rhyzom's comments

ok, i finally understand exactly what nihilism concretely refers to now. a state of being similar to the one of the hollow human replicas in "the invasion of the body snatchers"... so, that's what i've been referring to all this time lately when i use the phrase "delirium and drift"... it's not stupidity i've been referring to, but nihilism it seems. explains a lot. dostoevsky's use of the term now suddenly becomes rather disturbing in its 19th century russian context. either way, thank you. that was maybe somehow useful and somewhat insightful in helping me diagnose the surrounding world going clinically/criminally insane..

is that what a parallel machine economy in the context of IoT implies? i recall an year ago or so a looooong thread of IOTA bashing circle jerk here:) which did make sense at the time, of course & was packed with valuable information and references.

but an year has gone by since. and a lot of other things have come to light... would love to hear any non-plebbit "bitcoin maximalist" (or even "cryptocurrency") input/commentary (which is why i thought of sharing this here, i guess).

thought the notion of isolating and "revealing currencies as 'current-sees' as flows" via regex-like semantic parsers and other such components, and then assembling all kinds of composable abstractions from those really... brilliant & smth incredibly useful, should it be eventually implemented in such a chaotic DHT-verse as envisioned... thought i'd share, see what you guys might think about that..

AFAIK, all dPoS systems have so far proven to fairly quickly spiral into what you just described. Waves uses a leased PoS that might be worth exploring in more detail (or I've been meaning to anyway).

well, it's under the umbrella of IOHK, they particularly emphasize security, take a slow, deliberate and conservative approach to how they do things, in addition to this: https://callisto.network/

i don't find it all that surprising.

i also don't see ETH and ETC as being in competition. and i hold both as well. :)

i can see a scenario where some applications are housed by ETC and others by ETH. sky rocketing gas prices and transaction fees kinda defeat the purpose i'd say (for anybody other than speculators and miners), and given the network load sometimes, that would make a lot of sense until some working scalability solutions are in place.

didn't say i find anything all that interesting about Ethereum Classic. didn't jump in with the intention of promoting or defending a position either, but both responses following my post seem eager to shove things down my throat, not sure why.

but if you want to know what i find interesting far as ethereum apps go, i can list those: Augur, MakerDAO, DAOStack. those are examples of efforts that regardless of what goes down would not have been in vain and have already made significant contributions to the better understanding of things in their respective domains.

ETC, can't say so much about, they seem a little hush hush, but they recently did launch a complementary chain dedicated to smart contract security audits for both ETH and ETC (but paid for from their treasury), and i also think the proposed ERC-223 (by an ETC member) makes a lot of sense and personally hope that it does get approved to substitute the current ERC-20. overall, i just wouldn't disregard the efforts made.

and i think i'm more or less keeping my tone civil, no? too much to ask for the same? (directed at the person below, that)

and it's also supposed to be hashed in each "legitimate" transaction. while network resources are so scarce as to stir rampant speculation. idk - the only thing about EOS that i have noticed is how overtly it screams of greed. the people that jumped in on that bandwagon did so for no other reason but hoping it would make them rich (cos Daniel Larimer said "you can run Ethereum on a single EOS smart contract", lol).

Ethereum has the massive advantage of having nurtured a certain culture and community around it. that's why, regardless of all else, there is a list of really interesting experiments taking place on Ethereum and applications that could cement its future.

plenty of what you say is just not right (or plain wrong). btc = monetary/value transactions. i read the paper as early and 2008 and didn't miss out on it, i just didn't care then same as i don't care now. eth = dapps. just because dapps didn't take off immediately doesn't mean they aren't beginning to get used, increasingly so, and that there isn't a lot of valuable, useful, interesting and innovative applications being built and experimented with. btc and eth are two different things. if how much something can possibly enrich you is all you care about, that doesn't mean that everybody else is necessarily on that page. that being said, it's true - ethereum is basically useless for a lot of otherwise really interesting possible use cases and applications (which is why we got things like IOTA, something that i'm sure everybody here has nothing but hate towards, for whatever reasons). then ethereum classic, too, is something just as different. and i couldn't help but notice how most innovation is being done by people of russian or eastern european origin, or israelis, while the vast majority of silicon valley only chase the dollar bill and base their entire business models on how they can possibly screw the user. much as i sometimes find valuable threads here on hackernews, i don't really take much of what you people say seriously.