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Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage as an Ethereum Smart Contract and DApp

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Re: Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage as an Ethereum Smart Contract and DApp

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Just an FYI this has a pretty bad security issue (XSS) which you might wanna fix ASAP (else people's Ether might get stolen :/): https://twitter.com/IAmMandatory/status/915439417665261568

Thanks for also submitting a ticket https://github.com/thousandetherhomepage/ketherhomepage/issu... !

We've added a blacklist of url schemes and CSP. I'd like to have a whitelist if I can find one with all known-good schemes we'd like to be able to support. Know of one?

Re: Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage as an Ethereum Smart Contract and DApp

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Heya, I'm other said friend. We also put together some anticipated FAQs: https://thousandetherhomepage.com/faq Some random fun facts: - The frontend "DApp" piece is done with VueJS which has been very fun to work with. It's hosted as a Github Page. - The backend is done with... there's no backend! The data is directly on The Blockchain, fetched from the browser through a standard-ish API (Web3) provided by your walle…

Awesome project (hi Andrey!). Question: Why is a browser plugin required to access DApps like this? I don't immediately see a clear discussion of this on the web.

Could also be a manual copy/paste of the contract address, ether and gas amount to your native wallet app, or a QR code to take a picture of with a mobile wallet.

Metamask (the browser plugin) is one - albeit a bit clunky in terms of UX - way of reducing the friction of doing web based ethereum payments, separated from your main wallet

Re: Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage as an Ethereum Smart Contract and DApp

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Author here. My friend and I have been doing some smart contract audits, and we wanted to build a fun contract ourselves. We remembered the Million Dollar Homepage from 12 years ago, and decided to reimagine what it would look like today _on the blockchain_. Not an ICO, more of an experiment / art project. We present, the Thousand Ether Homepage: https://thousandetherhomepage.com/ The smart contract itself: https://e…

I find your work very impressive.

Especially the UI flow: The user doesn't need anything, no email, no login, no payment credentials. Just Metamask and that's it.

So this could be the reference design for the next generation on-boarding.

Would you guys mind to write a blog post about how you created this project + some words about the on-boarding and if other projects have a similar seamless experience (would also give the project visibility again). Thanks!

PS: Just wondering again, is the core of the great UI rather Metamask or your work?

Re: Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage as an Ethereum Smart Contract and DApp

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Author here. My friend and I have been doing some smart contract audits, and we wanted to build a fun contract ourselves. We remembered the Million Dollar Homepage from 12 years ago, and decided to reimagine what it would look like today _on the blockchain_. Not an ICO, more of an experiment / art project. We present, the Thousand Ether Homepage: https://thousandetherhomepage.com/ The smart contract itself: https://e…

I find your work very impressive. Especially the UI flow: The user doesn't need anything, no email, no login, no payment credentials. Just Metamask and that's it. So this could be the reference design for the next generation on-boarding. Would you guys mind to write a blog post about how you created this project + some words about the on-boarding and if other projects have a similar seamless experience (would also gi…

Metamask is just the bit that pops up to confirm your purchase. The UI is a JavaScript app done in VueJS.

Blog posts definitely coming up!

Re: Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage as an Ethereum Smart Contract and DApp

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This is a great idea. Mostly for the marketing angle, but it also will start to show people what is possible. It's like a taste of a entirely new network, which will have capabilities that we can't even imagine right now. The blockchain space is really hot for a reason, lots of hype, but also lots of promise because it offers a glimpse of systems that will disrupt many entrenched companies.

Buttershakes, have your thoughts about the bitcoin November HF changed at all since your comments before the Bitcoin Cash fork went down? Would love to hear them. Have read that thread several times. So much drama, but I can't see a way where the majority fork won't just simply obliterate the minority fork.

Re: Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage as an Ethereum Smart Contract and DApp

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This is a great idea. Mostly for the marketing angle, but it also will start to show people what is possible. It's like a taste of a entirely new network, which will have capabilities that we can't even imagine right now. The blockchain space is really hot for a reason, lots of hype, but also lots of promise because it offers a glimpse of systems that will disrupt many entrenched companies.

Buttershakes, have your thoughts about the bitcoin November HF changed at all since your comments before the Bitcoin Cash fork went down? Would love to hear them. Have read that thread several times. So much drama, but I can't see a way where the majority fork won't just simply obliterate the minority fork.

Yeah I've given it more thought. It really all comes down to mining power. Right now a lot of miners are signalling for segwit2X. If they end up committing their resources to it and the companies in the ecosystem do also, then the minority fork will be Bitcoin core. At least until such time as they merge back in. There is way too much drama around this entire thing, but that is what happens when you have billions of dollars on the line and a huge ideological and corporate divide.

Bitcoin is about the proof-of-work, everything else is really secondary in the structure. It's too easy to spawn nodes for them to have much economic power in the system. If the companies and wallets support 2X then we will see it rapidly become the dominant chain. It ain't over till it's over and nobody is going down without a fight, I expect in the extreme case Bitcoin core will switch proof-of-work and claim to be the "real" Bitcoin if the miners abandon them.

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