daics | 6 years ago | on: MakerDAO gets stress tested as ETH price plummets
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daics | 7 years ago | on: Vitalik Buterin on Cryptoeconomics and Markets in Everything
$1M in new loans issued every 3.5 days for the last 7 months at 0.5% APR.
daics | 8 years ago | on: Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit
Blockchains are not the next big thing in databases. They are here to revolutionize how existing organizations co-ordinate, enter into contracts with each other, and even allow individuals themselves co-ordinate directly with each other without intermediaries through novel org structures.
You are trading computational scalability for social scalability.
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2017/02/money-blockchains-a...
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daics | 8 years ago | on: Coinbase adds support for Litecoin
I know you can do it on Bitcoin too, but has anyone done it? It took a team less than 2 months to build this OTC market on Ethereum.
Bitcoin can do one type of money with extremely rigid parameters that is volatile and not efficient for payment transfers. Ether is similar but at least has lower transaction costs, but Ethereum is well on it's way to host a hundred other types of money by the end of 2017.
daics | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are you working on?
daics | 9 years ago | on: Stablecoins: A Holy Grail in Digital Currency
daics | 9 years ago | on: Stablecoins: A Holy Grail in Digital Currency
daics | 9 years ago | on: Stablecoins: A Holy Grail in Digital Currency
The Maker protocol doesn't use MKR as collateral, instead it serves as an efficient debt engine for other liquid assets and its holders collects fees on these debt positions almost like a bank. The interest fees collected stream in real-time from those who take debt(yes, this is possible on a blockchain) and a large portion is sent to depositors who hold on to the dollar stablecoin a savings rate in real time too.
Ether is just the first asset being used to perfect the mechanisms needed for fully autonomous banking. Any real world asset can be tokenized to take advantage of this efficient lending protocol right now.