mandelliant

Just published a new, in-depth look at the mechanics and economics of the Ethereum network's upcoming Merge event.

NATS streaming was definitely neat. And thanks for sharing your video, always looking for new distributed database resources.

Thanks for the recommendation. I'm actually reading the biography of Turing at the moment, so that sounds like a perfect follow-up.

Damn I miss Google Wave

That's an awesome fact! I'm reading Von Neumann & Morgenstern's Game Theory and Economic Behavior now and while I'm not surprised he's gifted in other disciplines, it's amazing that someone can be so deep in so many fields.

Will fly to London for this

Really cool, quick way to get a general overview of a hashtag's performance and engagement levels. If you're not already using a social platform like Sprout Social that gives you a keyword analysis, this is a good way to audit the conversations around your business/brand.

I like the contributors section- getting a sense of the influencers and participants in a given conversation can be useful.

Not entirely sure that the full reports are worth purchasing though. If anyone who has purchased one could share it's impact, I'd be eager to learn.

Thanks for this, I'm planning on watching Bram's talk but haven't had the time just yet. It's definitely an interesting idea, so I'm eager to see how it plays out.

Yeah, same. Competing with Bitcoin is a tall order, but Bram is a pretty smart guy so there's definitely a lot of potential here. Thanks to dpiers for the description below, too!

The storage based blockchains don't use storage space as a means of verification- they're storage product focused (you buy/rent/use/sell storage space on the platform as a commodity). That's not what Chia does; it seems like its primary use will be store of value/transactions like Bitcoin. It's the "green" alternative to BTC- I wouldn't call Filecoin, Storj, Sia, Maidsafe, etc. competitors to Bitcoin (and I don't think they're trying to be that).

While Lisk, Nav, Dash, etc do use alternatives to proof of work, what Chia is doing, from my understanding of what they're saying, is using the lowest cost alternative to proof of work, which is proof of storage (disclaimer, I don't know the math behind proof of storage, just that it's their alternative to PoW). However, proof of storage alone has some inherent vulnerabilities so they compensate with another mechanism, proof of time (again, not sure of the math).

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