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45.79.77.250 6y ago

Show HN: Programming Challenge #1 from Jaekwon

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github.com 6y ago

Corona Virus Response by the People for the People

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Cosmos and Tendermint

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groups.google.com 8y ago

Let's fork Go, for a suitable blockchain & capabilities language

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github.com 8y ago

The Cosmos-SDK is a blockchain framework in Go

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github.com 8y ago

Like Protobuf3 but better – deterministic, upgradeable, fast, and compact

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github.com 8y ago

Show HN: Amino – Like Protobuf3 but Better – Designed for Blockchains

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www.coindesk.com 8y ago

Database Giant Oracle Wants Better Governance for Blockchains

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www.gop.gov 9y ago

Better Tax Laws for Startups' Employee Options is being Legislated

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blog.pebble.io 11y ago

On sidechains Bitcoin-maximalism and freedom

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: What's the more secure computing / mobile platform?

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github.com 12y ago

A very simple Go non-ORM

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coinmd.org 12y ago

Medical Advice for Bitcoins

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www.youtube.com 12y ago

Bitcoins: Liberating Organic Farmers

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www.technologyreview.com 12y ago

Diffbot Learns the New Shopping API

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www.youtube.com 13y ago

Drone Self Destructs in Florida

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kopimism.org 13y ago

Jan 13th (Sunday) 1pm, Oakland Sudoroom: Aaron Swartz and Kopimism

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kopimism.org 13y ago

Kopimism Hactivism Meetup Tomorrow (Sunday) in Oakland

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Awesome Kickstarter (Embedded) projects, expiring now, almost there

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www.amazon.com 14y ago

Amazon Career Choice Program

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

A Picture of Prototypes in Javascript.

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Tell HN: It's not P(you, us) > P(you)P(us)

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jaekwon.net 14y ago

Collapse Hacker News Comments (bookmarklet)

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: what's the legal status on Uber?

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ycatalyst.com 15y ago

YCatalyst is HackerNews in Node.js (Coffeescript/FOSS)

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duck.com 15y ago

Is google squatting?

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wordsquared.com 15y ago

Node.js powered MMO scrabble

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1amendment.com 15y ago

Show HN: quasi-solution to DNS seizures

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popbub.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Review my website

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main.startable.net 15y ago

SF CoFounder Search & Product Feedback, tomorrow (saturday) at 3pm

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Were half the presidents Freemasons? Is Trump a Freemason? Is the "center" of Freemasonry in London?

Either you understand these things, are you're naive and plugged into the matrix, or you're part of the many Agent Smith tribes.

I'm not schizo, but "take your meds" is sort of a last resort of shills, so, get vaxxed.

For the readers; accusing others of a mental disorder for connecting the dots regarding a global conspiracy, after covid19 (which was created by ecohealth alliance), after recent research shows that the vaccine causes heart problems and overall increased mortality; generally means they are in on the conspiracy.

-- copy pasted from another thread, re "connections that aren't there"

Did he get into vaccines for the express purpose of population control? (see his TED talk)

Did he fly on Lolita express?

Did he fund the WHO which mandated vaccines?

Is he the son of a prominent eugenicist who was on the board of planned parenthood?

You tell me.

Did he get into vaccines for the express purpose of population control? (see his TED talk)

Did he fly on Lolita express?

Did he fund the WHO which mandated vaccines?

Is he the son of a prominent eugenicist who was on the board of planned parenthood?

Is he as rich as Bill Gates?

You tell me. What is the point you're trying to make?

Ben West is cited in an article linked to from the OP article. He was hacking on that pump for the longest time since 2006 when I was living with him, and what do you know, he caused a movement.

Also check out Anthony Di Franco's open insulin project.

Lightning is one way.

There are some issues with capital lockup costs, so other level-2 scaling solutions are also required. There's been more discussion of a Bitcoin bridge for Cosmos, as well as Ethereum. Tendermint sidechains is what crypto needs. Tezos recently announced plans Tendermint adoption, as well as Binance w/ the Cosmos SDK.

Disclaimer, I'm a longtime lurker & cofounder of Tendermint/Cosmos. Cosmos is coming.

Zooko's triangle: Human-meaningful, Secure, Decentralized.

Tendermint provides BFT security in the likes of Bitcoin proof-of-work, except without the mining. It allows for massively replicated public decentralized databases. (e.g. BFT as opposed to Raft's FT). The Tendermint algorithm guarantees that as long as less than 1/3 are malicious, the blockchain will continue to function very well. And if there ever is a double-spend attack, we can figure out who to blame (and it will necessarily be 1/3 of bonded stakeholders).

