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I don't think setups like I described warrant "a polluted dystopian hive, alienated from those around you". I'm a human being. Not sure how to respond in a way that moves the conversation forward though. A VR workspace can be a huge relief from distractions. Perhaps a more relatable setting is an open office, surrounded by colleagues, and being able to instead flip a switch and be in a remote work setting in VR.

Some of us don't work in such a privileged place as you with a community and nature. Some of us work in cramped apartments, with roommates and partners clicking and typing nearby. With noise and light pollution to add to the distraction. It's overwhelming and we can't focus but we can't afford to go anywhere else. Sitting in the Oculus opening lobby is like a dream.

My understanding is this is the key innovation that Magic Leap promised a solution for.

Yes in a world where "selling for crazy prices" means a "sense of participation and belonging", word algebra can take you anywhere you want!

Yes, according to Ben Thompson's latest post on Stratechy, "OpenSea, Web3, and Aggregation" [1]. He suggests that the next age of the web will replace accounts with no technical lock in, and network effects with virtual communities (see the diagram at the end of the article).

[1]: https://stratechery.com/2022/opensea-raises-money-bans-nfts-...

Here's a similar Reddit job post from October 2021 (3 months ago) regarding NFTs: https://boards.greenhouse.io/reddit/jobs/3454478

""" For Reddit, it will always be about community. As the “frontpage of the Internet”, Reddit brings over 430 million people together each month through their common interests, inviting them to share, vote, comment, and create across thousands of communities. If there is one thing we’ve noticed with NFTs, they too have an incredible power to create a sense of participation and belonging. With every new NFT project, a vibrant community of owners pops up with it. Fans of today’s biggest creators and brands are now flocking to buy digital goods directly from them -- to support them, to gain exclusive access, and to feel a greater sense of connection with them. Over time, we believe this will only grow, and NFTs will play a central role in how fans support their favorite creators and communities.

Our team is a new and exciting, rapidly growing team that aims to build the largest creator economy on the internet, powered by independent creators, digital goods, and NFTs. We are looking for strong engineers and leaders to help us seed the team, set its strategy, and build for the future. If you ask us, the NFT movement has only just begun, so come and join our team to get started. """

Have either of you seen a thorough analaysis of this Block project somewhere? Interested in finding a community like HN + more than 2 people responding regarding a big project like this.

Is anyone building CDN service on top of IPFS? IPFS is certainly too slow for many applications but perhaps there are tiny niches where it makes sense today? More like tape drive storage?

Have you found anyone talking or writing about this "trusted centralized store"? I could even see reading fictional use cases for the year 2030 or something. Bitcoin will be twice as old at that point. What happens to the petrodollar in 2030? Speculative is fine, even encouraged. Dystopian futures are in general easy to imagine ("and then everyone dies!!"). These stories I want require hard thinking and analysis instead.

Here's an example of what I want more of - a blockchain analysis by Institute for the Future from 2017: https://www.iftf.org/fileadmin/user_upload/downloads/blockch...

Appreciate your response here. I also find the "pyramid scheme" framing to fall short. But I'm no expert, I welcome a rigorous analysis by someone with a background in ponzi and pyramid schemes. (Disclosure own btc and etc)

This presentation of the data suggests Bitcoin is at a "1998" level of development in terms of total number of users. I'm curious about this "number of users" metric, how would it map to adoption of other tech like telephones, televisions, cell phones, and smart phones.

I imagine there are some good podcasts or articles discussing sharing in greater depth. I'm interested as well if anyone has suggestions!

Here's an article About Dubai putting its entire land registry on the blockchain:

https://www.ccn.com/100-dubai-put-entire-land-registry-block...

Here's a recent article from the NYTimes on buying things with Bitcoin. None of the examples seem impressive, a doctor accepting payments for covid tests, sex worker getting paid: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/style/what-can-you-actual...

1,700 tps for VISA is a good benchmark. I recall VISA's technical capability is 10x or 100x that number,

Ethereum 1.0 can handle 30 transactions per second.

Part of the development dubbed "Ethereum 2.0" is focused on scaling the number of transactions via sharding. Each shard will be able to handle 2,400 tps. As more shards are deployed up to 64, Ethereum 2.0 will reach 160,000 tps.

Are there any other examples of recent + long cycle developments? Solar? Electric vehicles?

