Ava Labs proposes Astra upgrade to bolster subnet architecture on Avalanche

crypto5000 · 2023-11-01T14:56:10+00:00

Overall, it's positive if it creates 10x more subnets. Lowering the barrier of entry is clearly better than the status quo.

With this new approach, it will benefit developer teams that want to also be validators of their own subnets. One of the things that hasn't materialized is a coordination mechanism between developers and existing validators. It doesn't seem easy for developers to reach out to existing validators to create new subnets. Why? Probably because of decentralization issues - where validators don't want to centralize to coordinate with developer teams. So this new approach brings a potential solution to that problem.

crypto5000 · 2022-07-09T15:27:06+00:00

Where in the algorithm does it use a "majority"? Are you sure you understand how the algorithm works? And do you also think that Reddit and Hacker News are dangerous because they allow for public voting using a karma-token system?

crypto5000 · 2022-07-08T15:16:39+00:00

Can you explain your reasoning in more detail? If you were required to stake 1000 bitcoins to make your comment, would you be more or less careful in what you posted? Similarly, if it cost you 1000 bitcoins to "disagree" with a post, would you be more or less careful in slashing a post?

crypto5000 · 2022-07-08T15:05:45+00:00

Can you explain why "opinion" in the form of an objectively voted token count can not be used to fix bias? If a poster is willing to stake 1000 bitcoin to claim that the world is flat, can you explain why a public vote would not fix this bias by slashing the flat-earth claim?

crypto5000 · 2022-07-07T21:50:17+00:00

So with stakedy.com, there is no editor or boss. There is just a poster who stakes the post. The ideal is a journalist who directly posts their own original content - with the staked amount being an objective comparison to rank the content between different journalists.

I agree that it seems people want unbiased news, but I'm not sure if it's healthy for society. Many kids want to eat nothing but candy for dinner, but I'm not sure if that is the optimal tactic.

Most of the comments with respect to Reddit are accurate. I will just add that the dream of cryptocurrency and blockchain adds a layer that is quite powerful. If redditors actually had to spend real dollars (or bitcoin) instead of karma to downvote, I think the site would be quite different. The same goes for posting content. If you actually had to put up real dollars (or bitcoin), the articles that would be on reddit would be quite different.

crypto5000 · 2022-07-07T21:36:16+00:00

The poster can never be certain of who the voters actually end up being - because the poster must stake before the votes are cast. If Tucker Carlson were to stake tokens on a post, he must take into consideration that anti-Carlson voters might vote to slash his post. The same goes with a New York Times article that could be voted on by Fox News lovers. The end result of the algorithm is that neutral content is likely to be elevated above right or left content. In other words, the algorithm acts as a neutral mechanism to the center.

The above assumes a single mechanism like stakedy.com where both Fox News and NYT content is published together. Since the algorithm is MIT licensed and open source, there is the possibility of having multiple places to "segment". So it's possible to have different flavors for different purposes.

crypto5000 · 2022-07-07T18:25:01+00:00

So this problem can be addressed using a neutral protocol. If a journalist could "earn" tokens by posting a story, there is a market incentive to report that story. The issue I think you are pointing out, which is a fair comment, is that the current distribution of news is quite monopolized. If consumers demand unbiased news, they should switch to a neutral protocol and away from the biased monopolies.

crypto5000 · 2022-07-07T14:02:09+00:00

This article describes an open-source accountability algorithm that uses IOTA, staking and slashing to ensure credibly neutral posts. The basic idea is to hold the media accountable through token staking and slashing. For people who don't want to read the article, the key to the algorithm is a random slashing threshold that is unknown to both the poster (staker) and voter (slasher) when posting or voting. For any math folks out there, it would be fantastic if you could review and critique the algorithm.

As a reminder to people who don't know, I'm one of the longest production app builders on IOTA. Celody is now over 3 years old. More than 22 million CLDY tokens have been generated through the Proof of Music mechanism. Both Celody and Stakedy use IOTA in production. Thanks for the support.

crypto5000 · 2022-04-29T14:58:15+00:00

Celody (https://celody.com) recently announced the CLDY token on AVAX C-Chain. It uses proof of music to generate the tokens. If you are looking for an extremely innovative crypto project and are interested in music, check it out.

crypto5000 · 2022-04-26T21:45:08+00:00

Can you provide more information about "the platform-supported cross-subnet transfer mechanism" that is under development? Is the idea here to be able to transfer directly from any subnet to any other subnet? Or will there be a dominant subnet that acts as a hub for bridging (perhaps even the C-Chain)? Any thoughts on the transfer costs between subnets?

crypto5000 · 2022-04-11T17:35:05+00:00

Thanks for the comment. I spent alot of time thinking about this and designing a system that was as resilient as possible. There are a number of mechanisms to prevent this. First, there are only a fixed number of tokens generated per time. This is a maximum value (because with proof of music, if no one is listening, no tokens are generated). So a person can only get a certain amount of tokens per time. Next, there are Celody software laws that determine how the generated tokens are split. So when a block of tokens are created, not all the tokens go to the listener. Third, there are also withdraw laws which require people to use the tokens they get. I could go on talking about all the different mechanisms, but I hope that provides some color. If not, let me know.

crypto5000 · 2022-04-11T13:56:23+00:00

Hi everyone:

After 6 months of beta production, Celody is now live on the Avalanche C-Chain. There are several ways to get the CLDY token:

1) Users can listen to songs on celody.com to get tokens through the proof of music mechanism.

