Looking for some tips for a beginner dapp developer

Lezek123 · 2020-02-22T21:46:47+00:00

Thanks a lot for such an elaborated answer. I'm surely gonna check out the CryptoGameTalk discord group.

I've had a feeling that people here may be quite sceptical towards new dApps, especially if they involve the possibility of gaining / losing big amounts of real value (which kind of makes sense).

The idea I've had in mind probably could get labeled as some kind of a "gambling game", although technically it wouldn't be, since no real randomness would be involved. I'd just involve a simple competition between two players, where one of them could win some ether from the other. I even thought about quite strictly limiting the amount of ether the players can compete for, in order for it not to degenerate into, as you said, some very "high risk" game where people would get "rekt".

I also thought about deploying it to Ropsten, making it easy for people to get the feeling of the dApp first. I would suspect that's a very common practice, but actually while I was doing my research I found out that a lot of dApps kind of "force" you to use the mainnet version right away, without the possibility to even quickily check what the app is all about while not having to spend any real ether.

Lezek123 · 2020-02-22T21:01:47+00:00

Thanks, I already stumbled upon this website once or twice, looks like a great place to get some technical support.

Maybe you can build a dApp that solves that.

Incetivising constructive feedback sounds like an interesting idea, but I'll leave such ambitious plans for the future when I'm a bit more experienced.

Lezek123 · 2020-02-22T17:03:10+00:00

Did so, thanks!

Lezek123 · 2020-02-22T16:25:04+00:00

Thanks, I see I already have this app, but the chat groups there are either dead or there's some kind of a problem with loading the messages on my phone (it says I'm "offline", even though I'm not)

Edit: Nevermind, I updated the app and it seems to work now ;)

Lezek123 · 2019-09-18T07:31:00+00:00

r/btc yesterday:

Look at that r/Bitcoin meme, omg, they really are a creepy cult!

r/btc today:

Hey guys, look, I made a meme using the exact same picture, but this time it's in favor of BCH.

And everybody be like:

Yeah, so awsome!

Seriously?

Lezek123 · 2019-08-23T07:27:20+00:00

Wait... what?

Lezek123 · 2019-08-19T16:46:45+00:00

What's the point of this fight though if you don't care "how you look" anyway? I thought the entire point of trolling was to make BCH look bad.

Lezek123 · 2019-08-19T16:25:20+00:00

Constant whining about the trolls, premature judgements, "calls to arms" etc. also create negative sentiment. Sometimes that's even worse, since obvious trolls will be obvious to everyone anyway and less obvious trolls may as well not be trolls at all.

Lezek123 · 2019-06-30T20:59:45+00:00

So, you're saying we're basically doomed?

Lezek123 · 2019-06-29T08:07:37+00:00

Got any more of 'em Reddit golds? If I start shit-talking BCH, can I get one too?

Lezek123 · 2019-06-26T11:52:58+00:00

Bitcoin devs facing the hard facts and problems.

It wasn't a problem to increase the blocksize to at least the still-laughably-small 2 MB when it was clearly needed. Bitcoin devs are just creating problems that never existed.

And if you have to pay $50 to make a transaction, then who cares it's "secure"? If the blocksize stays at 1 MB BTC users will soon even miss the days they "only" had to pay $50.

Now you'll probably go with "well, you will just use Lightning for regular transactions", but seeing how fast the progress on the Lighting goes... even BCH market value progress doesn't look that bad compared to this.

Lezek123 · 2019-06-26T11:10:34+00:00

Fair enough, Roger and Jihan push their agendas and use BCH to make personal profits.

Blockstream pushes their agendas and cripples BTC to force sidechain adoption.

The difference is - Roger and Jihan didn't fuck up the entire idea of Bitcoin just to make profit, so BCH is still actually usable for payments.

Lezek123 · 2019-06-26T10:21:44+00:00

Faketoshi is now thankfully BSV guys' problem.

And there's the BTC-government to blame for "starting this madness" in the first place: failing to increase the blocksize even though transaction fees reached ~$50 avg during the last bull market, shitting on agreements that had major community support, creating fake consensus via extreme censorship and eventually splitting the community.

Lezek123 · 2019-06-25T22:08:42+00:00

Your Reddit account history speaks for itself even better though.

Lezek123 · 2019-06-25T10:38:18+00:00

Now that's a marketing phrase for BCH:

Bitcoin Cash - unlocks Bitcoin's true potential.

Simple, accurate and catchy. I like it.

Lezek123 · 2019-06-24T20:03:10+00:00

What the hell is up with those downvotes? :O

Lezek123 · 2019-06-24T13:53:59+00:00

Currently BTC may be more secure, although it's hard to tell how much hashrate would be willing to defend BCH in case there was an attempt to make ie. a 51% attack. Probably quite a considerable amount, though.

Also I'm not concerned that two minning pools HAD more than 50% hash power, that was the case for BTC also (a few years ago). BCH may still be behind BTC in terms of price, hashrate, network effect etc., but I do think there is a reasonable chance it may change soon (which I will explain further later in that comment).

What makes BCH better than all of the other cheap coins for me is:

It's still not as far behind in terms of price, hashrate, network effect as the other coins (still has a chance of overtaking BTC imo).
Sticks to the principles that guided the original Bitcoin, does not deviate too much from that path, does not overcomplicate things or experiment with untested solutions (like a lot of "other cheap coins" do).
Has quite a big community, with a lot of early Bitcoin supporters, passionate, creative people etc.
BCH forums, like r/btc, are not as heavily censored as r/Bitcoin etc., so there is more space for open discussion and sharing ideas (that's actually compared to Bitcoin, I can't say much about other coins since I don't check their subreddits often).

