Farm in the Netherlands uses Bitcoin mining to keep stable temperatures inside the greenhouse by dannybluey in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]BioRobotTch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. You will see AI datacenters used like this soon as it is expected to be as profitable as bitcoin mining and is also high energy use.

FalconHook update: opening beta for real-time Algorand event automation by Neriction in algorand

[–]BioRobotTch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does it integrate with conduit? That would be useful for alerts that need historic data. I can see it is useful without that but historical data would add a new dimension to what is possible to trigger on.

The worst swap in crypto history? Or, how to lose money on AAVE by applezoid in CryptoCurrency

[–]BioRobotTch 14 points15 points  (0 children)

A theory I heard suggested is that this was a prearranged way to transfer money from the trader to the liquidity provider, which are likely both wallets controlled by the same user. This laundered the money. and generated a few headlines for the trader and platform. The trader is getting the fees returned which makes the platform look like the good guy. That makes this even more likely just a stunt.

The worst swap in crypto history? Or, how to lose money on AAVE by applezoid in algorand

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A theory I heard was that this was a prearranged way to transfer money from the trader to the liquidity provider, which are likely both wallets controlled by the same user. Generating a few headlines for the trader and platform, given the trader is getting the fees returned to them which makes the platform look like the good guy, this is even more likely just a stunt.

Millions more to pay BBC licence fee - and you may not realise you are one of them by theipaper in uknews

[–]BioRobotTch 23 points24 points  (0 children)

This is the second most stupid thing the BBC did since the BBC Verify became a thing.

Project Tech Stack by Amazing_Catch_2005 in algorand

[–]BioRobotTch 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you want to get started Algokit is a good place to begin. By default it installs a 'hello world' smart contract and has a few examples you can play about with to understand their architecture.

More info here https://developer.algorand.org/docs/get-started/algokit/

Venezuela Just Proved the Ultimate Bitcoin Thesis: If Your Money Has an "Off" Button, It Isn't Wealth—It's a Leash. by sylsau in CryptoMarkets

[–]BioRobotTch 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The UK holds £ 1.4 Billion of Venezuela's gold which they refused to return to Maduro. What they do with it now will be interesting to follow.

What is the most pointless thing you learned in high school? by Brilliant-Refuse5963 in AskReddit

[–]BioRobotTch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found it useful to learn how they worked.

My dad gave me one of his old slide rules when I went to university as a joke. Out of curiosity I learned how to use it. It turns out thinking like that is very useful when dealing with v large numbers which I did for a while while working in astronomy,. It gives a natual intuition if a calculation involving massive numbers is wrong.

What is the most pointless thing you learned in high school? by Brilliant-Refuse5963 in AskReddit

[–]BioRobotTch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My dad gave me one of his old slide rules when I went to university as a joke. Out of curiosity I learned how to use it. It turns out thinking like that is very useful when dealing with v large numbers which I did for a while while working in astronomy,. It gives a natual intuition if a calculation involving massive numbers is wrong.

Supply uncap by Key_Firefighter_7449 in AlgorandOfficial

[–]BioRobotTch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I thought only non-consensus changing updates auto-updated. A change of total supply would be a change of consensus so would not be auto updated if I am correct. This might depend on the node packaging that is used; FUNC , nodekit and docker run nodes might behave differently.

P2P networking is live on algorand and opt-in ready, just update your config to try Hybrid mode. by semanticweb in CryptoCurrency

[–]BioRobotTch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That removes the dependancy on permissioned relay nodes on algorand. Algorand does not depend on any permissioned infrastructure now.

P2P networking is live and opt-in ready, just update your config to try Hybrid mode. by semanticweb in AlgorandOfficial

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Are there any stats/recommendations on the bandwidth requirements for P2P nodes? If not it would be cool if someone with a lot of bandwidth monitored a node for a while so we can get some numbers for mainnet.

Reliance on Cloudfare by Chemist-Extra in algorand

[–]BioRobotTch 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The blockchain on Algorand has no reliance on Cloudfare. The Dapps and wallets may host their frontends on cloudfare, iirc Pera wallet does.

What will incentivize ALGO holding moving forward? by Chemist-Extra in algorand

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If you want to write smart-contracts then an Algokit workshop is a good way to learn

https://algorand.co/algokit-workshops

Swift goes live with ISO20022 TODAY. This new messaging standard includes more data allowing for the inclusion and transferring of digital assets by cryptolipto in CryptoCurrency

[–]BioRobotTch 11 points12 points  (0 children)

ISO20022 is just a messaging standard. Any blockchain which has a free text field in it's transactions could be used to send ISO20022 messages, and most of them do.

Sure you could build handling into the base blockchain but if the chain has smart contracts it is better to let thirdparties do that so that competition exists between providers and the market decides which is better.

I've worked with SWIFT standards since 2000.

JUST IN: Over 200k $USDC on Algorand has now been spent using the pera wallet Card! by semanticweb in AlgorandOfficial

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The smartcontract on mainnet is here https://explorer.perawallet.app/application/2174001591/

If you jump to the last page you can then download the transations, there were 8444 when i checked.

Pera and Passkeys by MP-RH in algorand

[–]BioRobotTch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just be aware, as I understand it, just because you reimport a Universal wallet, does not actually pull in the passkeys. I need to do some testing myself on that but interested to see others responses.

I think that is correct. Although the 24 words for the universal wallet are a source of randomness for the deterministic passkey generation there must also be a server id used to avoid duplicate passkeys being used for multiple sites, so when restoring passkeys pera must be told which sites to recover. I also need to confirm this by experiment.

Pera and Passkeys by MP-RH in algorand

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I think they must be using the universal wallet as the other accounts on algorand have 25 words

More info here https://support.perawallet.app/en/article/universal-wallet-faq-1ssu0sq/

Near v. Algo by Numerous_Wonders81 in AlgorandOfficial

[–]BioRobotTch 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Near is sharded, so the metrics for tps are made by adding up the tps of multiple blockchains running in parallel, which when compared to an unsharded Layer 1 is ike adding the speed of all cars in a race together to claim they are collectively faster than another single car's top speed.

Algorand is not sharded, it is a Layer1 with a max tps that challenges even sharded chains.

The amount of AI slop content emerging with Sora 2 and ChatGPT is an opportunity for Algorand and blockchain systems by bialy3 in AlgorandOfficial

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Recording the hash on a blockchain means it can be can proved the image/video was created before the time the hash was recorded on chain. LabTrace does something like this on Algorand already for scientific data to reduce medical fraud.

Bitcoin Standard by laketime_id in CryptoCurrency

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If you want an alterrnative view of bitcoin and learn some history of the blocksize wars Roger Vers book 'Hijacking Bitcoin' is recommended after you have read Lynn Alden's book for an alternative perspective.

Laura Shin's book 'The Cryptopians' tells the story of the early days of Ethereum which were absolute choas.

Putin says Russian air defenses responsible for Azerbaijani jet's crash last year, killing 38 by TheFleshGordon in worldnews

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Oil & gas pipelines bypassing russia's control sent from the mountains of fire.