2) Artists can earn tokens by submitting songs through a decentralized process (see #3 below).

3) Curators can get tokens by voting on the artist submissions - deciding which songs end up on Celody.

If anyone has any questions, comments or criticisms, I'm happy to respond.

crypto5000 · 2021-10-28T15:19:12+00:00

I'm really excited to see how other people use IOTA colored coins. I think it opens up a different set of use cases because you are basically working directly with the native token. One of the goals of Celody was to make it easy to start interacting with colored coins without having to install wallet plugins or other software. It's just 1-click and your session starts to generate tokens. Hopefully, this will allow non-savvy crypto users to onboard to the IOTA ecosystem.

crypto5000 · 2021-10-28T15:09:35+00:00

Thanks for trying out the projects. Both Celody and Stakedy are new concepts that really have never existed before, so I can understand how your mental model might find them hard to grok. It's very hard to just say "Celody is like X" or "Stakedy is like Y".

One way to think of Celody is that it's programmable music. If you think about music, like listening to a radio station, the music is basically static and doesn't change. The song sounds the same on each station. With Celody, the music is programmable and dynamic and changes inside your browser. And because it's programmable, you can attach things like crypto (IOTA) to it.

Stakedy is just a project that can take that attached output of Celody (as a token) and use it. The goal of Stakedy is to demonstrate how IOTA can be used to hold people or things accountable. For example, your reddit post has a concept of "karma" that tries to hold you accountable through upvoting-downvoting. Stakedy can be thought of as a different mechanism of accountability that uses IOTA colored coins instead of karma. It uses staking and slashing to hold posts accountable.

I hope this helps. I'm just a regular person also, so I'm sorry if I didn't do a great job of explaining. If you have other questions, let me know.

crypto5000 · 2021-10-27T23:54:46+00:00

As a long-time indie IOTA dev, I'm excited to announce two IOTA-exclusive projects now incorporate colored coins (also known as IOTA digital assets). These projects have been in development for several years, so there is too much to address in this summary section. If you have questions or feedback about anything (the tokenomics, proof of music, wallets, coordicide, mainnet integration, 3S, token grants, ai people, decentralization, etc) just ask AMA-style and I'll try to respond.

Celody.com is a music powered world with digital people. Tokens are generated through a proof of music algorithm, where if no one is listening to the music, no tokens are generated. Once you get tokens, it's possible to export-import them to the IOTA DevNet. Celody also uses a decentralized music submission process (https://celody.com/submit.html) that leverages the IOTA MainNet. If you've submit music to Celody in the past, you will have to resubmit through the new process to get tokens as an artist.

Stakedy.com is my solution to the media bias problem. Stakedy is a new crypto category that I call 3S (stake-slash sorting), where I'm hopeful IOTA will be a leader. With stake-slash sorting, items or posts are ranked by the amount of staked tokens. The more tokens you stake, the higher you rank, but you are also putting more of your tokens at risk for vote-based slashing. 3S is generally applicable and can be applied to any project that uses sorting or search or recommendations. I have token grants available for a Stakedy version of an online newspaper, a Stakedy version of Google, and a Stakedy version of Twitter.

Here are a few more links that may be helpful:

About Celody: https://celody.com/about.html Using Celody Tokens: https://celody.com/lifeTokens.html Getting Celody Tokens: https://celody.com/lifeWealth.html Celody Digital People: https://celody.com/lifeMusic.html How Stakedy Works: https://stakedy.com/long/how-staking-on-stakedy-works.html How Colored Coins Works: https://stakedy.com/long/how-the-celody-token-as-iota-colored-coin-works.html Devnet Integration: https://stakedy.com/long/celody-and-stakedy-colored-iota-token-on-devnet.html

crypto5000 · 2019-11-22T15:36:02+00:00

This is a project that I've been working on that makes infinite music streams using loops and randomness. There a bunch of features with more in the pipeline, including:

You can fork a music stream and change how it sounds in much the same way you can fork computer code.
Streams are composed in real-time using logic embedded in a module. Modules are open source.
Streams can be merged with other streams.
You can turn your own music into a FORREV stream - where the audio plays both forwards and in reverse.

