AdrianEGraphene

It's wild how people write without version control... Maybe I'm missing something.

It's a phone number. It's probably been bought / sold a few times already. Unless you're on the level of Edward Snowden, I wouldn't worry about it. But maybe your sense of privacy is more valuable than the outcome you'd get from Claude. That's fine too.

Thanks for reminding me of why I shy away from Swift and dove into the arms of Kotlin Multiplatform.

Pretty sweet site, thx for sharing. Hope y'all will start bringing token count up at some point. Will be testing this newer version too.

I hope you don't delete it! I enjoyed reading it. It pleased my confirmation bias, anyways. Your comment might help someone notice patterns that they've been glancing over.... I liked it up until the T&S part. My eyes glazed over the rest since I didn't know what T&S means. But that's just me.

cool personal site. nice & to the point. Yea, I thought you would have gotten used to seeing elements of yourself on the web, but I guess there's levels to notoriety.

This is the norm for a few good reasons.

Can you please explain why it would be preferable to have large companies paying x cents per notification to Apple, and not to users?

I don't understand the credit part? Wouldn't some kind of "set your rate" option for the user, allow more individual flexibility? As opposed to a flat fee per notif, sent to Apple?

The product isn't necessarily true (mobile -> landline push), but the profit-seeking is certainly expected, as it is for all businesses. While the amount of minutes & attentions that are generated from spam calls helps the telcos, because they get paid either way... that doesn't mean they're negligent. They just don't have the right tools to police this since they're common carriers. Things are changing little by little and with upcoming changes in telco infrastructure, I expect Q4 this year to show a strong signal of what the future holds.

Neat. Sounds like I gotta explore what's available there now. The parent comment's issue sounds like a pretty good feature to add to an app... thx.

Learning this term was required to move on to the next belts in my Taekwondo classes, thought it was a South Korean thing, but I guess not. I've only ever heared of Filial Piety a few times out of that environment.

I hope this sentiment becomes more normalized over time :)

Wow, ok. I've been hit with this issues twice and both times, the Twilio reps failed to let me know about this. I had previously resorted to just turning off any counties. Looks like mu international app users might get functionality back.... if this feature is still live.

You could get a full time assistant for less than $12k/year.[1] Not sure if they work with individuals, but I've used them for my startup.

I'm sure you'd be able to use this.

Not sure if it's dishonesty rather than just wise resource planning?

[1] https://wingassistant.com/

You're describing one of the solutions made by Ironport, "Bonded Sender". Their solutions were sold to Return Path and Cisco later bought them out, presumably with the bonded sended solution still belonging to Return Path? [1,2]

I've never seen discussion of this in the mainstream though... so I'm not sure if it's actually being used or just shelved.

At this point, I think any proprietary they've created is game for usage. But it's very hard to get multiple large organizations to adopt this.

I definitely think it's a solution.

[1] https://archive.ph/CH98s [2] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2548788/cisco-to-acqui...

I see you still have working feet for the trackpoint keyboard... I've broken the foot on 3 of those.... any secrets you've got to preventing that?

AFAIK, there are no permissionless payment rail that do fiat-> crypto payment processing. They all require intermediaries and presumably would run into similar issues.

Crypto-> crypto would be a different story, but requires a more sophisticated buyer.

I play in this space, so would definitely like to hear what you've got in mind.

KarmaCall was built on nano and so was FynCom. Building apps without tokens removes the speculation [ and the volume of activity associated with it :( ] and lets you focus on your core business models.

At a recent online event, I was asked to talk "what is the riskiest thing about building on crypto". The answer I gave was "it can distract you from your core business model, from making your customers happy".

EDIT: I echo your sentiment though. I wrote something supporting your thoughts (I think?) a while ago. Do you think this is a similar sentiment? [1] [1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/using-crypto-tool-investment-...

Colored coins is one of my #1 favorite topics! The same issue (high fees) that plagued ETH would soon arise if doing "Colored Coins" for NFTs on BTC. Regardless, this could certainly be done. Colored coins was actually one of the 1st concepts that seriously drew my interest to this space.

One might think Lightning Network would be a good solution, but LN is fungible, so that wouldn't work.

Still, colored coins is an awesome concept and I'm planning to help with at least 1 use-case (fingers crossed!) in the next few months.