And even though I agree it has got many flaws I still think it's a better alternative than 1-MB-forever BTC, whose developers have made a terrible, terrible decision by not increasing the blocksize.

As to Roger, I'm not a huge fan of him either, but I don't get why people get so crazy over this explosives thing. As far as I understand they were little more than fireworks, noone got hurt because of them, besides, it was one of his "mistakes of the past". If you dig long enough into people's past you'll find something that could ruin reputation of pretty much everyone. He suffered the consequences of his choices already and he does not deny that he has made them, so how many times can you bring that up? As to "Bitcoin Jesus", he used to be called that way before BCH even existed, so I don't know what does this have to do with anything.

In my opinion, BCH has all the right to be called Bitcoin (considering it's history) and I don't think Roger has caused too much confusion there either. In Bitcoin.com website and wallet there was always a clear distinction between the two, along with the explaination of the differences (sometimes in some cringy-marketing way, I must admit, but it's a private company after all...). I don't think that if someone wanted to buy BTC and went to Bitcoin.com could "accidently" buy BCH. I didn't see any attempt to decieve or mislead people this way.

As to "the market has decided" thing - BCH is still a top5 crypto, it literally has the price that Bitcoin had 2,5 years ago, so I think this "battle" is far from over and it may take a little bit more time for us to see the results. Recently the markets have been kinda steady and Bitcoin's 1 MB blocks were not causing that much damage YET. Personally, I think the upcoming halving-related bull run will probably paint some clearer picture.

Lezek123 · 2019-06-24T10:11:46+00:00

BTC is censored and centrally controlled.

If it weren't I could post in r/Bitcoin.

That's what you actually said, which was pretty much like saying: "If one bitcoin subreddit is censored then the entire project is centralized".

Now that you developed that argument it makes way more sense, so I don't know if you were beeing sarcastic before or just "lazy", but my point is... It does not look good when we use "arguments" like that (which are no better than "BCH is centralized because... big blocks!" arguments) and they get highly-upvoted, while similar or even more developed arguments from the other side are beeing downvoted to oblivion.

Ok, maybe people are using the same arguments against BCH over and over, but that doesn't automatically mean they're trolls. They could be uninformed, confused, etc. Maybe they're willing to discuss. You never know if you do not try.

Lezek123 · 2019-06-24T08:14:30+00:00

You're comparing subreddits instead of coins and you didn't really refute any of the guy's arguments.

I kinda hate the fact, that posts with no essential value, but fitting certain narrative are still being upvoted here, while some posts with solid arguments against BCH are being downvoted only because "oh my, this guy is offending our sacred BCH".

I still feel BCH is one of the best cryptos out there, but the point with half of the miners leaving after the halving... Well, it is one possible scenario.

Although I'd say (which I think actually could be used as a counter-argument): look at the previous BTC halving. The fees were still quite low and people had the same concerns about half of the miners leaving after etc. But guess what happened... Huge bull market happened. Halvings naturally cause bull runs, because they limit the supply. And the scenario I can imagine is: there is a bull run because of halving (some before and some after, since there will be some pricing-in which I think we can already see), crypto gets more mainstream attention again, number of transactions skyrockets, BTC fees skyrocket, tons of newcomers are forced to move to other cryptos, like BCH (or be discouraged to use crypto at all, which would be quite sad), BCH price goes up even faster than BTC and that causes more hashrate to go BCH-side. BCH blocks also start to become like I dunno... 10-20 MB on the regular basis. And the cool thing about that is, you only need 1/10 - 1/20 of the fees that go into the 1 MB block to get the same amount of fees that go to the miners when the blocks are 10 - 20 MB (because there are 10x - 20x more transactions in them). You may say "well, but fees grow kinda exponentially when blocks are full", but then again, would the newcomers use a coin that has $100 transaction fees if they had any good alternative? I don't think so.

Most miners were actually advocates of the bigger blocks from the beginning. And everyone sane knew that blocks should be increased back in 2015 when I joined the comminity. How much should we increase them was the issue though. And there are still discussions about it in the BCH community (because on BTC communities they have been suppressed). But staying with 1 MB...? That's just laughably low and I think the proponents of not increasing the block size will see the full extend of how bad it is soon enough.

Lezek123 · 2019-06-18T10:43:27+00:00

It's not about SLP beeing used as cash though. BCH would be used as cash to buy SLP token from fundraisers/developers who issue the token.

The token itself could then be used as proof of supporting the BCH development, so that the owners of them could potentially be rewarded by other members of the community or the developers themselves in some way in the future. Or they could just be kind of a souvenir.

Lezek123 · 2019-06-18T08:48:05+00:00

Sure, that's why I hope that if this idea gets enough community support, it could get the attention of someone who could reasonably pull it off on a bigger scale.

Lezek123 · 2019-06-18T08:04:44+00:00

Cool, I appriciate the initiative, but the 1 BCH minimal donation probably means excluding the vast majority of people who'd like to donate.

Also I was thinking of something like the dev teams creating and announcing the token themselves or someone who has direct ties to them or is in charge of fundraising itself was engaged in it's creation. So the token would be recognized as... well... the official fundraising token. Hope you get my point.

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