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Re: Fog.sh – decentralized content publishing on the IOTA ledger

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Post by crankylinuxuser »

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #25
RoqueNE wrote: post #8

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Wonder why you only post the old negative articles. There are maybe 5 articles that claim they found something negative, but 20 that are positive or directly debunking the negative articles using credible professional sources. The nonsense about the 'vulnerability' neha found got destroyed in multiple answers. either directly from the devs or from independent sources. Just yesterday one of the core devs answered (aga…

did you literally just sign up for a comment on this post? bad idea to come in here guns blazing ... what usually works very well on the Internet as a newcomer to any site is to lurk a little. get a feel for the vibe and the people, then decide if you fit-in and comment.

Everybody signs up at one time or another. Highlighting the fact someone's passionate enough to discuss a topic is not indicative of ill-doing. Just means they're new. So were you at one time.

As for the technical meaning of IOTA.. Well, it seems interesting. IIRC, they're doing some sort of DAG so blockchain based slowdowns don't occur. But they're doing really funny stuff with trinary math and rolling their own crypto. Usually not a good sign in the least. Makes me hesitant in trusting anything about this, at least until people smarter than I confirm they did mathematically correct operations. Still, using trinary makes most algorithmic tools just not work...

Re: Fog.sh – decentralized content publishing on the IOTA ledger

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Post by vageli »

nikuda wrote: post #27
xwvvvvwx wrote: post #23

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Ternary logic is a pretty niche thing. As I understand it the claimed benefit is improved efficiency / elegance for some mathematical operations when run on a ternary computer. However since all modern hardware is binary, the use of ternary logic only serves to introduce an unnecessary software based translation layer, simultaneously increasing complexity and reducing performance. I would consider this to be an examp…

However since all modern hardware is binary They're actually working on trinary hardware with the closely related JINN project. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1273040.msg13159701#...

How come the links to jinn repos don't work? https://github.com/JinnLabs/

Re: Fog.sh – decentralized content publishing on the IOTA ledger

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Post by DiThi »

fijter wrote: post #45
DiThi wrote: post #32

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> 1: By using a ternary number system, the amount of devices and cycles can be reduced significantly. How does that work? Trying to find information, it looks like it's designed for devices of the future that don't exist; so it's built on assumptions that may be plain wrong.

It would be ideal on trinary hardware, but it can work with a trinary emulator for now. I expect to see a Trinary chip very soon. CfB, one of the core devs of IOTA, founder of NXT and inventor of PoS has a team that has been working on Jinn (trinary cpu's) for the last 6 years.

So they're betting that it's the hardware of the future. And not something like the Mill CPU, which has been in development for much longer and it seems it will be able to execute all the millions pieces of existing software, faster and with less energy.

Re: Fog.sh – decentralized content publishing on the IOTA ledger

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Post by caruana »

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #48
caruana wrote: post #43

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I know this will get down votes (but I'm generally a sarcastic guy so please take this in that spirit): if half are biased and half are morons what camp do you fall in? :)

You don't have to be part of the crypto-zoo. You can just stand on the side observing and shaking your head. Disclaimer: I personally don't gamble/speculate and therefore don't have any crypto currencies in my possession. (this argument is usually used by IOTA fanboys to discredit critics of their currency/ICO)

Standing on the side lines, indirectly referring to participants as animals (crypto-zoo), shaking your head from your percieved superior position, generalizing participation as gambling / speculating demonstrates you are squarely in the biased 50% camp.

My Disclaimer: I have positions in several crypto projects (not IOTA specifically b/c I don't like some of the decisions they've made). I make no predictions as to which (if any) cryto projects will succeed but ultimately I think that the long term outlook is positive for a few.

edit - typo

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