> Today, we have all the tools we'll need, and indeed most of the tools we'll ever have, to build applications that are simultaneously cypherpunk and user-friendly. Really looking forward to the next couple years. Everyone has been writing this off as "no killer apps after 10 years" but there's a lot that's been happening to support adoption, from scaling to improved UX. In the next couple years those should percolat…
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Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?
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#32I’m wondering how this compares with other cryptocurrencies that seem to be getting some attention, like Solana?
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're going to leave a controversial comment like that then you should back it up
It’s backed by decentralized voting consensus
It’s decentralized in the same way lobbying a politician is decentralized.
Unless I’m remembering incorrectly, you need a ton of eth to partake in eth PoS voting.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
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This article isn't about tokens. If you believe blobs are "nonsense" that should be called out, I think that's an interesting discussion space to enter.
I was just repeating the quoted comment from the post I was replying to. Wasn't intending to say that the article was about tokens.
More generally, I would say that Etherium itself is mostly nonsense. I will admit I don't understand very well what the purpose of the "blobs" are that are being discussed in the article, but from my perspective the entire idea of blockchain technology is not useful. I have yet to be convinced that there is any real problem being solved by it, but there are a lot of problems that are created, which then need to be resolved with ever more esoteric and unproven solutions, like what is described in this article.
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#36All this crpyto technology is fascinating. But is it used for anything?
I asked this in an Ask HN today, but got no answer so far:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852389
It looks like not a single HN reader is using blockchain technology for anything.
If nobody is using blockchain technology outside of blockchain projects, what are the reasons we expect that some day we will? What could be a near term use case?
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#37> proto-danksharding Points for unique naming
Also for transparency: I like how Ethereum doesn't even attempt trying to make any of this appear accessible to curious outsiders.
Ethereum actually has excellent documentation... it's just that there's a mindboggling amount of it. Apparently it's quite complicated to make a worldwide trustlessly distributed computer that runs on imaginary money which nonetheless needs to be secure.
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#38> Today, we have all the tools we'll need, and indeed most of the tools we'll ever have, to build applications that are simultaneously cypherpunk and user-friendly. Really looking forward to the next couple years. Everyone has been writing this off as "no killer apps after 10 years" but there's a lot that's been happening to support adoption, from scaling to improved UX. In the next couple years those should percolat…
What value proposition does crypto offer that existing solutions do not?
The only reasonable answer crypto advocates can ever offer is “decentralization” and the lack of trust required.
The problem is, most people are perfectly fine trusting their financial institutions.
Another commenter was downvoted for saying “No one cares”, but a more precise way of putting this is “the average person doesn’t care about decentralization” and this is spot on.
It’s cool tech, but it reminds me a bit of math research - towers of abstractions built over decades, with little effect on the real world. We can only hope that some benefits will be uncovered down the line.
That’s what blockchain technology is: interesting research which will never be popular with or relevant to a lay person (outside of speculative bubbles)
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a security researcher who calls herself Isis Agora Lovecruft and I'm pretty sure it's not her real name. I thought it might be the same with this guy, but Dankrad seems to be an actual German name meaning something like "thanks for the advice"
I dunno, seems like a plausible trans person name, since we get to pick our own. Also, their twitter profile currently indicates that they use they/them pronouns, not she/her.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s backed by decentralized voting consensus
It’s decentralized in the same way lobbying a politician is decentralized. Unless I’m remembering incorrectly, you need a ton of eth to partake in eth PoS voting.
Distributed validator tech (DVT) has made it so you can participate in PoS voting with much less ETH than was required before, if you choose.