cloudhead

We’re working on this at https://radicle.xyz — a blockchain isn’t needed

Thanks!

Radicle | Senior Software Eng. | Full-time | Remote (UTC) | https://radicle.xyz

We’re a small, well funded team working on a sovereign, peer to peer code forge. Think GitHub, but decentralized.

We’re looking for experienced software engineers who can work in Rust, and are very familiar with at least one of:

* CRDTs

* Networking protocols

* Git internals

* Public key cryptography

* Software supply chain security

* Peer-to-peer systems

The work is very challenging and requires a creative problem-solving mindset and good communication skills.

Email cloudhead@radicle.xyz if you’re interested, making sure to include relevant experience and code, and why you think you would be a good fit for the role.

Thanks!

This is great! Would be nice if it didn’t include sites with paywalls as an option.

I mostly think in private, though I code in public. The reason is simple: packaging my thoughts for the public takes a lot of extra time that I'd prefer to spend realizing my ideas. If I need feedback on ideas, I'll bounce it on the handful of people I know and whose opinion I respect.

Radicle | Technical Lead | REMOTE | Full-Time

We're building software and protocols for secure, decentralized code-collaboration. Think GitHub, but peer-to-peer.

We work in Rust and in the open. Looking for an experienced software engineer with 10+ years in systems programming and experience in distributed systems, networking, storage, and the ability to lead a small team.

Salary range is $150K-$250K/year. If interested, drop us a line at work@radicle.foundation

How is the sun so hot then?

Gosh, it's not that complicated. They're just asking if the product is company-owned or community-owned. That's the distinction between web 2 and 3; just like the distinction between web 1 and 2 was whether the content was authored by the company or the community; cf. encyclopedia britannica vs. wikipedia.

And yes, you can't just go from one to the other, it's a completely different way of running a product.

All distributed databases are designed to "always be up", that's the point of making them distributed, otherwise a single instance is fine.

Neither is Bitcoin? What are you talking about?

Why would anyone use this?

Yes.

Radicle | REMOTE | Full-time/part-time | https://radicle.foundation

We have some great opportunities to work fully in the open on a new stack for code collaboration, built on p2p technology. Frontend (Svelte + TypeScript) or backend (Rust).

The Radicle Foundation is a Swiss-based entity that funds the development of the Radicle network.

We're looking for highly independent people. More info here: https://radicle.foundation/join/

Crypto hasn’t become anything. It’s a technology like any other, that can be used for good or bad. If you don’t see potential in the tech, fine. If you do, then what other people are doing shouldn’t matter.

For Rx[0] I built a custom GUI using opengl and Luminance[1]. I'm very happy with the results and would do it again if I had the chance. I'm a Linux user, and there is no acceptable GUI framework to may taste on Linux, so this was the only option that:

* Has minimal dependencies

* Looks and works the same on all platforms

* Performs well and gives me the control I need

[0]: https://rx.cloudhead.io/

[1]: https://github.com/phaazon/luminance-rs

Yes, otherwise known as optimism ;)

This is basically really good news for bitcoin, since China will no longer source the majority of hashing power. It’s an opportunity to further decentralize hashing power across the globe, and for the west to take a stronger foothold.

At these levels, not much. Bitcoin’s security is still rock solid and pulling off an attack is still incredibly expensive. For those who are still mining, ie. the rest of the world, mining will be more profitable until the Chinese hashing power migrates to a different country.

Yes, for those still mining, this is great!

Radicle | Remote Only | Flexible | https://radicle.xyz

Looking for full-stack senior devs with javascript and Ethereum experience to work on our p2p code collaboration stack.

There are a couple answers to this question, but the truth is we have ~100 years to figure this out, and the world will be a very different place then.

When this becomes an actual problem (it isn’t yet), the lightning network is ready to handle that kind of throughout.

I'm not sure why you would compare Visa with Bitcoin, unless you had no idea what you were talking about.. Visa does not enable one to transact without the rest of the banking system. It's useless on its own. Really pointless point of reference.

Yup, you're right. The "store of value" aspect only accounts for the price minus the premium, and the premium is typically large, especially on vintage watches.

Not all jewelery has a huge markup over the metal weight. If you buy a gold watch, you can always get its gold value back. Same with stones.

Gold's inherent value represents less than 1% of its total value. The rest is monetary premium. Bitcoin is 100% monetary premium, ie. inter-subjective value.

Another thing to consider is that people buy gold jewellery as a store of value. You don't spend $30k on a watch if you don't think it will keep its value.

Curious to know what would invalidate your current belief? It seems like half a trillion dollars in economic value is not convincing enough. So what is?

Large amounts of energy used is not the same as environmental impact. There is evidence of the former, but not the latter.

He’s talking about the software layer, not the protocol layer.

This guy has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about unfortunately. There is no evidence of any environmental impact.