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Re: Staking Claims with Scheduled Tweets

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Post by ForHackernews »

Why would you use twitter for something like this when you could simply create a blockchain DAPP that runs on Ethereum? All you'd need to do is learn the Solidity language, compile it with Mist and purchase some initial startup gas to pay for the executions. Then, the integrity of your predictions would be guaranteed by a globally distributed network of several mining organizations, rather than dependent on one politically-suspect US tech company.

This seems like an ideal use-case for verifiable blockchain-backed applications.

Re: Staking Claims with Scheduled Tweets

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Post by tony101 »

lopmotr wrote: post #9
bluesign wrote: post #6

Yeah the key point is: ‘ And, of course, a person can post two hashes – for contradictory messages – and only publish replies one of them. ‘

Perhaps also state when the reply is coming in the initial tweet so if you don't meet your deadline, people can assume you decided to hide it.

Someone can also decide to simply delete their tweet. Unless you were closely monitoring the account, you wouldn't know.

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Post by ShuckSchu »

ForHackernews wrote: post #11

Why would you use twitter for something like this when you could simply create a blockchain DAPP that runs on Ethereum? All you'd need to do is learn the Solidity language, compile it with Mist and purchase some initial startup gas to pay for the executions. Then, the integrity of your predictions would be guaranteed by a globally distributed network of several mining organizations, rather than dependent on one polit…

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Re: Staking Claims with Scheduled Tweets

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Post by reckter »

Niantic (The Company behind Pokemon Go and Ingress) would do something similar for events in Ingress: They had a "measurement window", in which they would look at the state of the gameboard in a certain city and count stats (details irrelevant for the story here). The measurement window was 10 minutes long, but they would look randomly at one specific second and count the state at that second. Before each measurement window they would post a SHA hash on their twitter account, and release the string that lead to it afterwards (which was a bunch of garbage and a time like this: "52o5dfeis(})5eidfjsdkdbn 10:03:20 huner54652&e") Worked great for that proof :)

Re: Staking Claims with Scheduled Tweets

#16

Post by vosper »

ForHackernews wrote: post #11

Why would you use twitter for something like this when you could simply create a blockchain DAPP that runs on Ethereum? All you'd need to do is learn the Solidity language, compile it with Mist and purchase some initial startup gas to pay for the executions. Then, the integrity of your predictions would be guaranteed by a globally distributed network of several mining organizations, rather than dependent on one polit…

> Why would you use twitter for something like this when you could simply

Ok, go on

> create a blockchain DAPP that runs on Ethereum? All you'd need to do is learn the Solidity language, compile it with Mist and purchase some initial startup gas to pay for the executions.

So much simpler than tweeting!

> globally distributed network of several mining organizations, rather than dependent on one politically-suspect US tech company.

Yup, those reliable and impartial miners that noone really knows who they are, but we’re 200% sure they’re not mostly in China and could absolutely never be influenced by Chinese authorities?

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

ForHackernews wrote: post #11

Why would you use twitter for something like this when you could simply create a blockchain DAPP that runs on Ethereum? All you'd need to do is learn the Solidity language, compile it with Mist and purchase some initial startup gas to pay for the executions. Then, the integrity of your predictions would be guaranteed by a globally distributed network of several mining organizations, rather than dependent on one polit…

you laugh but I have periodically thought about making a prediction service and considered that blockchain of course would be a good verification - however after playing with it in my head I can never figure out a way to monetize it adequately to pay back the effort required, as the only people I can think would actually want to use the service are paranoid know-it-all jerks like me who want to show everyone how right they are - and I know for a fact I'm too cheap to pay for that service.

Re: Staking Claims with Scheduled Tweets

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

vosper wrote: post #16
ForHackernews wrote: post #11

Why would you use twitter for something like this when you could simply create a blockchain DAPP that runs on Ethereum? All you'd need to do is learn the Solidity language, compile it with Mist and purchase some initial startup gas to pay for the executions. Then, the integrity of your predictions would be guaranteed by a globally distributed network of several mining organizations, rather than dependent on one polit…

> Why would you use twitter for something like this when you could simply Ok, go on > create a blockchain DAPP that runs on Ethereum? All you'd need to do is learn the Solidity language, compile it with Mist and purchase some initial startup gas to pay for the executions. So much simpler than tweeting! > globally distributed network of several mining organizations, rather than dependent on one politically-suspect US…

I'm pretty sure the parent poster's tongue was cutting a hole through their cheek when writing the post.

Re: Staking Claims with Scheduled Tweets

#19

Post by appleflaxen »

renewiltord wrote: post #10
edent wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure of any hashing algorithms which use words as their output. Or have I misunderstood your comment?

It's just a byte string converted to a hex string commonly. Chunk it into quads of hex and you can index into a 65k dictionary (the OED has more than twice that).

even better than a dictionary: use dicewords, which have already mapped numbers to a canonical list of words.
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