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But your friends do.
If the POTUS is not using Gmail, and I'm not either, at which point does Google get to block that?
If you are using Skynet for your project, I believe you need to run a node, which will require downloading the 23GB [1] blockchain from sia. I really hope these blockchain based projects can solve the sharding problem. These blockchains are getting so big. [1] https://siastats.info/blockchain_size
Its a myth that the whole chain is needed. Comes from BTC where you need the chain to recreate all transactions. It has zero practical use. If you would consider the current state of a blockchain to be "wrong" but everyone agreed to move forward anyway you may as well call it "correct" because by definition the majority decides what is right and what not in these systems. So you dont really need to validate the whole…
Curious: beyond XRPL, what are examples of such blockchains?
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With huge numbers of people following Trump off of Twitter, FB, et all, expect a huge hit to their stocks.
Twilio's stock took a noticeable bump upwards today.
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Its a myth that the whole chain is needed. Comes from BTC where you need the chain to recreate all transactions. It has zero practical use. If you would consider the current state of a blockchain to be "wrong" but everyone agreed to move forward anyway you may as well call it "correct" because by definition the majority decides what is right and what not in these systems. So you dont really need to validate the whole…
>second generation blockchains Curious: beyond XRPL, what are examples of such blockchains?
There is Stellar which is kinda a re-implementation of the XRPL with many smaller changes but its also using a FBA.
There is Flare (only test net exists at time of writing) its the first Turing-complete Federated Byzantine Agreement blockchain. Kinda the ETH 3.0. but it a new project that just used the EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) for code compatibility reasons.
Then there are DAG based "blockchains" but these are more experimental, as in no one really know if they "work" from a mathematical point of view. I would consider them to be the third generation if someone manages to fully implement it and run a public blockchain.
Am I the only one that can't download the examples, it just gets stuck. Also the dapp example throws me a json saying that skynet is blocked.
Are you in Europe by any chance? We haven't finished setting up load balancing yet and the Europe server is getting hit really hard right now. The dapp sample was blocked because it was mistaken for a phishing attempt (it's the Uniswap frontend) and Namecheap required us to block the link. Sloppy of us not to change the link to an unblocked example, we'll do that on Monday. In the meantime, here's a dapp sample: http…
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No, they've made purpose-built silicon for sia mining and it is no longer viable to mine on general purpose compute. As far as storage mining - it may be. last check (november) filecoin was the most profitable to host your disk space for but required a rediculous amount of compute as well as disk space (latest gen GPUs, 128G ram, near-100% uptime).
It's relatively early days for filecoin though. I suspect that after "we've got space and availability, see?" period, the restrictions for hosting will be relaxed.