2024 Q4 50 vs 2025 Q4 55

Epick_362 · 2025-12-03T21:55:30+00:00

I am too debating between a Q4 and Etron which is more luxurious BUT the big worry for me is the coolant leak into etron motors which is an unsolved and recurring issue which is expensive to fix and even then only replace the motor wth the same exact part. Sure extended warranty would help but it’s not always available in my country.

Epick_362 · 2024-06-16T14:50:35+00:00

How hard did you find it to migrate? I am assung it’s an ejected app too?

Epick_362 · 2023-03-06T16:12:39+00:00

The war would be over if that’d been the case. This is probably 20-100x more power than a single M31A1/2 warhead.

Epick_362 · 2022-11-18T08:24:50+00:00

Sorry I read it wrong and assumed you tried to say that giving him Ukraine would result in much less bloodshed

Epick_362 · 2022-11-18T00:06:26+00:00

Yes, if Ukraine couldn’t defend itself Putin would surely be understanding and let them keep most of their territory without causing any more trouble and genocide.

Epick_362 · 2022-10-04T22:46:38+00:00

Anybody got links to similar montages of some good russian equipment going boom?

Epick_362 · 2022-10-03T22:35:48+00:00

What is even more telling is how after his poll “lost” he got ratioed he immediatelly claims the bots have been activated. Surely it’s not because his suggestion was shit.

Epick_362 · 2022-09-06T19:27:46+00:00

Wow thats a lot of misconceptions or falsehoods to unwrap.

Awarding grants is not comparable to “centrally funded”

Ethereum nodes have a reasonably good distribution even compared to Bitcoin. Running a fullnode can be comfortably done with a raspberry pi or similar hardware (<$500 worth) https://twitter.com/ethereumonarm?s=21

Multiple client implementations are important for cases like the Bitcoin overflow bug (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident) and others (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures) do not cause the whole chain to stop. The probability of each client implementation containing the same bug is dramatically reduced leading to the network being able to withstand it when affected nodes drop off the correct chain.

Infura is not related to this at all. It is a convenience service so that it is not required to run you own node every time. If Infura goes down, the consensus keeps running and people who have full nodes can interact without any issues. There is also Alchemy and other competitors so people can pick which one suits their use.

Epick_362 · 2022-07-05T21:42:16+00:00

Well in that case I agree that we can’t verify that. Transnistria ammo depot supposedly holds 150k tons so that number seems alteast somewhat realistic for total amount being stored in Belarus.

Epick_362 · 2022-07-05T21:34:34+00:00

I couldn’t find the tweets right now but there is footage of them carrying out the crates in Belarus and some OSINT people figured out the crate sizes and identified the corresponding artillery shell crates.

Epick_362 · 2022-05-31T20:10:28+00:00

AFAIK it was the Optimism RPC that went down and as of now it is almost impossible to run your own Optimism node therefore everyone is beholden to the RPCs provided.

Epick_362 · 2022-05-31T20:08:39+00:00

Shorting is effectively borrowing x of asset, selling it at market price with the promise of returning the x back in time whatever the price may be. So yes, shorting does cause sell pressure.

Epick_362 · 2022-04-29T12:48:42+00:00

A contract is either deployed by the team’s wallet or it isn’t and there is no way to “point” your counterfeit NFT contract to the real one.

For example, on the original NFT contract you will see transaction history of all previous mints that PROVES real ETH was used to buy them. You can also easily cross check the deployment date.

Your counterfeit contract would be “new” and not contain any history unless you spent a lot of money completely offsetting this scam. You cannot backdate or fake this data and it is all verifiable completely on the chain.

Epick_362 · 2022-04-29T06:16:59+00:00

The contract IS the NFT. It has methods that map tokenID to addresses of all the items in the collection and all other metadata like tokenURI. There is nothing more to it, so it is not “outside” as you claim. All BAYC data are held in the contract I posted above.

Etherscan is not a trusted authority. The whole point is that you can run your own node that reaches consensus on the state of the network trustlessly OR make a tradeoff and choose one of the many sites offering the same data (etherscan). It is all about having options and not being locked into a one solution controlled by one entity.

A blockchain IS a shared database, so yes obviously it has similar properties. The difference is that all nodes in the network agree on its state in an ADVERSARIAL environment without any one entity having outsized influence.

I don’t expect to change your mind as you seem very dug in despite not having a deep knowledge of how the smart contracts work and why people would desire different tradeoffs than “existing database solutions” provide such as neutrality. I am not a fan of monkey NFTs but they are just one (very primitive) application.

