cslarson

It does not need to be more work. There is a default algo. Users can also opt for alternatives.

let people filter for themselves. someone is offended by pornography so chooses an algo that accounts for that, another is offended by anti-trans sentiment and another algo accounts for that. everyone should be more broadly free to speak but we are not all forced to listen.

I don't think these anti free speech "examples" have the effect that people who cite them expect. Yet they are used a lot which points to a striking disconnect in communication.

Ha this is so well put, thank you.

But it does surprise that so many technologists are falling into this trap (disregarding the innovation because of the plethora of junk it enables). The value of permission-less platforms and protocols should no be assessed absent of curation. Google, email spam filtering, wikipedia, the web abounds with examples and without curation we would be in a sea of shit.

I think adding .eth fell out of favor after Brantly Milligan was fired from his job and banned from Twitter.

Many of these may have been dropped as a response to Brantly Milligan being fired/canceled/banned from Twitter. At least that's why mine is up there. Could do some analysis on dates to confirm/disprove.

they don't necessarily require ongoing maintenance, it depends how they are coded. some might even say the "correct" way is a non-upgradeable back-end (on-chain solidity contracts) and hash-addressed, ipfs hosted front-end. anyone can then pin the front-end themselves to ensure access or just run the code locally. dapps should rely on centralised, server based components as that mostly defeats the purpose.

uniswap is a good example. when they release an upgrade users must explicitly adopt the new version. in fact uniswap v1 and v2 still see usage despite the release of uniswap v3.

just curious where you get the 30% figure. usdc borrowing on aave is 2.83% right now, which is practically reduced a further 0.97% by the AAVE incentives. most other stablecoins are in the same region.

Andre is an innovator, both of protocols and token distribution methods. He invented the notion of a "fair launch" with YFI. Nobody was ever forced to interact with the contracts he published, they chose to. But of course he became a big figure and then got untold amounts of shit dumped on him.

Anyway, here's hoping he continues as an anon. That's really the only way. People are ridiculous.

Don't keep your backup fully available at your house for this reason. Figure out we way to split it up and distribute it, but with redundancy.

Yes you can get pretty far just signing stuff but without general availability of those attestations you are quite limited.

That's a reasonable way to describe programmable blockchain - availability for these attestations.

The side effects may be horrible but almost certainly not in the naive way you imagine.

Not just currency but pretty much all financial services. I have blockchain based assets and have used an Ethereum based service to borrow against them to help buy a house. Tokens are an almost unimaginably large and general concept and will be applied to many things (real work assets, stocks, loyalty programs, etc.) and provide much more flexibility for how they are used, distributed and exchanged. DAOs are organizational structures that are built, generally, off of token based membership. This is also a huge landscape for social coordination.

A lot of this is just new, though. So explaining like this can only go so far and ultimately it must be experienced, like the original web in the 90s.

Agreed, this article highlights the important property (decentralized state) that programmable blockchain (web3/ethereum) provide and why that's needed to change the current power dynamics governing web activity.

Nothing really has surprised me more than how difficult it had been for a lot of you to understand what the value is here.

It is a database with a new property: data and rules for manipulating data can be fixed. Yes inefficient in iops but who cares - it allows a whole new class of activity.