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cstein2··on Build a newsletter with a single prompt
It seemed crazy to me that none of the personal newsletter services out there let you just write the filter prompt yourself, so I built this. I think its much simpler and more flexible. Feedback welcome!
cstein2··on FTX’s financial black hole leaves Binance balking at rescue plan
Is amazon web services not a service people pay for? People are currently buying computation (a service) with crypto. I spend ETH to deploy and execute code, in the exact same way I pay USD to AWS to deploy and execute my code.
cstein2··on FTX’s financial black hole leaves Binance balking at rescue plan
> But those fees go to stakers (who do provide a service, albeit a dumb one).

That service is the point of the whole thing. The fees go to stakers who *execute your computation for you and ensure the integrity of the results*. ETH is analogous to credits on AWS. It's simply an execution environment with different properties from AWS.

cstein2··on Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index
Here's the paper of Cardano's provably secure PoS algorithm https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/889.pdf
cstein2··on Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index
Miners are incentivised with transaction fees alone after all the bitcoins are mined.
cstein2··on Show HN: A first project in Rust – in-memory order book
I suspect it will remain a toy, but agreed on those optimizations
cstein2··on Show HN: A first project in Rust – in-memory order book
Yeah I was planning on playing around with the performance/optimizing it. Didn't know about that binance data feed though, thanks.
cstein2··on Show HN: A first project in Rust – in-memory order book
Thanks! What would you suggest instead of a global/lazy static in this situation though? I recall struggling to pass some dynamically allocated structure into the hyper service instantiation.
cstein2··on Show HN: A first project in Rust – in-memory order book
Thanks for the info! I definitely did not know all of that :). I do work at a crypto exchange, but on the custody/stablecoin side, not the exchange team.

Can you elaborate a little on the "pinging" process to extract information? Sounds interesting

cstein2··on Show HN: A first project in Rust – in-memory order book
Leaking the number of orders seemed like a bad idea
cstein2··on Show HN: A first project in Rust – in-memory order book
I was imagining inserts at an unoccupied price level would be relatively rare in normal order book operation, so a Vec just seemed simpler
cstein2··on Show HN: A first project in Rust – in-memory order book
Feedback welcome! I'm sure I'm missing loads of Rust patterns and idioms...