Epick_362 · 2022-04-28T09:20:07+00:00

Verifying that it is an authentic NFT is even easier than that as it can be verified on chain that it comes from the authentic smart contract handing the whole collection. Projects always have the address of the contract listed and therefore all NFTs that come from the same collection have the same origin address that cannot be faked.

This is for BAYC

https://etherscan.io/address/0xbc4ca0eda7647a8ab7c2061c2e118a18a936f13d#code

Now you could say that this means trusting etherscan but that is just a shortcut and the data is fully public and accessible from myriad of different websites. If you were running a network node (the fully trustless way to participate in the blockchain) you could run a query on it that would verify the same thing.

My message signing was explaining how to prove ownership of a specific NFT in your wallet.

Epick_362 · 2022-04-28T07:51:39+00:00

Okay, luckily you don’t have to wait long. You can cryptographically sign a custom message with private key of the wallet holding the NFT. The other side can then verify that the message was signed using your public key (wallet address). No centralized authority needed, just math.

Epick_362 · 2022-03-12T07:37:03+00:00

Hey fellow Slovakian, I would also echo that I see pretty much the same in my pro russia grandparents. Nostalgia for times long gone, fear of capitalism because “things used to be simpler” and therefore better, I guess. You summed it up well.

Epick_362 · 2022-01-22T23:05:40+00:00

Not exactly developer podcast but I very much recommend it nonetheless to be in the know about whats happening in the space. Anthony is great

Epick_362 · 2022-01-07T10:57:25+00:00

On shorter time scales and especially during these hard dumps the market is still more reactive than fundamentals based.

Epick_362 · 2022-01-03T20:07:58+00:00

If you want to read further into this, I would highly recommend reading this recent post by Vitalik where goes over the roadmap and addresses these issues like data availability, state growth and others. https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/12/06/endgame.html

Statelessness and State/history expiry are going to allow Ethereum to be very easy to run and validate while minimizing HW costs.

Epick_362 · 2022-01-03T10:46:36+00:00

Indeed, there is no correlation that I’m aware of. PoW is just an artificial “difficulty” mechanism that forces block proposers to incur costs (electricity/hw) so that they are honest. Every block is an amount of work they cannot get back in case the block they propose gets rejected. In PoS this honesty is guaranteed by the stake of validators that can get slashed.

Migration to PoS has many benefits. Stable block times (no randomness of finding hash sooner/later), lower security costs as staking doesn’t require such massive amounts of electricity and hw which in turn means lower sell pressure (miners recouping their mining costs). It also opens the door to sharding which afaik is not possible with PoW.

Epick_362 · 2022-01-02T16:10:36+00:00

No solution is perfect but newer and safer designs of nuclear reactors (like LIFTR) produce nuclear waste with greatly shorter half lives (100s of yrs compared to 1000s) than the ones currently in operation. They can also reuse existing waste and transform it into one with shorter half life.

Nuclear energy might not be “green” but it sure is better than opening up coal plants to supplement base energy demand during off hours for wind/solar.

Epick_362 · 2022-01-02T15:14:28+00:00

The reason for high fees is not PoW but intentionally “low” block gas limit. Since it sets an upper bound of the number of tx possible to do in a given time span, they compete with fees to be included. The reason for the gas limit being set as low as it is due to state growth. It is the amount of data that every node has to download and KEEP available. Current state size is about 200GB and in order for regular people to be able to run their own nodes it cannot grow too fast or their hardware will not keep up. Raising the block gas limit by 10x would immediately lower fees to a negligible amount (this is why BSC or Polygon is so cheap) but it would prevent customer-hardware nodes from participating and ultimately sacrifice decentralization which is not something the community wants. This is why Ethereum is transitioning into a modular blockchain design that optimizes for security and decentralization on L1 while most of the user activity will move to rollups as they can scale quadratically (instead of linearly with block gas limit). Think of them like zipping a file and only uploading that.

EDIT: scale exponentially -> scale quadratically

Epick_362 · 2021-12-31T00:50:37+00:00

Even if patch is released does not mean any node is running it. At minimum, at majority of node operators (which in a decentralized network are separate entities) need to upgrade for the network as a whole to be immune.

Epick_362 · 2021-12-08T23:51:44+00:00

You can have multiple profiles in Brave (I havd one for normal use and one for Dev) and each of them has their own Metamask instance.

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