osswannabe

Disclaimer: dumb questions ahead.

Who is this project intended for? I was under the impression that browsers and Adobe products implement their own VG renderers (not client-side JS code provided by websites).

If that's correct, is this project trying to build a format that's better than SVG and parseable out-of-the-box by those renderers?

Or is it trying to get browsers/Adobe to extend their renderers to support TinyVG? If this is true and TinyVG isn't supported yet, how was the website able to render that Tiger picture?

Summary: for the first time ever, researchers were able to record whole-brain activity for all 302 neurons in a freely moving C. Elegans. Further, they found that the map of which neurons are physically connected to which neurons (i.e. the connectome) is way less significant than previously thought. Instead, extrasynaptic communication (i.e. neurons picking up neurotransmitters from neurons they don't share a synapse with) is suspected to be the name of the game. Also, the methods in the paper are applicable to whole brain imaging of other animals like fruit fly.

Personal opinion: theoretical neuroscientists are about to get a crapload of data to start building realistic, TESTABLE models of whole brain function in C. Elegans. We're about to see the stat mech of neuroscience people, this is HUGE.

For the first question, here are the features I thought would be beneficial to this brand new coin.

1) ASIC-resistant proof algorithm (like in ETH 2.0 iirc).

2) Fixed mining rewards. For example, offering 1 REcoin per mined block forever. The idea is to prevent the deflationary aspect of BTC.

3) Whole coin transactions (i.e. no buying/selling 0.0001 BTC) to simulate the capital range of real estate investments.

4) An ICO valuing each coin highly (e.g. $10k). The initial capital would be used to set up an insured exchange. The idea is to leverage the insurance to become the dominant USD/REcoin exchange, preventing a large exchange-established dark pool that trades fractional REcoins and threatens the coin's price stability.

For the second question, I think this coin is better than a treasury bond or index fund since it discourages trading and thereby emulates the illiquidity of RE. I've talked about why I think this illiquidity is important in another comment below. With respect to a bank account, I think this coin is far superior since it aims for a rate of return on the order of an RE asset (i.e. much higher than a traditional savings account).

I think the problem is bigger than that. Consider the NYC housing market. Even though there's almost no vacant real estate, rents are always rising due to the constant flipping of property. I say flipping since most of these purchases don't fundamentally improve the property in any meaningful way. Moreover, this continues despite the city having one of the highest capital gains tax rates in the US.

If investors had access to an alternative asset class that allowed them to realize decent YoY appreciation without undertaking risky construction, demand would cool down significantly. The end result (in the long run) would be sustainable property values and affordable housing for the middle class.

My thinking was that real estate's lack of volatility comes from its illiquid nature. You can't buy and sell property on whim so there's less chance of temporary events (e.g. Trump tweets, earnings call results) having an outsized impact on prices.

Similarly, regional market pricing would prevent pan-region price crashes arising from someone dumping a large number of coins in this illiquid market. However, the more I think about this, I think it's a non-issue if you have large enough demand for this coin and a lack of liquidity.

Of course this crypto wouldn't give you a physical asset (that's kind of the point). But if it were to be possible, maybe that 3-bedroom apartment wouldn't be so expensive...

This is something Netflix has been doing for a while. I think it's called adaptive bitrate streaming - the video quality automatically adapts to your network connection.