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Keybase is now supported by the Stellar Development Foundation

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Re: Keybase is now supported by the Stellar Development Foundation

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Post by donttrack »

eropple wrote: post #8

Last time Keybase came up I made sure to post about how great using it is and that I am super-duper enthused about Keybase. I entreated 'malgorithms to let me give him money for Keybase. And I have recommended Keybase to a ton of people and a bunch of my clients, using it in a bunch of workflows. Now those people and those clients are going to have cryptocoin bullshit stuffed into a work tool? Thanks, Chris. You're d…

Yeah, I am not going to use any product associated with anything cryptocurrency. Just smells bad.

Re: Keybase is now supported by the Stellar Development Foundation

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Post by xfer »

eropple wrote: post #8

Last time Keybase came up I made sure to post about how great using it is and that I am super-duper enthused about Keybase. I entreated 'malgorithms to let me give him money for Keybase. And I have recommended Keybase to a ton of people and a bunch of my clients, using it in a bunch of workflows. Now those people and those clients are going to have cryptocoin bullshit stuffed into a work tool? Thanks, Chris. You're d…

Keybase protocol is public. Write your own client(or you know fork the public codebase), if you don't want to get jammed by "crypto junk".

Re: Keybase is now supported by the Stellar Development Foundation

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Post by wmf »

curo wrote: post #90

In response to the environmental backlash argument, isn't the lightning network supposed to substantially mitigate those concerns?

Lightning doesn't reduce mining in any way. Note that energy consumption of mining is not related to transaction throughput.

Re: Keybase is now supported by the Stellar Development Foundation

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Post by bpicolo »

diakritikal wrote: post #46

Given that stellar/lumen is a fork of ripple/xrp, and ripple/xrp seem to have a massive head start with what 100+? bank and payment providers already on board - are stellar/lumen not just competing head to head with Ripple with essentially the same technology but with a handicap of being behind in terms of development and not having an in-use production network and settlement solution?

My understanding is that no banks are on board for the XRP bit of Ripple yet, but instead Ripple's non-xrp tech https://ripple.com/solutions/process-payments/

Re: Keybase is now supported by the Stellar Development Foundation

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Post by derefr »

malgorithms wrote: post #2

Blog author from Keybase here. Always game for a Hacker News discussion! There's a subtle point I cut from my post for simplicity reasons, but which feels perfect for HN. I've been convinced by Mazières and the Stellar team that the classic "blockchain" works great for native tokens but is extremely dangerous for anything with counterparty redemption. For example, imagine the shitshow after a truly contentious fork,…

This doesn't exist right now, but theoretically a network like Ethereum whose tokens exist as state within Turing-complete contracts, could solve "counterparty redemption across forks" by simply allowing each contract to react to the fork "event" independently on each resultant forked chain. It'd be a lot like how the actual POSIX fork(3) call works!

Presumably, the default implementation of such a fork-event handler would have all but one of the contracts destroy themselves (and not in the common Ethereum sense of a contract "suicide", with the owner getting returned any held value; but instead with the contract simply blackholing all its value and state.)

Re: Keybase is now supported by the Stellar Development Foundation

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Post by oh_sigh »

blocked_again wrote: post #54

You get a sense of positivity by just going through the stellar website and documentation (eerily similar to Stripe). It is beautifully designed and easy to understand. Kind of gives the feeling that they are in it for the long run unlike many other get rich quick Ponzi cryptocurrencies out there.

I recently had extensive contact with someone on their support staff(Robert) regarding issues with my stellar coins(issued back in 2014 which I had completely forgotten about until a month ago). We exchanged probably 10-20 emails trying to resolve my issue, which was eventually satisfiable resolved. I came away with a very positive opinion about the seriousness of the team.

Re: Keybase is now supported by the Stellar Development Foundation

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Post by Jedd »

bllguo wrote: post #84
bastawhiz wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It's like being given a free piece of asbestos with your sandwich. It seems less like you're being given a free piece of asbestos and more like you're being given tongs for holding some asbestos if you choose. Allowing one technology to work with another is different than marrying two technologies in an inseparable way.

you're implying that your revised analogy is better? If I order a sandwich I don't expect or want any tongs. To get them is suspicious.

You didn't order the sandwich.

Someone made the sandwich and let you use it, being clear along the way optional toppings may be added later.

Re: Keybase is now supported by the Stellar Development Foundation

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Post by proofofmoon »

bkolobara wrote: post #9

I first heard about Stellar from Patrick's (patio11) Harry Potter post around 3 years ago: Harry Potter And The Cryptocurrency of Stars[1]. I have been following Stellar closely since then and am also running one of the biggest Stellar communities. It's one of the rear cryptocurrency and "blockchain" technologies that actually make sense to me. They have a simple structure: you are able to issue assets/tokens on the…

Stellar will have "complicated token locking" (Lightning Network). From the post:

> And Stellar's lightning network will launch this year.

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