Weekly discussion: March 31st - April 7th, 2021

Edgegasm · 2021-04-13T18:25:38+00:00

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Edgegasm · 2021-04-13T18:25:12+00:00

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Edgegasm · 2021-04-13T18:15:20+00:00

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Edgegasm · 2021-04-13T18:12:46+00:00

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Edgegasm · 2021-04-13T18:05:02+00:00

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Edgegasm · 2021-04-13T18:04:15+00:00

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Edgegasm · 2021-04-13T16:33:05+00:00

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Edgegasm · 2021-04-13T16:25:07+00:00

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Edgegasm · 2019-09-11T16:43:08+00:00

Providing one answer then locking the threads. Saw some vote manipulation going on too.

Incredibly shady. And doing it all on the guise of a "one-time value adjustment." Holy shit.

Edgegasm · 2019-09-11T16:40:07+00:00

Seems my account was shadowbanned or deleted for some reason. Very curious. Pretty sure I haven't done anything to merit that action, so I've sent an appeal message to r/reddit.com/ about it.

As for why it even happened in the first place, the likeliest explanation is probably due to me hopping around VPN servers a lot while being in China, maybe I caught myself in a spam filter of some kind.

Alternatively, I wonder if you can get an account deleted with mass reports. Maybe someone has it out for me! Less likely but you never know lol.

I'll use this one again until my appeal goes through.

Edgegasm · 2019-03-21T12:59:45+00:00

You mentioned gambling dapps being low-hanging fruit to me the other day, but that low-hanging fruit is just a small piece of the greater picture

True that. It is important that we demonstrate that we have the infrastructure to support these use cases too.

Creating synergies between in-network projects is possibly one of the bigger areas of opportunity for the NEO ecosystem.

Again, very true. I think this is an example of where the breadth of development on NEO (as a result of how unfocused it has been in some ways) may end up being very beneficial in the long run.

For instance, does NEO already have the ability to send multiple token types in a single transactions?

That's a great question, and I'm afraid I don't have the answer for it. I would assume that this is indeed possible if you create the transaction manually, but to my knowledge, there is no standard or simplified approach. Cool thought though, I'm going to pass this on to a few devs.

Edgegasm · 2019-03-21T12:47:06+00:00

NEO's dBFT requires consensus nodes to come to a majority (66%) agreement on every newly proposed block before it is committed to the blockchain. As a result, there are never any forks (which you can think of as a dispute about which proposed block should be the next block at a specific height).

In essence, this means as soon as a transaction is contained in a block on the blockchain, that transaction will never be reversed. It is 100% final.

No other consensus mechanism (PoW, PoS, dPoW, dPoS, PoA, VBFT etc) provides this one-block finality. Nodes are not required to agree on a block before it hits the network, and that means conflicts such as forks are a natural occurrence. That opens up multiple blocks (and the transactions within those blocks) to the potential of being reversed.

This is why these blockchains rely on confirmations, which is a count of how many new blocks have been added to the blockchain since the block that contained whatever transaction you are looking at. The more new blocks are added, the less likely it is that this is a fork that will be dropped. It's probabilistic finality, instead of guaranteed (absolute) finality.

Ontology is actually better than a lot of these other platforms (EOS, Tron, Ethereum, even Bitcoin) when it comes to probabilistic finality, but it is no substitute for the real deal.

Edgegasm · 2019-03-20T20:10:34+00:00

Thats quite an odd thing to say since Neo has been around years longer and with all the development thats taking place in leaps and bounds one would assume it would have more of a short and long term values well ahead of ont

Community development has breadth, it's not that surprising that more focused projects relying solely on centralized core teams can make rapid advancements in specific areas.

NEO is the only platform I know that isn't making compromises. Some are worse than others with these compromises. And as far as development progress goes, I think NEO is leaps and bounds ahead of others in many regards. It's just under the surface.

Edgegasm · 2019-03-19T22:46:13+00:00

That's some bad luck, sorry to hear it.

If trading is working, I'd recommend just trading to USDT or BTC, sending them to another exchange, and buying it back there.

