Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good point, I added a check specifically for this.
Also, what if somebody links to an enormous, hundred-megabyte sized image?
Great question, I too would like to know this
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#92What is your strategy? Today is not -12 years. 16 MB memory and B/W monitors is not actual now, for example.
You must update your Solidity for more actual cases at 2017. Kickstarts support and early stage of Startups, etc. What be actual at 2017.
Thanks.
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#93Smacking my forehead right now, wishing I had thought of this first. This is practically guaranteed to raise $300k and it's actually legal and ethical, unlike most of the cryptocurrency schemes these days. Great job, you'll soon be regretting not making it the 10,000 ether homepage I think...
Re: Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage as an Ethereum Smart Contract and DApp
#94Smacking my forehead right now, wishing I had thought of this first. This is practically guaranteed to raise $300k and it's actually legal and ethical, unlike most of the cryptocurrency schemes these days. Great job, you'll soon be regretting not making it the 10,000 ether homepage I think...
I did think of it and didn't follow through.............
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#95Needs more ICO.
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#96Author 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…
> No need to rely on us to run the service indefinitely.
Elsewhere in the thread you've said that you control the domain and the presentation... so you can either get rid of or replace the page at any time or even just forget to renew the domain and someone else could take it over.
So anyone who purchases an ad is dependent on you to run the service indefinitely, right?
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#97This 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.
Re: Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage as an Ethereum Smart Contract and DApp
#98Author 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…
> No need to rely on us to run the service indefinitely. Elsewhere in the thread you've said that you control the domain and the presentation... so you can either get rid of or replace the page at any time or even just forget to renew the domain and someone else could take it over. So anyone who purchases an ad is dependent on you to run the service indefinitely, right?
No. Anyone can run the same page on a different domain. The only case in which you aren't satisfied with this possibility is the one in which you truly want to place an add on the page.
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#99Heya, 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…
"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 wallet or a gateway."
Not stating this to be obnoxious, but to be clear - there is a back end for the web page that calls the data from the blockchain ... if (whoever) stops hosting that site or DNS is halted or the domain expires ...