It just needs to be served over IPFS and you wouldn't need to run any kind of server at all :)
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
#32I'm on the Keybase team and as you can see we jumped to sponsor a small block. We participated in this for two reasons: (1) shazow (co-author) was also the author of the official Keybase Chrome and Firefox extensions, and he did an amazing job. We'd gamble on anything he does. The space we bought wasn't that expensive from a company perspective, and it was an educational experience. And maybe it will draw us attentio…
We'd gamble on anything he does. Well said, because the dynamic is the same. Throw money at the house and hope you win. The house does. This can't be duplicated (maybe every few years), it's a copy of a previous project, and it is literally a page of ads that won't be worth anything in a month or less. It only has value because of the attention people are giving it right now, so maybe reconsider the investment. Own a…
I think you're missing what is interesting about this, from a technical point of view.
This is neat, and novel:
> "Ads displayed above are loaded directly from the Ethereum Blockchain. This Decentralized Application (DApp) does not have a traditional backend. No MVC framework, no SQL database. It's just a JavaScript application served statically from Github which speaks to the Ethereum blockchain using Web3.js."
That they're profiting from it is just an amusing side effect, imo.
Re: Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage as an Ethereum Smart Contract and DApp
#33Can someone quickly explain how file storage / bandwidth off the blockchain works? Who pays the gas to deliver it to end users?
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#34Whoever bought the ad for syscoin.org didn't use an absolute URL and the link goes to https://thousandetherhomepage.com/syscoin.org.
Re: Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage as an Ethereum Smart Contract and DApp
#35I'm on the Keybase team and as you can see we jumped to sponsor a small block. We participated in this for two reasons: (1) shazow (co-author) was also the author of the official Keybase Chrome and Firefox extensions, and he did an amazing job. We'd gamble on anything he does. The space we bought wasn't that expensive from a company perspective, and it was an educational experience. And maybe it will draw us attentio…
We'd gamble on anything he does. Well said, because the dynamic is the same. Throw money at the house and hope you win. The house does. This can't be duplicated (maybe every few years), it's a copy of a previous project, and it is literally a page of ads that won't be worth anything in a month or less. It only has value because of the attention people are giving it right now, so maybe reconsider the investment. Own a…
The tagline is a reference to the original's "Own a piece of internet history!"
Re: Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage as an Ethereum Smart Contract and DApp
#36I'm on the Keybase team and as you can see we jumped to sponsor a small block. We participated in this for two reasons: (1) shazow (co-author) was also the author of the official Keybase Chrome and Firefox extensions, and he did an amazing job. We'd gamble on anything he does. The space we bought wasn't that expensive from a company perspective, and it was an educational experience. And maybe it will draw us attentio…
By the way, here's a GIF of what the buying process looks like: https://gfycat.com/BleakSimilarGermanspaniel This is the part that blows my mind, it feels like magic every time. (P.S. Thanks for your support, Chris!)
Payment as part of the protocol alone will make DAPPs a game changer.
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#37The idea of emergent PR via this sort of mechanism combined with a trustless and difficult-to-regulate infrastructure offers significant promise for breaking the glass ceiling that makes fame so difficult to achieve. Ever wonder why news personalities and many celebs are so seemingly mediocre? It's this glass ceiling. Platforms like Youtube solve part of the problem, but big fame takes big money, and so the funding m…
Have we not seen the effects of this already? YouTube, Kickstarter, Twitter have already made it possible for nobodies to became massively famous. Most of them are mediocre. It seems to me the surest way to guarantee mediocrity is to incentivise blatant money grabs. Here's a million a dollars for your billboard of ads? That's not going to build the future we are hoping for, it's gonna make someone else in 10 years ma…
>It seems to me the surest way to guarantee mediocrity is to incentivise blatant money grabs.
GP explicitly states that's the current state of affairs. That's the basis of his point, in fact.
Re: Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage as an Ethereum Smart Contract and DApp
#38I love this idea! I actually just finished creating a video course that teaches you how to build a similar thing: https://www.newline.co/courses/million-ether-homepage/ In our version you're able to bid for each pixel -- if the previous owner is outbid, the funds are returned. Sending funds in Solidity from a contract is really tricky to handle because there are so many ways it can go wrong. For example, when you sen…
Very cool, thanks for sharing! Another challenging dimension is to balance what the EVM is good for with the problem you're actually trying to solve. It's certainly interesting to work in an environment where inefficiency literally translates into money. Going for literally every pixel is too expensive, so we went for deci-pixels (10x10 pixel blocks). Incidentally, the original Million Dollar Homepage took the same a…
How expensive is the search for empty blocks going to be towards the end? Would it be possible to introduce a more efficient algorithm in the future, or would it invalidate past sales?
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#39Can someone quickly explain how file storage / bandwidth off the blockchain works? Who pays the gas to deliver it to end users?
At $25 dollars a transaction it's great business for the transaction companies like MtGox... before they went bust
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#40Holy macarena this entire bitcoin scam is getting ridiculous every minute
pass the popcorn!