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Can I ask what is your browser and its version?
The latest firefox on Windows 10 LTSC
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Silicon Valley is one of the major hubs of blockchain development. And not everyone on HN is from SV.
No, its really not compared to other places. What projects are you thinking of? There aren't as many SV people here as there used to be, but the community is still skewed that way.
Yes, it really is compared to other places. I don't have the time or energy to dig up a comprehensive list, but the tip of iceberg would be Berkeley & Stanford blockchain research groups, Blockstream (HQ in BA), Cosmos (engineering lead in SV), Dfinity (Palo Alto, SanFran, Zurich), Protocol Labs (IPFS, Filecoin, HQ in SV), O(1) Labs (HQ in SV). Just a small sample of some of the highest quality technical projects in the industry. And several of the largest cryptocurrency VC funds are based there - A16Z Crypto, Paradigm, Polychain, Metastable Capital, and a bunch of others.
SV's tech industry is far from dominated by blockchain as it may be in other places, which may make blockchain seem relatively small there. But it's a bigger and more robust scene than most other places.
https://simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/proofs2019-boot-camp (berkeley has several sites, not sure which best to link, but their speciality is in Zero Knowledge crypto applied to blockchain)
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#63"Sign in with Blockstack" - never heard of that, so won't be signing up. No way to provide sign-in with e-mail & pw? :(
It is free and will not take almost no special info, give it a try ;) The Blockstack auth with assure that your data is secure and encrypted
Many things are free to sign up for. Heck, I regularly sign up/join any Show HN-featured site.
But there's zero reason for any site not to offer the tried-and-trusted email and password, even just as as a fallback option, especially these days where trust in online stuff is seemingly at an all-time low.
Google, Facebook, et al., companies with massively larger, dedicated security departments swore up, down, and sideways that "everyone's data" is "secure" and "encrypted" ";)"
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No, its really not compared to other places. What projects are you thinking of? There aren't as many SV people here as there used to be, but the community is still skewed that way.
Yes, it really is compared to other places. I don't have the time or energy to dig up a comprehensive list, but the tip of iceberg would be Berkeley & Stanford blockchain research groups, Blockstream (HQ in BA), Cosmos (engineering lead in SV), Dfinity (Palo Alto, SanFran, Zurich), Protocol Labs (IPFS, Filecoin, HQ in SV), O(1) Labs (HQ in SV). Just a small sample of some of the highest quality technical projects in…
Huh, you make some really great points. I didn't realize some of those products were based out of there.
> SV's tech industry is far from dominated by blockchain as it may be in other places, which may make blockchain seem relatively small there.
That is also a great point! I didn't even think about that, thanks for the eye opener.
With that said, it does seem like this place is extremely skeptical of blockchain. I figure its the SV legacy types that probably lurk around here still.
I actually did a blockchain at Berkeley online class. It was great, I think it was through Coursera iirc.
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Yes, it really is compared to other places. I don't have the time or energy to dig up a comprehensive list, but the tip of iceberg would be Berkeley & Stanford blockchain research groups, Blockstream (HQ in BA), Cosmos (engineering lead in SV), Dfinity (Palo Alto, SanFran, Zurich), Protocol Labs (IPFS, Filecoin, HQ in SV), O(1) Labs (HQ in SV). Just a small sample of some of the highest quality technical projects in…
Huh, you make some really great points. I didn't realize some of those products were based out of there. > SV's tech industry is far from dominated by blockchain as it may be in other places, which may make blockchain seem relatively small there. That is also a great point! I didn't even think about that, thanks for the eye opener. With that said, it does seem like this place is extremely skeptical of blockchain. I f…
Yeah there are a lot of skeptics here too, and rightfully so imho. Scams abound.