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Re: How to send $ETH in 19 lines of Python

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Post by aclatuts »

anotha1 wrote: post #5

Tell me how to do something worth doing with ETH and I'll be impressed. Cue the intellectualization from "investors."

When I was buying ethereum at 17 dollars and getting a mortgage. I was buying it hoping sometime in the future I could renew the mortgage with an ethereum contract.

It could detail in code the principal, functions to trigger interest rate increases/decreases, functions to cancel, early termination fees, payment addresses, max payments per year, end dates, and whatever else a mortgage contract would need.

As a developer I would have felt much more comfortable with that than legal papers, brochures and pamphlets.

Re: How to send $ETH in 19 lines of Python

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Post by zionic »

anotha1 wrote: post #5

Tell me how to do something worth doing with ETH and I'll be impressed. Cue the intellectualization from "investors."

What do you define as "worth doing"? DeFi alone has tons of potential answers to that question. Then there's decentralized exchanges... or do you not think decentralized currency exchange is "worth doing"?

Re: How to send $ETH in 19 lines of Python

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Post by anotha1 »

Igelau wrote: post #12
vmception wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there anything you would like to do that you need ETH for? Are you looking for inspiration or are you looking to talk about use cases that you will never be in the market for?

How do they know what they need ETH for if they don't know what it's actually useful for? I'd be curious what a few of your top "you need ETH for this" cases are.

So are you fishing for ideas now?

I'm not going to "prove myself" here so that you can give me the blessing to ask a valid question.

In sibling comment I mentioned DAO, but those are a bit out of reach for more than just the technology are far to immature.

Everything else sounds like the next new future fallacy [1]. But no, your "libertarian" ideals won't flourish when you sprinkle in a little crypto and run your servers out of china.

[1] https://andrewchen.com/the-next-feature-fallacy-the-fallacy-...

Re: How to send $ETH in 19 lines of Python

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Post by ptudan »

Shish2k wrote: post #20
nootropicat wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Making insane yield (50%-300% apr, depending on the time) on dollars

That’s exactly the problem for me: I’m the kind of person who sees money as “a token to be traded for goods and / or services”, and why would any normal person (ie, not counting crypto investment nerds) want to trade their eth if the most profitable thing to do is to hoard it?

Why do you buy things when you could only ever save?

Re: How to send $ETH in 19 lines of Python

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Post by anotha1 »

aclatuts wrote: post #21
anotha1 wrote: post #5

Tell me how to do something worth doing with ETH and I'll be impressed. Cue the intellectualization from "investors."

When I was buying ethereum at 17 dollars and getting a mortgage. I was buying it hoping sometime in the future I could renew the mortgage with an ethereum contract. It could detail in code the principal, functions to trigger interest rate increases/decreases, functions to cancel, early termination fees, payment addresses, max payments per year, end dates, and whatever else a mortgage contract would need. As a develop…

> buying ethereum at 17 dollars

Not so humble brag...

*Back to reading*

Yeah, recently bought a place and yes, the process is hostile to the consumer (200 pages of legal sized dense contract, give me a break).

However, did you ever think that there could be a, you know, simpler solution than, say, CRYPTOGRAPHY LOL

PS: cash-out now if you want to humble brag after ******* happens!

Re: How to send $ETH in 19 lines of Python

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Post by teawrecks »

anotha1 wrote: post #5

Tell me how to do something worth doing with ETH and I'll be impressed. Cue the intellectualization from "investors."

More like, cue the crypto critics.

There are a million and one places to talk about the veracity of cryptocurrency. This thread doesn't seem like one of those places.

Re: How to send $ETH in 19 lines of Python

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Post by f38zf5vdt »

RKearney wrote: post #13

I wish the software engineering community would stop with the click-bait headlines. Write a game in 2 lines of Python: import MonolithicGameSDK MonolithicGameSDK.run()

201X+ headlines in general. Title should be changed to "I imported a python library and used it without throwing an Exception, and so can you!"
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