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eyezickon In 2024, please switch to Firefox

Eh, I tried unfortunately and it's not the same. Especially with video processing, my older Macbook Pro heats up very quickly when using Firefox vs Chrome.

Firefox's history bar is still superior though

eyezickon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)

The Defiant | NYC | Onsite or remote within 3 of EST timezone | Full-time |

The Defiant is building the essential information platform for decentralized finance. We aim to be the Bloomberg of DeFi, for both news and data.

* Lead Frontend Engineer: https://thedefiant.io/job/senior-frontend/

Lots of Typescript and React. More details on the job listing.

eyezickon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)

The Defiant | NYC | Onsite or remote within 3-6 hrs of EST timezone | Full-time | Lead/Senior Backend, Data Engineer, Web Developer The Defiant is building the essential information platform for decentralized finance. We aim to be the Bloomberg of DeFi, for both news and data.

Lead/Senior Backend (https://thedefiant.io/job/lead-senior-backend-developer/):

- AWS EC2, Lambda, AWS Managed DB, PostgreSQL, Timescale DB

- Node.js/Typescript, Express

- Python for Lambda jobs

Data Engineer (https://thedefiant.io/job/crypto-data-engineer/):

- AWS EC2, Lambda, AWS Managed DB, PostgreSQL, Timescale DB

- Python for Lambda jobs

Web Developer (https://thedefiant.io/job/full-stack-developer/):

- Fullstack but more frontend heavy work

- Maintaining thedefiant.io website and newsletter

- Migrate to Ghost and away from Wordpress

eyezickon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)

The Defiant | NYC | Onsite or remote within 3-6 hrs of EST timezone | Full-time | Lead/Senior Backend, Data Engineer, Web Developer

The Defiant is building the essential information platform for decentralized finance. We aim to be the Bloomberg of DeFi, for both news and data.

Lead/Senior Backend:

- AWS EC2, Lambda, AWS Managed DB, PostgreSQL, Timescale DB

- Node.js/Typescript, Express

- Python for Lambda jobs

Lead Data Engineer:

- AWS EC2, Lambda, AWS Managed DB, PostgreSQL, Timescale DB

- Python for Lambda jobs

Web Developer

- Fullstack but more frontend heavy work

- Maintaining thedefiant.io

- Migrate to Ghost and away from Wordpress

Apply at: https://thedefiant.io/jobs

eyezickon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)

The Defiant | NYC | Onsite or remote within 3-6 hrs of EST timezone | Full-time | Lead/Senior Backend, Data Engineer

The Defiant is building the essential information platform for decentralized finance. We aim to be the Bloomberg of DeFi, for both news and data.

Lead/Senior Backend: - AWS EC2, Lambda, AWS Managed DB, PostgreSQL, Timescale DB - Node.js/Typescript, Express - Python for Lambda jobs

Lead Data Engineer: - AWS EC2, Lambda, AWS Managed DB, PostgreSQL, Timescale DB - Python for Lambda jobs

Apply at: https://thedefiant.io/jobs

eyezickon Solana Labs completes a $314M private token sale led by Andreessen Horowitz

I wouldn't say PoS security has to be driven by the rich, but by whoever is staking, which people could be staking small like lets say 1 ETH total. The security is derived simply by the threat of having your staked ETH (however much) slashed away.

eyezickon Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge

The point is it mitigates the on-chain attack surface which is still prevalent on PoW. Off-chain attacks are still possible for all consensus mechanism.

eyezickon Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge

I'd further add on to say PoS has the benefit of being able to eliminate bad actors unilaterally. You can't stop anyone from attacking a PoW chain over and over again. Attacking a PoS chain is much riskier as the attacker's stakes are held on chain and are at the mercy of the community who uses the network.

eyezickon Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge

Yup and accordingly PoS devs have explicitly stated this incentivizes stakers to be spread out, and not only on infrastructure but software, as there are multiple client implementations.

eyezickon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2019)

Location: NYC area

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Node.js, Javascript, Ethereum, Blockchain, React, AWS, Mocha, SQL

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PaHqTYy9YB7RQjl5WT6yPTobKWs...

Email: isaac at eyezick.com

eyezickon Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M, but the money was gone

Yup: "The Monitor has commenced a preliminary review of the transactional activity of the Identified Bitcoin Cold Wallets utilizing public blockchain records. This analysis..."

eyezickon Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M, but the money was gone

This article is innaccurate.

Here is the tracking by Ernst & Young (court-appointed) providing all the public information about these developments. The latest report on 1 March 2019 mentions nothing about a cracked laptop.

https://documentcentre.eycan.com/Pages/Main.aspx?SID=1445

eyezickon Ask HN: Codebase at my work is a complete mess, what should I do?

