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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27303028 most of the discussion around this is here.

still rare, but now easier to spot :)

"This would be great as part of our new AMP Messenger!" Jokes aside, I wonder how one could measure above-average PM performance without tying it to product launches.

You don't lose UBI by working. UBI should be intended to be the lowest possible amount of money to live. Life won't be fun/good if you're only relying on UBI. In that model I imagine plenty would prefer to keep their job in addition to UBI.

Any protocol change is, by definition, a fork. If everyone says the new PoS Bitcoin is the real Bitcoin, then it is so.

Yeah it does. It's a shame and hopefully the risks are made clearer over time.

They don't hand-pick miners at the end of the day- it's an on-chain vote (by token-holders and I'm sure they own a large sum so point taken).

Maybe not the best example- I'm not too familiar with the structure and they definitely over-hype everything about the project. Still the parallel is there of making a centralized thing more accessible / open to more market participants.

I can be a market maker for an exchange with just $100... not sure how that isn't anything new. I can get a flash loan for $10,000,000 with zero credit to profit off of arbitrage opportunities. Yes, this is all focused on money but nothing to do with speculation or ponzi schemes.

DeFi is sort of billed as an "internet of money," so it makes sense that it's focused on financial systems. Unfortunately many do just dump their life savings and hope to get rich quick. A similar thing happened during the dot com boom in the traditional markets. I imagine a lot of this will settle over time (and there will still be scams and pump and dumps, just as there are in penny stocks / the wider internet in general).

As for Internet Computer, the application to the governance system is decentralized and votes are made by token holders on-chain. It's decentralized in that the votes are open and auditable.

BSC sucks, agree with you there but they're far from the norm. I'm really just shocked that there's so little interest in the tech behind all the protocols here given the wider hacker ethos.

There's a weird insistence (especially here on HN) that if blockchain isn't doing something that can't be done in another way then it is useless.

In reality just doing normal, established processes in a distributed way often is the value-add. See decentralized finance[0]. All these tools and primitives exist in traditional finance, but when it's decentralized all market participants can get a cut of the rewards instead of just the big banks.

A more recent AWS-like example is Internet Computer[1]. A more open way to on-board data centers and build distributed apps. Could it be done in a centralized way? Yes, of course. Is it more fair and open if it's decentralized? Also yes.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08778

[1] https://dfinity.org/data-centers

Most, not all. E.g. DAI [0]

[0] https://makerdao.com/en/whitepaper#abstract

A random tweet about a concept not being "fundamentally ridiculous" is an awfully low bar to discredit intelligence. Have a look at his blog[0] and let me know if that reinforces your belief.

Besides, if you read the whole thread you'd know he's acknowledging that if we could simulate QC classically, then we'd be able to have more efficient classical search algorithms. It's an if that's likely impossible at scale but not, by definition, impossible.

[0] https://vitalik.ca/

In theory there is some point in which the amount minted is lower than the amount lost (through losing keys/bad transactions/etc). In that case the inflationary currency is, in practice, deflationary.

Yeah they've had a strong display partnership for a long time.

In the US market it's much more dominant.

That's useful, but as someone with an unreliable memory having to recall specific commands under pressure doesn't sound too fun :)

I'm really sorry to hear that. I don't think anyone is suggesting suicide is no longer an issue- it most definitely is. However, anecdata is not a great metric for measuring large society-level changes.

Appreciate the response! Don't mean to make any claims about the legitimacy of the project- I'm sure your intentions are good.

Think I'd recommend a different title next time better indicating the current state. That and maybe replace the whitepaper link with a direct link to the github as it's a frustrating flow to open a PDF to see it's behind a signup wall.

Whitepapers are generally the introduction to a product and shouldn't live behind an interest form imo

Doesn't help if it's, say, on the undercarriage/trunk of your car.

What if you don't have an iPhone?

Link to their statuspage (still up for me): https://status.auth0.com/incidents/zvjzyc7912g5?u=v0zzz6jxvb...

Edit: aaaand it's down

Also configurable speed controls + skipping whitespace + easier to skip ads (Spotify podcasts break out the ads into their own streams so you can't skip them all in one go, though you can skip them individually).

Think they mean you can't easily swap out the code and iterate, as the current chain is the "value" so any update has to be widely accepted and heavily tested to not taint that value.

https://www.hegic.co/ is an on-chain options protocol if that's the kind of thing you're looking for.

It's easier than you think. Just five organizations command >50% of hashpower[0]. I don't think it's likely to change soon but it's not out of the realm of possibility, and it's not even the most decentralized cryptocurrency in terms of difficulty to enforce new network rules.

[0] https://news.bitcoin.com/5-mining-50-btc-hashrate/ (I fully understand this is a pro-BCH site but their sources are accurate)

I fully understand that, but sentiment can change. It's disingenuous to say it won't change in the future because it hasn't yet changed.

This is just plain incorrect. Every cryptocurrency's rules can be changed via hard fork. Bitcoin doesn't have any magic property that guarantees there won't be a hard fork affecting the emission schedule.

Yeah I believe you mean BSC

You can tokenize anything in concept- right now it's just crypto + small number of stocks. It's slowly building out a distributed version of Wall Street. That is the value-add, and it doesn't need to do anything more than that for it to be revolutionary.

Loans in defi are over-collateralized right now meaning there's very little risk for the lenders. This will likely change as distributed identity/credit scores are implemented.

A couple examples of what's to come: https://cointelegraph.com/news/defi-s-critical-missing-piece... https://medium.com/minaprotocol/snark-powered-defi-teller-bu...

This would be a voluntary self-disclosure. Similar to current restaurant COVID contract tracing projects.