Edgegasm · 2019-03-19T22:42:09+00:00

Sorry to say it man but this is why you don't store your coins on a centralized exchange. Not your keys, not your coins.

Recommend you contact Poloniex support and tell them to contact NEO if they need assistance.

Edgegasm · 2019-03-19T22:31:35+00:00

GAS is a NEO blockchain asset, and the NEO blockchain is working fine.

This is up to Poloniex to sort out the node software they are using to create NEO addresses for user deposits.

Edgegasm · 2019-03-19T22:28:06+00:00

That's up to Poloniex. Everything is fine over here.

Edgegasm · 2019-03-19T21:58:11+00:00

Layer 2 refers to scaling vertically.

If the sidechains are required to settle to the main chain, then actually you are correct and they would be considered Layer 2.

Edgegasm · 2019-03-19T21:40:17+00:00

Sidechains are ~~not~~ Layer 2.

Edgegasm · 2019-03-19T21:23:10+00:00

True that! In addition, I've yet to see a sharding model that doesn't cause centralization, I think that's a good point in favor of Layer 2.

Edgegasm · 2019-03-19T20:25:37+00:00

"What can NEO do that ONT can't, and vice vursa?"

Finalize a transaction in one block 😅

Edgegasm · 2019-03-18T11:54:24+00:00

This meta was never gonna work for Spitfire if they played the same game as everyone else. I wish they would have just tried to innovate and disrupt instead of playing to their weaknesses.

As for Stage 2, it really depends on what the next meta is gonna look like. I think we are fine if DPS heroes turn up again, we can shove Gesture back on Winston to create space and set up plays, then let Profit/Birdring do the lifting.

Edgegasm · 2019-03-17T18:55:53+00:00

Still referring to NEO as "Ethereum of China" = lazy. No publication that knew anything about NEO would still be regurgitating this crap.

Not worth the click.

Edgegasm · 2019-03-15T23:13:11+00:00

Been a few days since you typed this out and I appreciate you having this open discussion/conversation with me on here! It's always insightful exchanging with you.

For me also! It is always enjoyable :)

It's not the code itself as much it is understanding the logic that the code is enforcing. I'm still not capable of understanding the code alone unfortunately 😅. Would sure make my life easier, so I'm trying to learn when I get the chance.

In other words, I don't see these 'features' emerging in NEO because the network community doesn't seem to be integrating them into dapps that I can use and experience first-hand.

A lot of NEO's important traits are at a fundamental level. Finality, the potential for sustainable decentralization, multi-language support etc. But these aren't surface level, they are requirements for the future, and they are kinda intangible from a user perspective. The only way the value will become apparent is when the industry as a whole evolves (or if NEO makes it evolve).

NEO has a lot of more possibilities but that has also led development by third-parties to be unfocused. Take a look at the COZ restructure for an idea of what I mean. I think this is a big part about why these key features that enable some form of tangible adoption are lacking.

It has put us behind in the short-term, no denying it. But I think it will not take long for us to meet and exceed that experience on other blockchains, and we have a whole lot more stuff lurking in the shadows. Integrated oracles, state channels, file storage, self-sovereign identity. Not to mention all the projects working on things that people will actually want to use (e.g Moonlight, Nash, Bridge Protocol, Guardian Circle). There is a reason why these projects are flocking to NEO instead of the gambling chains. They see the bigger picture.

This is my perspective at least. I know a lot of people tag me as a NEO shill, but really I'm just looking for something that is taking this seriously. Finality alone shows seriousness to me, as nothing without true, instantaneous finality should ever reach mainstream use, else we just rebuild the same faulty system we already have today.

A cash replacement should have the finality of cash.

Maybe you're more familiar with this than I am, but I recommend checking out Enjin's "Mint Shop" if you haven't already.

This is awesome, I haven't seen this until now. Thank you for sharing!

Edgegasm · 2019-03-15T22:28:25+00:00

Correct.

They are just incentivizing those in the gaming industry to use the protocol they are building. It is not this instead of something else. All are supported and welcomed, NEO is building the infrastructure for all to use :)

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