To add on to this, you can still improve the code quality while building on it by adding tests as you go, so you can have some solace and also sanity when testing your own code.

eyezickon Introduction to Augur, an open-source, decentralized betting marketplace

Reporting weight is based on amount of REP held, not just anyone can report and not all contributions are equal.

https://www.augur.net/whitepaper.pdf covers the security assumptions pretty well.

eyezickon Ask HN: Have you lived abroad for an extended period of time? Was it valuable?

I didn't, I was looking for a specific kind of work (Ethereum related) and it just so happened to be in Netherlands.

eyezickon Ask HN: Have you lived abroad for an extended period of time? Was it valuable?

Moved from U.S. to Netherlands 6 months ago, and will stay for at least another year.

I moved for work, and I gained a cool new project to work on and new adventures, but didn't have my family, friends, or any familiarity of the culture.

It quite accustoms you to leaving your comfort zone, which is powerful and awesome. And it forced me to really value my relationships, and I found myself deliberately making an effort to catch up and keep in touch with some friends that I really valued.

eyezickon Building for the Blockchain

Depends on the specific implementation. Just because you do it on a blockchain doesn't mean you can't require people to show up to a polling center and sign transactions in person.

With Ethereum, one way to do it is to make the voting weight non-transferable, meaning to give someone else your vote you'd need to give your private key.

It would be of course crazy to do that; like giving someone your bank card and PIN number to give them cash.

eyezickon Building for the Blockchain

> But then you've lost all of the advantages that the blockchain was claimed to possess.

That's a very wide brush stroke to paint. You just have to analyze each use case independently.

In the same example of land registry, just a transparent history is a huge value add when dealing with corrupt government officials. Here's a case study https://s3.amazonaws.com/ipri2016/casestudy_collindres.pdf . Voting transparency even with the government as the part of centralization is a huge value add imo.

Further, even allowing centralization in certain points, like a SpaceX IPO (which should def be centralized), allows whoever holds a share to make arbitrary, trustless mediums and rules of exchange.

eyezickon Building for the Blockchain

Augur (mentioned on the article) is fundamentally a decentralized oracle

eyezickon Building for the Blockchain

> If your code doesn't reach out beyond the blockchain, then there's very little it can actually do.

Asset issuance, voting, wills, identity/reputation systems, land registries.

Fundamentally, a blockchain is just public, transparent immutable data history. Of the above sample cases, all it takes is for the powers to be to recognize the data as a reflection of the real world; which is a barrier outside of the technology.

And sidenote, decentralized oracles will literally tie outside world to the blockchain.

eyezickon Building for the Blockchain

> Developers need to rely on trusted third party data providers, called oracles

It's ironic that they mention Augur by name in the article, but are apparently unaware its main innovation is the decentralized oracle that just so happens to have a prediction market built on top of it.

> I feel like this is more of a feature than a bug.

That is indeed 100% by design. All smart contract code in Ethereum has to be deterministic to guarantee computational consensus, and of course this can only be done by having a closed EVM.

eyezickon Parity Wallet security alert

https://github.com/ConsenSys/smart-contract-best-practices/b...

Bullet #1: Prepare for failure

eyezickon Bitcoin Surges Past $7,000 to Extend Record Rally

I wouldn't say Ether is trying to replace Bitcoin's use case (at least not yet).

The real, better cryptocurrency will probably be a stable token running on Ethereum.

eyezickon Show HN: 4chan on the Ethereum blockchain

Good use cases exist because of the viability of the platform, not of their popularity. And even I meant to communicate financial "business logic", which is widely used in ICO's.

eyezickon Show HN: 4chan on the Ethereum blockchain

This statement is too broad.

Current state of software is only appropriate for some use cases. Email/text messaging (like 4chan) are not practical uses. Financial business logic handling is a great use case.

eyezickon Show HN: No Coin – A browser extension to block coin miners

CPU mining is so unprofitable, but I suppose with thousands of users..

eyezickon Announcing Blockstream Satellite

Scalability too. You could even boast a crazier achievement like a full node capable of running on every smart-phone, but the potential is handcuffed as the network can only handle ~7 transactions a second.

eyezickon Show HN: TimeBank, Ethereum dApp

No worries

eyezickon Show HN: TimeBank, Ethereum dApp

And the ERC20 contract is here https://etherscan.io/address/0x18ce0b9fedceb66e9fb7783bbddb4... The site uses both contracts and both are linked on the Navbar FAQ.

eyezickon Augur REP Token Critical Vulnerability Disclosure

Vlad isn't a dev fyi, and he pretty much does say his tweet was hyperbolic intentionally to temper the crazy bullishness of the time