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There are factions within crypto, some think the "end of history" looks like crypto replacing centralized systems. others (like myself) think those systems are complements and simply alternatives in the marketplace.

As to being adversarial... ICANN was allocated 1.2% of the total HNS supply, and all existing TLD owners (at the time of the snapshot) can claim their TLDs on chain. The icann allocation is 5.8% of the current circulating supply.

i suppose there could have been a way to give ICANN a blank check to modify the handshake namespace in perpetuity, but i suspect that might either be technically unworkable or just made the whole venture pointless.

coinbase is to namebase

as bitcoin is to handshake

the context for that comment is that handshake took a snapshot of the icann namespace. so any names icann adds or changes after the fact will conflict with the HNS namespace.

yeah. right now it's ~$0 since there's no fee competition, but as soon as the total names registered gets close to the limit (66 million) then the cost of renewall will go up and it will be costly to squat. there are 1.85 million names registered currently.

total number of names "total", not total number per wallet

the way handshake addresses this problem is putting a cap on the total number of names that can be registered, and then users compete on fees in order to get their transaction mined to renew the name

I use it, and own a small portfolio of names on chain. "base" and "faq" are a couple of them. It's been pretty interesting to watch the ecosystem mature.

Just recently a small dev team released a desktop app that syncs name data to your local device and lets you browse sites with lookups to the handshake root before falling back to icann root https://impervious.com/fingertip.html

There are a few blockchain based solutions to this problem.

- Handshake

- ENS

- Namecoin

My favorite so far is Handshake - a fork of the bitcoin protocol with added support for covenants, which is how arbitrary names can be registered and associated with some 512 bytes of data. Example: https://hnsnetwork.com/names/proofofconcept which shows TXT and other records. ENS was previously my favorite, but the root protocol is secured by only a 7 person multisig. Namecoin is old and poorly designed in my opinion.

you only need hns.to if you haven't set up your system to resolve handshake names directly, or (theoretically) use a browser that has support baked in.

It's on Brave Browser's roadmap to resolve handshake DNS directly.

The true cost of any product is the project lifecycle cost. There are many cases where a serverless architecture would cut down on that.

thank you for making this public, even though it may not be perfect.

Can you go into a little more detail about who owns the bank account that users are depositing into when they use sparkswap?

It depends on how you interpret your jurisdiction's tax laws. in the united states there are some tax professionals that would count airdrops as taxable, and others that wouldn't if you never plan to claim the airdrop.

This is why anyone trading digital assets should use a tax tracker to understand the implications of each trade before they make it. I've spent some time building software for exactly this (https://cryptotax.tools).

I actually disagree with this. As someone who uses linux as the primary build OS for my software projects, i need to know just enough to make things work but I don't necessarily want to be an uber linux expert. This results in me constantly googling "command for <XYZ> ubuntu", which usually lands me on a stackoverflow page with something that points me in the right direction. Now, i'm not saying a linux example commands website will be successful for my anecdotal reason, but i have to imagine there are many more devs just like me.

This sounds like Blockstack. They've been in production with this for at least a year now.

I think the line of reasoning here is that money == speech

you extract value from fat protocols by owning part of the protocol itself, then influencing the direction of the development by being part of the community.

Hey, I didn't see an email in your profile, want to add it?

Yeah, I tried doing this as well. But you're right, the spread on the arbitrage pretty much vanishes as soon as you try to do any kind of significant volume. I suspect my trading pair was "too" liquid. This could possibly be a viable option for coins that don't see a lot of volume. Or, maybe for a short period after a new coin is added to an exchange and there's a period of high volatility.

Looks great! Might want to double check US regs. As I understand it, businesses that accept crypto from person A and transmit it to person B are considered "money transmitters" in the United States https://www.fincen.gov/resources/statutes-regulations/guidan...

Agreed.

You mind find the "startup mechanics" video from YC's startup school 2017 pretty interesting. The case is made that resolving disputes in Delaware (by being incorporated in Delaware) is greatly preferred to any other state (CA for example).

I found this project the other day after doing a deep dive into the 0x project. This is a cool project and I am impressed with the level of thought and detail gone into planning this protocol. I have a question about governance. The 0x project essentially plans to set up a DAO that will promote/depricate old/new versions of their protocol, and stakeholders will have a say using the 0x protocol token. How do you plan to implement governance? Through some sort of token model similar to 0x? Thanks!

Do you have a source for this?

I created an blockchain education site: https://coursefriend.com/

I'm also working on a more general discussion / Q&A site for blockchain/decentralization topics that will launch soon. I am trying to scratch my own itch of wanting more interesting and informed online discussion/news on dApps and decentralized protocols. This stuff can be hard to grok so finding a good community is important.

Awesome, I also made a sub because I didn't see anything out there focused on more technical dev type stuff https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockchainDevs/

Ethereum and Monero are good examples of protocols that are different from the Bitcoin protocol.

Found a great description:

'What can we do with a SNARKs-enabled Ethereum? Certain contract variables can be effectively made private. Instead of storing the secret information on-chain, it can be stored with users, who prove they’re behaving by the rules of the contract using SNARKs. Each of these uses require their own trusted setup, but once a circuit exists, it can be easily cloned. Imagine an ERC20-like token that doesn’t publish individual holders’ balances, while still maintaining a public and predictable token supply, or a lending platform that keeps the terms of a loan private.'

https://decentralize.today/zero-knowledge-proofs-zcash-and-e...

What does this add that didn't exist before? Some here are stating that it will allow you to send anonymous transactions in Ethereum, but the post clearly states that "There is a new tool in the toolbox, but for now Ethereum transactions are no more private than before." So what's the point? Is this just a building block for future features around transaction privacy?