Part of me has come to expect such fast development (Facebook, Uber, Yelp!), but other modern industries must have longer cycles I just am not paying attention.

I also want a writeup covering some examples of Bitcoin or Ethereum use that are relatable.

This recent NYTimes piece takes that approach, though none of the examples are that impressive: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/style/what-can-you-actual...

(Disclosure I own Bitcoin and Ethereum)

Same question I suppose. The parent diagram featured both the hype cycle and Moore's chasm. Do they both operate on different timescales or are they usually a decade end-to-end?

For a pyramid scheme that certainly holds up. Whoever joins last seems most incentivized to bring others in. Has anyone modeled pyramid scheme dynamics to Bitcoin perhaps at an academic level?

(Disclosure I own Bitcoin and Ethereum)

Did Moore ever talk about the time length of such cycles? I imagine it differs from industry to industry. Is blockchain on a 10 year cycle like Uber/Facebook, or a longer cycle?

(Disclosure I own Bitcoin and Ethereum)

Good stuff, so you would suggest to the author that their examples are too narrow. Perhaps that smartphones, Uber, and Facebook all represented somewhat minor "time has come" type innovations, whereas you see Bitcoin as a development more like the internet itself, and that instead we are in the Arpanet days.

(Disclosure I own Bitcoin and Ethereum)

The article suggests that using the phrase "it's early days" is incorrect in blockchain technology because Bitcoin and Ethereum have been around for 13 and 6 years respectively.

The author goes on to give examples like smartphones, Uber, and Tesla, all of which have had serious developments in terms of impact and usability in around the same time period. Then given that Bitcoin and Ethereum have not made similar progress in that time period suggests it is not "early days".

Users continue to get scammed and lose funds. So what is it instead? Middle days? End of life? Pre-early days?

Open to ideas here. The author seems to suggest that what we're seeing in blockchains is the best we're going to get out of it. If Bitcoin were middle aged, would users put up with all the warts knowing they won't go away?

(Disclosure I own Bitcoin and Ethereum)

Changes and updates

Update Tor Browser to 11.0.4.

Add a shortcut to open the Tor Connection assistant when starting Tor Browser if Tails is not connected to the Tor network yet.

As a Linux newbie I'm wary of distributions that include many of their own custom apps. I know most of these teams are just a few people and I doubt in their ability to create the "Apple" (OS + Apps) experience. Alas, I'm new to this so perhaps I'm missing something.

Do any Linux experts out there feel the same way?

Ah just to clarify, the blog post you referenced is from this past June. COSMIC based on Rust is a new development that System76 has not blogged about yet besides mentioning it in a Reddit post.

As a System76 fan, I too am curious to see what the point is. I have no idea what Rust is nor do I care.

Well said! I like how you spelled that out. "There are different elements of control, what's important for humans?"

There's a clear kind of "ubergovernment" tone in the responses to this thread that assumes governments are an omnipotent force. Is there a name for this, or is it common in discussions about blockchain? I suppose it's simply the other side of the coin on "uncensorable". To me the better argument against this is "no one will want to use it" vs "it's impossible to beat the government"

I'm curious about what exactly a "small fortune" would be to post an image to the Bitcoin blockchain.

For example, the Bitcoin Whitepaper PDF was embedded into the blockchain as 20kb. Here's a link to the specific transaction, encoded as a transaction with 947 outputs that hold the data: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/54e48e5f5c656b26c3bca14a8c...

Looking at the record, this transaction cost 198724 bytes. https://btc.network/estimate suggests that a transaction with 198724 bytes would cost about $200.

Not bad! Anyone up for posting a picture of Tank Man to the blockchain for $200?

Ah I googled to check and -- of course it's already been done in 2017: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4k73w/someone-put-the-tiana...

There's no fundamental link between the cost of storing data on a blockchain and time. However, practically, it does look like the most common blockchains have gotten more expensive over time: Bitcoin, Ethereum, even Dogecoin. However, you could imagine a blockchain that gets cheaper over time i.e. by issuing more coins or even stays the same.

That's a neat story that highlights the hacker mindset and what's cool about this little Handshake hack. Sure, it seems useless in a way, who cares about sharing a few characters on a blockchain or finding out what's for lunch. But there's something novel in it that sparks ideas.