The human-readable part is relatively simple. You can easily program a name-resolution system using the Cosmos SDK. Using the KVStore implementation there, you can commit the value of a name in the Merkle tree, and get a Merkle proof all the way up to the block-hash. And the block-hash is signed by 2/3 of the validator-set by voting power.

There's more to it than that, but that's the gist of it. Now we can really, really securely know that a name resolves to a certain IP, and know that it would be extremely expensive to attack this system.

NameCoin almost solved it but you need something like this to keep persistent state and provide Merkle proofs: https://github.com/tendermint/iavl . You can with the simple Bitcoin UTXO Merkle tree, but then you can't provide fast updates or revocation easily.

p.s. anyone know why my parent post is getting downvoted? goes up and down, up and down ;)

While many of the technologies I'd use already exist, rebuilding the web around blockchains and onion routing would require a revolution in user interface design to have a chance; otherwise it will be a playground for the technology elite

We've been working on proof-of-stake and blockchain scaling/interoperability infrastructure since 2014. It all starts with a classical BFT algorithm which provides simple light-client proofs and fork-accountability. Your mobile phone can verify transaction finality in 5 seconds, with no need for an hour of block confirmations as in Bitcoin proof-of-work mining.

  https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint <-- blockchain consensus engine
  https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk     <-- blockchain framework in Go
  https://github.com/keppel/lotion         <-- blockchain framework in JS
  https://github.com/cosmos/voyager        <-- blockchain explorer
  https://github.com/tendermint/go-amino   <-- blockchain codec derived from Proto3
  https://cosmos.network
  https://tendermint.com
The Cosmos Hub will launch very soon. Lets build stuff! Onion routing for Tendermint would be a great addition. And DNS/name-resolution on Tendermint can actually solve Zooko's triangle.

While we're at it, lets fork Go too. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/e-lang/cQiXS_GnKS4/Zsk...

Disclaimer: I'm a cofounder of the Cosmos project, cofounder of Tendermint, and long-time HN lurker.

Cosmos - "the universe seen as a well-ordered whole"

Given the nature of the word, I it think fits the Cosmos Network pretty well, as blockchains are mostly about consensus around ordering. And Cosmos IBC provides a kind of partial-but-sufficient ordering around the Cosmos Hub.

But maybe it'll all run on a CosmosOS, and be integrated with the Cosmos react system.

What a load of manure.

No-one should have to break the law to bootstrap a crypto network with likeminded people. We reserve the freedom to associate.

Tendermint 0.10.2 9 years ago

Yes, there were many designs.

I don't know of anyone who really applied traditional BFT networks into public blockchain architecture, however, until Tendermint.

For example, who spoke or wrote of BFT fault accountability/attribution, and how it pertains to proof-of-stake models, before Tendermint?

There was also the 2011 paper that lamented the lack of good open-source middleware for BFT algos. Tendermint solves that engineering problem as well.

Tendermint 0.10.2 9 years ago

Tendermint works great for 4 to 300 validators, and with the Cosmos delegation model, many more stakers can participate. So yes, it's not a trivial problem, but Tendermint is solving it.

Tendermint 0.10.2 9 years ago

Private networks could grow to become public. It would be nice to be able to use the same system for scaling from 4 to 10B.

Private blockchains are incentivized to adopt public blockchain architectures because public blockchains are most economically vetted.

Tendermint 0.10.2 9 years ago

Tendermint is hiring.

We have a hubs in Toronto and Berlin, and we're building one out in the Bay Area.

If you have what it takes to design and implement protocol standards for the blockchain/cryptocurrency industry, reach out. We want to hire you!

If you have significant open-source software development experience in distributed systems design, operating systems design, database systems design, or language design, reach out. We want to hire you!

We're redefining the definition of money while we build our future's financial infrastructure.

email: careers@tendermint.com

No, a transaction here is referring to a transaction. The block reward on Bitcoin is already 12.5BTC is 12.5 × $4000+. That incentives the expenditure of significantly more energy than $20 worth.

Incorrect. Bitcoin isn't "backed by electricity". You can't turn Bitcoin back into energy. The energy is used to secure a distributed ledger to prevent double spend attacks on ongoing transactions, in a really inefficient way, but don't call it "backing".

PoS will succeed. It already has, we've set all the pieces. The thing is, you don't want to live in a world where Bitcoin and PoW dominate our financial transactions. That world is not livable.

Bitcoin transactions are secured by spent electricity. PoS transactions are secured by cryptographic signature schemes and reputation of operational security. It's how the world already functions, just more replicated.

Re dependencies:

Glide takes our team 90% of the way, but is a bit glitchy (need to wipe ~/.glide sometimes) & lacks a command for `npm link` type functionality.