decentralised

I would say they can be called PoS because that's the nature of the consensus algorithm used... but it's not in a "go live" production stage atm.

Since I recently developed an infatuation with nodejs (after 20 years of hating on js), would you mind sharing the "date as text" requirement? It should be trivial to compose with a string literal if the builtin toLocaleDateString() doesn't cut it.

There are testnest live for some time now but there is still plenty to do before anyone should trust their funds into the staking contracts.

edit: I mean, several dPoS networks went live without spending enough time considering the game theory attacks, but now we've seen them used on EOS and more recently on Steem so thats why I (personally) believe a real PoS is still a few months away at best.

I'm not in it for the audience.. in any case, maximalism is mostly a self-assigned title and the author of that blog describes himself as such

edit: how can something that is being discovered be late? The work on PoS is almost completely greenfield and far from trivial. Many people made many far too optimistic comments about how long it would take to get it right but no one can say it's late...

If you can define "pure" in terms of how it relates to energy consumption, I can try.

The one PoS system I'm (edit: deeply) familiar with is Ethereum 2.0's, I wrote about it a couple of years back: https://medium.com/@jpa_of_snc/consensus-casper-and-cryptoec...

There are testnets using this already: https://medium.com/prysmatic-labs/ethereum-2-0-phase-0-testn...

That's cryptoeconomics in a nutshell, mechanism design and decentralised governance.

I curate a popular resource on this here: https://github.com/jpantunes/awesome-cryptoeconomics

That's not even close to being correct, and blogs from maximalists are never a good source of correct information.

Happy to walk you through what PoS looks like in 2020, but you can look up the information yourself too.

I don't think being different is a flaw, but people are drawn towards the familiar and what I'm pointing at is that this is the reason why gaining real traction beyond the dev community is so hard.

I humbly suggest that you have just pointed out the major flaw for federated social networks and decentralised platforms in general: they do not serve the same purpose of Twitter, Facebook and the like.

Users come to these popular platforms not worried about what it will take from them, but what they can take from the platforms. Notoriety, fame, a following.. validation or just a business model.

No problem!

How about this:

    let attribute1, attribute2;
    try  {
     ({attribute1, attribute2} = getObject())
    } catch (e) {}

I'm a big fan of Brave! Not only do I have a mostly ad-free web experience but it also saves me bandwidth and time. 22 hours saved in one year to be precise.

In my own experience, hiring for VP and senior management roles tends to happen within the (closed) circuits of the current business leads / board members specially for small and medium sized companies.

Well... now you have one more CV to go over :-)

Thanks and best of luck in any case.

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Do you view delegated PoS as decentralised? :-)

Sounds like an awesome project, best of luck!

Are you open to remote from EU /CET?

Can you share some more details please?

Have a look: https://awesome.ipfs.io/

In terms of access time, the standard would be O(1) for hashtables which would be my best guess at how to best represent an ip to domain mapping. Reading from on chain data is done locally (if you have your own node) and is near instant, but for wider reach I think DNS over HTTP would be needed or wasm clients that can be run in a browser.

Here is a possible implementation in Ethereum: https://medium.com/the-ethereum-name-service/ethdns-9d56298f...

You are making an assumption about how blockchains work. Do you think the linked-list like structure of how blocks are added to the chain is how data is stored and retrieved?

For reference: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Core_0.11_(ch_2):_Data_St... https://hackernoon.com/getting-deep-into-ethereum-how-data-i...

The total number of coins in a chain is deterministic. If using a UTXO model, then it's the number of unspent outputs that are linked to your private key, if using the account model, then there is an on-chain state that holds your balance, your nonce and some space for code (which is how smart contracts work..).

In the case of ERC style tokens, the token issuing contract holds a hashtable that links public addresses to a token balance as well as an invariant for totalSupply.

In any case, anyone with access to a block explorer or a node can query for an address and see its balance using the provided APIs (in ethereum it would be web3.eth.getBalance('0xdeacafe')

I vaguely remember Vitalik mentioning multiproofs in the context of stateless clients for Ethereum 2.0, but this is what I could find: https://ethresear.ch/t/open-research-questions-for-phases-0-... and the code: https://github.com/ethereum/research/tree/master/merkle_tree

I also found a good article introducing multiproofs from Jim McDonald here: https://www.wealdtech.com/articles/understanding-sparse-merk...

One of the first examples of this "expertise-sharing" approach I can recall was from Toyota who sent some of their lean experts to help a NY charity run more efficiently.

story: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/nyregion/in-lieu-of-money...

FWIW, the latin form "ab initio" is not uncommon either (in Europe at least).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab_initio

I'm with you. I took 6 months off crypto/ eth community after going to the Aracon one conference and seeing trust fund babies drowning in VC money talk about "freedom".

I'd recommend getting a mentor.

In my experience, it makes a world of difference when you have someone you can reach out to and bounce some ideas off of..

I've been in the eurozone since it started.. only ever saw 500 euro bills being exchanged in casinos.

Some level of cryptography (hash functions and signatures), some distributed computing (consensus algorithms, P2P networking), some tech/economics (game theory, mechanism design).

If you start with Ethereum, the js ecosystem around it is by far the most advanced in the blockchain space and you can hit the ground running pretty fast building dApps while you learn more about the protocols that make them interesting.

I've been using cadCAD lately, might be interesting for others here: https://community.cadcad.org/