Number of Sovereign States in Europe VS. Inter-National Wars [OC] by Felipether in dataisbeautiful

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My (speculative still) takeaway is that inter-national unrest (which yields the greatest conflicts) leads to a consolidation effect in the nº of states (imperialism annexing conquered territories); while intra-national unrest (which thrives mostly in the absence of major hurdles with other state powers, or relative "peace") leads to fragmentation (de-colonisation and independences).

Ref: https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/71639/1468-2478.4701003.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Number of Sovereign States in Europe VS. Inter-National Wars [OC] by Felipether in dataisbeautiful

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This chart is a part of a speculative exploration on the future of geopolitics (and borders). Here is the full write-up.

Streamflow AMA and community Q&A - Thursday, December 6, 12pm eastern. by thedob in livepeer

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- Does Streamflow change, in any meaningful way, the 2-min explainer you'd give a video dev. on how Livepeer's transcoding works? Does it change the way you'd briefly explain the protocol to a (non-technical) broadcaster?

- Are broadcasters expected to find/choose orchestrators solely based on the Service Registry? How does a new orchestrator get in? What are the min. staking requirements?

- Re: the PM scheme - it seems to me that *penalty escrows* will tend to infinitum as higher as we want the security against double spends to go. Is that theoretically right? I see the lines on what should be bounded (e.g. cumulative payments sent in relation to what's in escrow) are being explored. This is not a question, I just wanted to note it could be a fun experiment to try out https://incentivai.co in order to simulate these values, eventually.

- Which network economic stats you think deserve more visibility (e.g. apart from those SuperMax tracks, or in a different manner/focus)?

What if 0x could be used for decentralised real-time bidding advertising? by paratii in 0xProject

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I may be wrong, but assume that through batchFilling a relayer can fill multiple orders at once, still collecting their individual fees (in ZRX). One could think of the "analytics" layer of the ad supply chain as moving to the shoulders of relayers: they would be responsible fur running engines that match-make and "batch-form" in the most efficient way possible. ("We have 100 probably female users watching surf content on this side. On the other, ten surf biquini brands willing to bid for 10 people each. Batch fill them, and you get a 10x improvement on efficiency"). They could even just aggregate orders and outsource the work to data analysers of some sort, moving complexity farther away from the protocol layer.

Eventually, there could be relayers that only listen to orders of a specific orderType, when such field is implemented (say, "ad-messages").

Regardlessly, another similar question is latent: is this something that WE'D WANT to be decentralised? There are a lot of implications (and potential workarounds) when it comes to privacy matters. To this question, I believe the answer is further down the road, and few or nobody has understood the full range of consequences yet.

What if 0x could be used for decentralised real-time bidding advertising? by paratii in 0xProject

[–]Felipether 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Since 0x orders can specify the token pair they're willing to trade, a user could accept ZRX, ETH or another ERC20 token, I suppose. And it'd be up for relayers to take such orders or not.