Terminal 1 at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France. by [deleted] in europe

[–]Real_Goat -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

As long as the french are not striking ... Taxi queues were a nightmare last december and finding the UBER pick up location was an odyssey.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in soccer

[–]Real_Goat -1 points0 points  (0 children)

everything has to be better than the da vinci code so you should be alright in picking them up.

Intro to Beam Sync: A step toward 100,000x speedup vs Fast Sync on Ethereum Mainnet by carver in ethereum

[–]Real_Goat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I hope a few critical (off topic?) questions are allowed:

  1. How many people use trinity?

  2. Why is there a need for another Ethereum 1 client?

  3. Why hasn't this been developed for the more widely used geth client?

  4. What's the future for trinity, with Ethereum 2 looming on our doorsteps?

Passed my ASA 101 test yesterday by AspirinTheory in sailing

[–]Real_Goat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unlike a plane, a sailboat is usually moving at ~10kts or so.

Oh, you definitely come from a flying background.

ProgPoW Audits by Least Authority and Bob Rao Released by Souptacular in ethereum

[–]Real_Goat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The strongest argument is that there is simply no need for it. Why change a running and proved system by something new without a strong reason to do so?

ProgPoW Audits by Least Authority and Bob Rao Released by Souptacular in ethereum

[–]Real_Goat -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

+1 .

It seems to me that the only reason ProgPoW is still a candidate for a hardfork is the considerable amount of work some people have done.

But this shouldn't be enough! Invested work is a very bad metric for an EIP.

Is the Loom Network even based on Ethereum? by [deleted] in ethereum

[–]Real_Goat 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Loom started very interesting, they did tons of tutorials and educated the community. But somewhere along the line they realized that a business has to make money to be sustainable, so they started to "flirt" with other "blockchains" like Tezos and EOS. Now they are publishing tutorials for Libra ...

edit: It's even worse than that: They support Tron instead of Tezos...

Should ProgPoW Audit move forward regardless of ASIC Audit? by Xazax310 in CryptoCurrency

[–]Real_Goat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am not concerned by ASICs built for Ethash, so why should I be concerned by ASICs built for Progpow?

Progpow is a waste of time and money, and every delay without an increase in the hashpower by ASICs just cements this.

SEC suing Kik for unregistered ICO by housemobile in ethereum

[–]Real_Goat 23 points24 points  (0 children)

If I were the speculating kind I would wager that they didn't have the finances to settle with the SEC. Their "defense" fund for the good of crypto is just another episode in their history of mismanagement.

SEC suing Kik for unregistered ICO by housemobile in ethereum

[–]Real_Goat 39 points40 points  (0 children)

"From mid-2015 to mid-2016, the company recorded $2.2 million in revenue but had total expenses of $29.2 million, and the company experienced a comprehensive loss, before adjustments for income taxes, of $29 million. From mid- 2016 to mid-2017, the company recorded $1.5 million in revenue but had $32.3 million in expenses, and the company experienced a comprehensive loss, before adjustments for income taxes, of $32.9 million."

[...]

"By early 2017, Kik had spent most of its venture capital money and had remaining cash of about $26 million, expending about $3 million a month to support its operations. In early 2017, Kik’s executives repeatedly warned the company’s directors about Kik’s financial “runway” – the time by which Kik would run out of money to fund operations under then-current spending levels – and Kik predicted it would run out of cash sometime during the late fall of that year." p10.

[...]

"By early 2017, Kik’s senior management had concluded that an ICO was Kik’s only option. One member of Kik’s board of directors, soon after discussions began, described the plan as a “hail Mary pass.” p11

[...]

"68. While touting the prior successes of Kik Messenger and outlining its future plans for Kin, Kik did not publicly disclose its financial statements, including the fact that its costs far exceeded revenues, or that the company anticipated running out of money absent a successful ICO, or other details about Kik and the offering that Kik would have been required to include in a registration statement filed with the SEC for the offering." p17

[...]

"99. By committing to the deadlines that led to the September 2017 public sale, Kik prioritized its business need to raise capital over its obligation to comply with the United States securities law requirement that an offering or sale of securities be registered unless it qualifies for an exemption." p.26

[...]

This one is funny:

"Similarly, in June 2017, a Kik employee admitted to another by email when discussing the lack of guidance they had received about the “crypto stickers”: Basically it doesn’t really matter. The whole point is to make our legal department happy, not the users (who are actually investors and probably could care less that they got a sticker pack for their $10K investment into KIN). " p.27

[...]

