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Haha, I'll be waiting to purchase until Linux reviews surface or MicroCenter offers the same discount on TR and i9 chips.

I love the C.H.I.P board, seems like they'd have better market penetration if their name wasn't "CHIP" though. I feel like the Particle IOT line has suffered a similarly hindrence?

Damn, now I have a legitimate reason to buy a sailboat ;)

Another excuse to raise rent...

Why not build a small super-capacitor or lithium ion bank that you'd charge at work?

Also, unless you have perfect weather (I.e. the Bay Area) and require no energy for HVAC this system is almost useless.

Please, no.

At least someone didn't suggest Bancor as a "plausible example".

After working in the space for about a year, after being a developer and enthusiast surrounding crypto since the early days of BTC this "bickering among core devs" is nothing new.

Any press or "talks" that say otherwise are either being influenced with serious bias or are simply reporting false information.

I like DLT tech, however, if bitcoin has shown us anything it's that once you solve the double-spend problem you're still left with an even more grotesque problem of governance.

People pick fun at ETH since it has a "single leader", but Vitalik is more of a back-seat conductor than a "grand leader". Also, most arguments of "bitcoin being a truly decentralized platform because our devs are decentralized" can easily be diffused by vaguely looking into how BlockStream operates...

The political shit-storm being paraded by BTC needs to end soon, we really don't need another 2-3 years of douchey BTC core devs arguing on the internet and bad-mouthing any project that isn't BTC.

Usually, companies conducting ICO's only release the block number in advance, the smart contract address is generally released last sometimes just hours before the ICO start time.

Yep, there's more than enough liquidity. People clearing more than $70k USD worth of ETH are usually going through OTC channels, not through exchanges like Poloniex and Coinbase. OTC fees are generally higher than exchanges, but offer the advantage of legally guaranteed finality and no chance of slippage affecting your transaction (exactly what happened with GDAX when the price of ETH briefly dropped to $0.10).

When deals are large enough, sometimes they are even executed as a set of "tranches" (large set of smaller transactions over time) so the transfer isn't easily traceable and counter-parties remain largely unknown.

This was bound to happen at some point... It'll be interesting to see how low the dip goes as a result of this ICO failure.

Currently on mobile, but the hardware blog Hardware Cannucks has a fantastic post covering how "true" ECC support / functionality is on Ryzen. They also investigate this on both Windows and Linux.

I do this, especially enjoyable when you happen upon an avocado that's just ripe enough to be almost buttery.

Interesting, could you possibly explain how "halt behavior" indicates that ECC is fully functioning? I've just read a lot about ECC being compatible but not tests explicitly showing it works.

I generally have workflows that heavily utilize docker, i.e. use at least 2GB, docker compose on my MBP can take up to 6-8 minutes.

For me it's still unclear how much of a real advantage IPC provides for common tasks or non-parallel process a developer might be running.

My only qualm is that purchasing an i7 7700 system in comparison to a Ryzen 1700 system is almost the same price (since I'm buying my CPU from MircoCenter).

The use of my desktop is maybe 5% gaming, the rest is software dev and browsing, isn't there still a reason to prefer an IPC advantage for compilers and other system tasks?

I mentioned this, because I don't think a 12 core CPU would really give me that much more productivity or value gain than an i7 7700 or Ryzen 1700.

I only really need a single linux compatible nVidia GPU, enough cores and ram to comfortably handle 20 browser tabs, an IDE and a relatively hefty docker dev flow.

I'm still waiting for a more diverse set of synthetic and real-world benchmarks. It'll be interesting to see how IPC performance holds up with Threadripper, however I think the most interesting debate will be whether the 1920x or lowest end Epyc CPU are a better buy.

Unfortunately, even as an enthusiast $799 is more than I'm willing to spend on a CPU. I'm also still hard pressed to build a Ryzen 1700 System since I can purchase an i7 7700 from MicroCenter for about $10 less than the Ryzen part (and have equal or better general performance with notable better IPC).

Interesting to see the paradigm of "bitcoin is doing well, everything else must be less useful" is making a comeback? I the reason progressively larger corrections have been happening is due to more people who know nothing about crypto entering the space, therefore introducing more volatility and reflexive baseless reasoning.

If you question this, join one of the "crpyto currency" groups on FaceBook and read through a majority of the posts... I've come across people who've taken out loans to purchase crypto and people who installed wallets locally and wondered why the crypto they bought on CoinBase didn't magically appear. The most disconcerting posts are those who constantly ask "why did the price go up or down" or blindly post their chart predictions as to why the currency will keep going up in value.

I haven't tried but it seems like a good way to linearize my thought process at times and give myself some form of accountability to prevent getting distracted as often.

However, I'd be worried about accidentally revealing a system password or credentials by accident.

Oh boy, well let's wait and see if this release blows up on the launchpad...

They should add a benchmark for nominal time for tx finality & tx price for some amount of USD.

I'm considering entering the space as a NCG, luckily I have good connections and experience in the space. My alternative is to leverage my startup experience and just work in some other industry that interests me. My one doubt with blockchain is that there isn't a ton of non-enterprise money in the space. Seems like founding in just about any other industry is likely more profitable and more technically reasonable.

It's great that only 5 actors control a majority of the value LMAO. Even Gnosis handled their roll-out more gracefully than the BAT team.

Developer Cons:

Some write shitty smart contracts.

Yeah, XRP doesn't have much utility for the average user. Also noticed the gaping error citing that Ethereum Classic implements crypto-note.

If you want to look at a token that's about as close to a complete scam as tokenly possible, look no further than Gnosis. The GNO token doesn't actually directly translate to an asset that can be used on their prediction market come launch. Even more, investors only control 4.5% of the GNO tokens in existence, granted this was all done AFTER Gnosys had more than enough existing funding. Cash grab, plain and simple.

You should consider differentiating "tokens" from crypto-currencies backed by their own unique blockchain implementation. For example, Golem is a token built on Ethereum, however, it's not really a true "crypto-currency", rather a payment layer for Golem's "fog" computing platform.

Could be a decent way to solve the current zoning / housing crysis. The only disruption not welcome in the Bay seems to be from Mother Nature.

The price-point is what really has me excited. Their last e-paper reader / annotation tablet was nearly $1000!

Interesting, now it makes sense why I couldn't re-add my credit card to purchase ETH that I planned to convert into some alts immediately.

After some snooping, it seems like hundreds of people haven't been able to add credit/debit cards for days.

I really enjoy keeping a number of honey bee colonies in the summer on my rooftop in Boston. However, you lost me at "herbal medicine".

What a shame. EEVblog and AVE have been some of my favorite engineering channels on YouTube for some time now, hopefully Louis Rossman isn't next.