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Introducing Token

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Re: Introducing Token

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Post by eeZah7Ux »

aaron-lebo wrote: post #29
zimzim wrote: post #24

living in Zimbabwe now, there a severe shortage of cash, Im hoping a project like this one will catch one day. good luck

Is Ether not in short supply around there? Serious question - is it easier or more likely to fix government issues which cause that lack of cash, or is it easier to fix those issues in order to get the technical infrastructure necessary to transplant technology not even widely used in the US? The notion that a poor villager would be reliant on the Ethereum network for anything is slightly terrifying. Where do they go…

Smartphone and cells are happening anyways given the huge demand.

Creating a stable and trustworthy government and a banking system is hugely difficult compared with developing any cryptocurrency.

Re: Introducing Token

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Post by xeromal »

paulddraper wrote: post #59
YPCrumble wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just clicked because I thought it was a cool new web browser. I don't care about Ethereum and it feels like clickbait to me.

The domain name is click bait?

I was deceived too. "Token App Browser" is more apt if that's what it actually can do.

Re: Introducing Token

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Post by dmix »

zimzim wrote: post #52
DennisP wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How common are smartphones in Zimbabwe?

they are common, people value communication. most of the phones are older models or very cheap Chinese brands.

Any idea about the version of Android they typically use?

Re: Introducing Token

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Post by AroundTheBlock_ »

wslh wrote: post #53
AroundTheBlock_ wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No true light client exists. SPV is different. See here a Core dev talking about it. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/53bfj6/will_there_... Even your own links says "A Bitcoin implementation that does not verify everything, but instead relies on either connecting to a trusted node"

It verifies enough information to be secure. It is obvious that at one point they need to connect to some node because this ia the way blockcgain works.

Ok sure, connect to another node. But a light client is its own node.

Re: Introducing Token

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Post by zeveb »

aaron-lebo wrote: post #29
zimzim wrote: post #24

living in Zimbabwe now, there a severe shortage of cash, Im hoping a project like this one will catch one day. good luck

Is Ether not in short supply around there? Serious question - is it easier or more likely to fix government issues which cause that lack of cash, or is it easier to fix those issues in order to get the technical infrastructure necessary to transplant technology not even widely used in the US? The notion that a poor villager would be reliant on the Ethereum network for anything is slightly terrifying. Where do they go…

It's probably more reliable than Robert Mugabe's government has been. A good, stable Western government might be preferable to Internet anarchy (although not always: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417155/wisonsins-shame...), but they don't have a good, stable Western government: they have a deeply corrupt, horrifically incompetent kleptocracy.

Re: Introducing Token

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Post by zeveb »

th0br0 wrote: post #45
valarauca1 wrote: post #43

Yo can I get a copy of the Apps source code? Open Whisper Systems source is GPLv3.

Searching for 'whisper' on the page lead me to https://github.com/tokenbrowser

Imagine, if Signal supported federation then Signal users could talk to Token users!

Re: Introducing Token

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Post by DennisP »

zimzim wrote: post #52
DennisP wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How common are smartphones in Zimbabwe?

they are common, people value communication. most of the phones are older models or very cheap Chinese brands.

Then I think Ethereum could help, down the road a bit. You don't even have to use ether, necessarily; a contract could implement a local time-based currency and do away with your money shortage entirely. Lending circles might help with short-term needs.

For now you'd need a little ether to pay transaction fees, which are getting more significant, and it might be hard to obtain. And scalability could be an issue. But all this stuff is getting addressed:

- With the Metropolis upgrade in a couple months, contracts will be able to hold their own ether and pay the transaction fees with that.

- With the Serenity upgrade in a year or so, transaction fees should lower significantly (for a complicated reason I can explain if anyone's interested). This upgrade will also increase scalability to about 100 tx/sec, and take block time to about 4 seconds.

- With the first sharding upgrade, scalability should get to around 1000 to 10,000 tx/sec, and fees should be even cheaper.

Security of old android phones might be a problem.

Re: Introducing Token

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Post by devmunchies »

paulddraper wrote: post #59
YPCrumble wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just clicked because I thought it was a cool new web browser. I don't care about Ethereum and it feels like clickbait to me.

The domain name is click bait?

People create language, language doesn't create people. Meaning, words mean what the majority of people think they mean.
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