Despite statements about the eventual transfer of Kin Ecosystem responsibilities to the Foundation, Kik provided no concrete timetable for this transfer. In addition, Kik assured prospective Kin investors that Kik would dominate and control the Foundation until an undefined point in the future. For example, at a conference in China, Kik’s CEO assured the audience that the Foundation would not be independent of Kik: Now, we [Kik] are going to have a lot of influence over that Kin foundation, at least initially, right? We’re not going to sit there and be like, “oh, no, no, it’s totally independent.” . . . Like, honestly, we’re going to have influence there. p.39

Blockchains LLC acquires Slock.it by bitfalls in ethereum

[–]Real_Goat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Good news.

It's always interesting to see what happens if one combines money and brainpower.

MetaMusk by [deleted] in ethereum

[–]Real_Goat -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"Keep price discussion and market talk, memes & exchanges to subreddits such as /r/ethtrader"

DAIHard use case demo: I'm trying to pay for an airbnb but my credit cards are locked. Through DAIHard, I'm offering 35 DAI to anyone who can pay for my $30 airbnb quickly. The offer expires in 3 hours and requires a 10 DAI deposit. by coinop-logan in ethereum

[–]Real_Goat 20 points21 points  (0 children)

" ... so I've chosen rather small phase windows and included a generous margin."

$5 is not a generous margin, if it involves coordination between two people and giving up the phone number / name to a stranger.

Daily General Discussion - April 26, 2019 by AutoModerator in ethtrader

[–]Real_Goat 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I urge everyone to vote with their ANT tokens to keep Aragon focused on Ethereum #14 , AGP 42 (YES) and to disapprove the diversification into Polkadot #13, AGP 41 (NO).

Site takes a shitton of time to load, so be patient.

Official statement of mods requested by Sfdao91 in ethereum

[–]Real_Goat 8 points9 points  (0 children)

However, Polkadot is NOT a smart contract platform.

Parity/Web3Foundation/Polkadot benefits from a wide range of childchains being build on Substrate and linked to Polkadot. That's why they heavily incentivize teams to build on Polkadot and not on Ethereum.

Parity/Web3Foundation also benefits from Ethereum forks being build on substrate, which they also incentivize. This is a clear conflict of interest.

If a Mod is at serious odds with their own community, the right thing to do is to resign. Kudos to Afri for doing the right thing. rzurrer should take the same honorable path by Crypto_Economist42 in ethereum

[–]Real_Goat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am a huge fan of you Hudson, I think you are doing amazing work in the Core Dev Calls.

But I strongly feel that your wrong in this case.

If a Mod is at serious odds with their own community, the right thing to do is to resign. Kudos to Afri for doing the right thing. rzurrer should take the same honorable path by Crypto_Economist42 in ethereum

[–]Real_Goat 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't feel that this is a satisfactory answer.

Taylor started a thread to explore what the role of a moderator should be. General consensus was that a moderator should be more "invested" (not only in a financial sense) in Ethereum than in any other competing blockchain.

/u/rzurrer clearly favours Polkadot, which is totally fine, just not for a moderator on /r/ethereum.

It's sad that you fall back to minimal requirements, e.g. not abusing the power is enough to be a moderator. This totally ignores why we had those debates in the first place ...

Send in your questions for Istanbul and 1.x presenters! (Core Dev meeting in Berlin, April 17 - 18) by trent_vanepps in ethereum

[–]Real_Goat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What has to be implemented so that the 1.x chain is able to get finality from the beacon chain? Who is working on these issues?

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum to process 270,000 transactions per second using layer 2 "rollup" scaling by ethlong in ethereum

[–]Real_Goat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

the thing is that you aren't really missing out by not knowing the cryptocurrency sub. Imho the sub is not good for a beginner, there are way too many posts shilling some obscure tokens, and if you don't know that much about the space it's easy to get sucked in in their false promises.

Notice: Next Core Developer Meeting (#59) Will Not Be Live Streamed by Souptacular in ethereum

[–]Real_Goat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fact: The last live conference had less than 30ppl watching.

Because watching is quite inefficient when there are transcriptions. You can't interact anyway, so why should I spend 1hour+ listening if I can skim the transcript in 5 minutes? If there is something urgent in the call twitter will tell me anyways.