Seems like we missed the boat on that a while ago.

Spent my PhD on this and can confirm. Tour's brilliant. Part of his brilliance is in leveraging hot topics to secure funding, increase his status as an expert, and ultimately give young minds the chance to push the field of carbon study forward. Academics have to play the game.

It is not technically graphene due to the multicrysal + variable layer formation. You can search my user name in google scholar to see my publications.

Really not sure what's going on there. Tempted to chalk it up to a funny coincidence, but it doesn't seem like it.

I'd chalk it up to an app on your phone tbh. Android is particularly susceptible to this if you have READ_CALL_LOG permission on for some apps.

I can't say this for lightning or bitcoin, but a similar question was asked of nano.[1]

When I checked the numbers, it was 4% cheaper, but the convenience factor wasn't there.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/nanocurrency/comments/nuz7f8/nano_a...

Wow! I don't blame today's students. The virtual environment would not be what one expects when dedicating their life to schooling.

I see a few answers here touting the use of a fee and I couldn't help but ask for feedback on my in-production solution with a few thousand users. It uses a refundable $0.05 fee, which is refunded if a call lasts more than 25 seconds. [1]

A business model we're pursuing is to let legitimate callers pay willing recipients $/min according to the recipients predetermined rate. [2] I'd love more users/feedback/customers. iOS is in the works for Summer 2021.

[1] https://karmacall.com/

[2] https://thecompanybrief.com/briefs/rhntb

A shared prosperity micropayments solution is entirely possible. I am testing one version of this in regards to phone spam.[1] Your bigger picture is what I am addressing with my micropayments as a service platform.[2] We are relatively now & still creating our path, but I just wanted you to know that there are people working on micropayments solution as an alternative to the traditional ad model.

[1] https://myrobocash.com

[2] https://fyncom.com

Yes, it's a bigger problem in these countries, [1] potentially because of the use of multi-country languages spoken by massive numbers of people.

Re: if really you'd want (and could have) something that does the job better.

I'd argue that nothing is better than blockchain in terms of dealing with monetary policy in each country. Since this solution is 100% targeted at the economic incentives that drive phone spam, the reward must be a financial incentive that is easy to globally implement and furthermore allow a user to easily transact with, regardless of country. P2P currencies means someone else in whatever country can worry about designing services that take/use Nano, while I focus on blocking phone spam and don't get wrapped up in potential race/optimization conditions in using "funny money". /rant

Doesn't mean this is a killer app, just as you said, 1 way of trying to solve this 30 year old problem that will only get worse over time as the Internet of Things matures.

[1] https://truecaller.blog/2019/12/03/truecaller-insights-top-2...

Yes, I took great inspiration from HashCash and Proof of Work in general.

Re: minus the refundability

The refundability is the main thing that allowed us to patent this. HashCash, and the large PoW required by Bitcoin are meant to strain any attempt to transact on the respective network. Ours only strains bad callers (monetarily) and does not strain good callers.

The argument we presented was that good/bad callers can be simplified as calls that lasts more/less than some time threshold.

Simple, user-friendly, intuitive, and serves the purpose of disincentivizing high volume spam calls while giving legit unknown callers a chance to bypass the blind filter.

I use blockchain to pay people to block phone spam.[1] It's also the subject of my patented algorithm on killing phone spam by requiring a refundable cash deposit for non-contacts phone calls. [2] I wrote a short white paper on this theory too. [3]

[1] https://myrobocash.com/ [2] https://uspto.report/patent/app/20200304647 [3] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c1GyiVVZFDiUuxWkBCQ63qLdJgP...

You're right on the money, economic incentives drives spam in phone calls. As IoT expands, so will spam. Collectively, we can all sit behind refundable MicroPayWalls. Contacts call free. Non-contacts are ignored unless they deposit $0.05. They get a refund if the call time is more than 25s. If the call time is less than 25s, you keep their deposit. [1]

This RoboCash app does exactly that, and it pays you for each call you block as an added bonus. [2]

STIR/SHAKEN is a partial solution that doesn't go far enough to solve the problem.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c1GyiVVZFDiUuxWkBCQ63qLdJgP...

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fyncom.rob...

Disclaimer: I made the app and wrote the white paper.