it is - what kind of applications can you build with it? money exchange/ecommerce/gambling?).
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