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Re: MetaMask now has over 8M users

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Post by keymone »

omarfarooq wrote: post #28
keymone wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not a full node, a fast-sync trusting third party node. I doubt anyone is able to sync a full node from genesis block anymore.

> I doubt anyone is able to sync a full node from genesis block anymore. Because 1 terabyte of storage space is so out of reach, today? [1] Ethereum Chain Full Sync Data Size: 954.28 GB as of 09/06/2021 [2] [1] https://www.amazon.com/Blue-NAND-1TB-SSD-WDS100T2B0A/dp/B073... [2] https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethereum_chain_full_sync_data...

sha256 is only 256 bits, so it's obviously easy to solve right?

i suppose life is more satisfying on the surface, when you only need to argue against straw-men, but surely that's a ticking time bomb?

Re: MetaMask now has over 8M users

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Post by spaceman_2020 »

arcticbull wrote: post #2

I guess a lot of people want to spend $200 in gas fees to buy a URL to a JPEG that comes with no rights whatsoever to the image itself. What a time to be alive. Maybe I was wrong, maybe the Fed's loose monetary policy has gone too far after all haha.

It disappoints me that comments on crypto threads on HN have the same tone as NYTimes crypto articles.

I would have expected this place to be more curious and less dismissive

Re: MetaMask now has over 8M users

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Post by puranjay »

dheera wrote: post #31
arcticbull wrote: post #2

I guess a lot of people want to spend $200 in gas fees to buy a URL to a JPEG that comes with no rights whatsoever to the image itself. What a time to be alive. Maybe I was wrong, maybe the Fed's loose monetary policy has gone too far after all haha.

I tried to sell some AI-generated cat pictures and it didn't work. Nobody wanted to pay for it. I think some element of it is a famous person doing it, so the spending is associated with the person, not the URL to the art. Which basically means, if you're famous, you can get some free money from idiots.

This is true for all art markets - nothing surprising. Outside of a few masters, you can’t expect immediate liquidity from your art.

Re: MetaMask now has over 8M users

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Post by puranjay »

ramijames wrote: post #39
arcticbull wrote: post #2

I guess a lot of people want to spend $200 in gas fees to buy a URL to a JPEG that comes with no rights whatsoever to the image itself. What a time to be alive. Maybe I was wrong, maybe the Fed's loose monetary policy has gone too far after all haha.

You are entirely misunderstanding the purpose of NFTs. As a first-hand buyer, you are paying to act as a patron for artists/projects that you believe in. You enable those people to spend time producing more art that you like. This is a very interesting and valuable use-case in and of itself. I have recently started putting up my digital work and it is the first time in my life (41) that I can create unique works and…

My wife had a conference yesterday that was initially going to be held in Berlin but because of the pandemic, happened entirely online. The conference organizers set up a virtual environment in Gather.town where your avatar could walk around a game-like virtual room and initiate conversations with people (over Zoom) by walking up to them. There were different rooms where you could attend different sessions.

For my wife and most of the academics present, it was their first virtual/gaming experience, and they all loved it.

People don’t realize it but the metaverse is here already. In the metaverse, your avatar is your digital identity. How much would people be willing to pay for a more desirable digital identity (avatar)? What if that digital identity also got you exclusive access to select clubs?

None of this is new - people pay tons of money for more desirable real world identities (clothes, makeup, accessories).

If we spend half our lives online, is it really surprising that people will eventually want a more desirable online identity too?

Re: MetaMask now has over 8M users

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Post by puranjay »

TicklishTiger wrote: post #10

Is any one of these 8 million here? I would love to hear what people do with it.

I, for one, am able to access sites without disclosing my identity at all.

I paid for a membership to icy.tools the other day entirely with my metamask account and without using any email/phone number at all

I’d be very, very happy if every site in the world had a “connect with metamask” button where I could log in completely anonymously

Re: MetaMask now has over 8M users

#47

Post by omarfarooq »

keymone wrote: post #41
omarfarooq wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I doubt anyone is able to sync a full node from genesis block anymore. Because 1 terabyte of storage space is so out of reach, today? [1] Ethereum Chain Full Sync Data Size: 954.28 GB as of 09/06/2021 [2] [1] https://www.amazon.com/Blue-NAND-1TB-SSD-WDS100T2B0A/dp/B073... [2] https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethereum_chain_full_sync_data...

sha256 is only 256 bits, so it's obviously easy to solve right? i suppose life is more satisfying on the surface, when you only need to argue against straw-men, but surely that's a ticking time bomb?

he simultaneously invokes and cries strawmen, the most common of feats

Re: MetaMask now has over 8M users

#48

Post by keymone »

omarfarooq wrote: post #47
keymone wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sha256 is only 256 bits, so it's obviously easy to solve right? i suppose life is more satisfying on the surface, when you only need to argue against straw-men, but surely that's a ticking time bomb?

he simultaneously invokes and cries strawmen, the most common of feats

one invokes straw-man and can't recognize when it's being pointed out by example of another, more ridiculous straw-man. sigh.

just stop and think for a second. you don't need to go down this road. drop the initial straw-man and try asking a question if you don't understand what's being argued.

Re: MetaMask now has over 8M users

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Post by omarfarooq »

keymone wrote: post #48
omarfarooq wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

he simultaneously invokes and cries strawmen, the most common of feats

one invokes straw-man and can't recognize when it's being pointed out by example of another, more ridiculous straw-man. sigh. just stop and think for a second. you don't need to go down this road. drop the initial straw-man and try asking a question if you don't understand what's being argued.

The beginning of the path to transcending the invocation of strawmen, is to identify your own strawmen.

Re: MetaMask now has over 8M users

#50

Post by keymone »

omarfarooq wrote: post #49
keymone wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

one invokes straw-man and can't recognize when it's being pointed out by example of another, more ridiculous straw-man. sigh. just stop and think for a second. you don't need to go down this road. drop the initial straw-man and try asking a question if you don't understand what's being argued.

The beginning of the path to transcending the invocation of strawmen, is to identify your own strawmen.

so why don't you?

if you're unable to walk back the thread, i'll remind that you were the one who started straw-maning by assuming that i think chainsize alone is the problem with syncing a full node.

stop making assumptions and start asking questions.

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