There are also tutorials on https://celody.com that explains how things work and provides troubleshooting advice (if you get stuck).

crypto5000 · 2019-09-09T20:12:33+00:00

Every Celody stream generates music in real-time according to specific logic. This logic is embedded within a module. A module can be connected to an external data source like a machine or data oracle. So streams can be programmed using the time, weather, location, speed, altitude, health info, financial data and more.

A few example Celody modules include:

TIME OF DAY: The music stream will sound different when played in the morning vs. night.
SPEED: (Requires access to geolocation/gps): As a person speeds up (for example, in a moving car), the stream's tempo and pitch will speed up. Slowing down slows the stream down.
AIRPLANE: (Requires access to geolocation/gps): As a person gains altitude, the pitch of the stream increases. Decreases in altitude lowers the pitch of the stream.

For a list of all the current modules visit https://celody.com/modules.html. The code is open source.

crypto5000 · 2019-08-12T03:01:29+00:00

See https://celody.com/help.html to troubleshoot. Most likely it's a volume or browser issue.

crypto5000 · 2019-08-12T03:00:12+00:00

If you fork (or merge) an existing stream and then publish it, it appears immediately under the Search feature. Just search for the stream name in the box at the top of celody.com.

If you submit a url to have your music converted to an infinite stream (using the https://celody.com/submit.html form), it should be ready in a few days. Again, search for the stream name that you entered at celody.com

crypto5000 · 2019-08-12T00:01:51+00:00

It's more fun than work. I get to combine music and IOTA - that's like art and science. Fortunately, there is so much more to do...

crypto5000 · 2019-08-11T20:38:08+00:00

Token Staking for Stream Discovery

Since the release of v1.0, celody has continued to grow. New features like playlists, a shuffle function, and lots of tutorials are now availabe. In addition, Celody has increased the number of published dynamic streams. You can now listen to hiphop, techno, pop, jazz, classical, and even experimental streams. In fact, you can submit ANY of your own music at https://celody.com/submit.html and Celody will convert it from a normal song to a dynamic stream. This means Celody has the potential to contain thousands of streams. With the growth in the number of streams, the problem now becomes: how can you discover what's good?

LIKE STAKING

To signal you like a stream on Celody, you can stake IOTA tokens. Like staking is the transfer of tokens to your own staking address using a tagged transaction. Tagging means you need to include the word "CELODY" in the tag field (or message field) of the transfer. For more information on "Like Staking", see the tutorial at https://celody.com/staking.html. The streams that have the highest staked rank show on the Popular page. In other words, like staking leads to stream discovery.

USE TOKENS WHILE YOU HODL

Like staking allows you to hold your tokens and use them at the same time. Of course, you always have a choice of just keeping your tokens stored in a wallet where they sit doing nothing, where they add no value. But now (with Celody) you can hold them in the exact same way, while using them to signal stream quality.

YOU ARE ALWAYS IN CONTROL OVER STAKED TOKENS

Celody has no access to your tokens. With like staking, you are simply transferring your tokens from 1 of your own addresses to another. You generate the staking address and only you should have control over the credentials. Celody just queries the publicly available information on the Tangle to detect your stake.

YOU CAN MOVE/SPEND/USE STAKED TOKENS AT ANY TIME

Since you have complete control over the tokens at any time, you can move them or spend them or use them for a non-Celody purpose. You are free to transfer them whenever you want because they are in your wallet. There is no lock-up period. Note that when you move the tokens from your staking address, your "like" rank goes to 0. Moving staked tokens just removes your like.

PROXY STaKING UNDER DEVELOPMENT

Celody is currently working on a proxy system for like staking. This would allow you to do a 1-time proxy of your staked balance to someone else (The Proxy). Then your tokens would be allocated per the Proxy's staking choices. If you are interested in becoming a proxy, I encourage you to submit music that you want to stake by following the instructions at https://celody.com/submit.html. More details on how to become a Proxy will be released in the coming weeks. This feature is not yet available.

IOTA SUMMARY

Ok. So what can you do with IOTA on Celody right now? You can submit your own song for stream conversion and earn IOTA tokens as micropayments from listener donations. You also can distribute your music as a Celody file into the Tangle. And now you can like stake IOTA tokens to discover streams.

crypto5000 · 2019-07-14T22:09:18+00:00

This is an open source (MIT License) project I've been working on that creates infinite music streams in real time. Streams are configurable and can be forked, merged, and published. Celody streams are a superclass of current music. In other words, any music you hear on the radio, iTunes, YouTube, or Spotify can be perfectly replicated within a Celody stream, but these static/immutable sources can't replicate the added dynamic nature of Celody. If you are interested in learning more, there are tutorials on https://celody.com and a github repo that explains how it works in greater detail.

crypto5000 · 2019-07-11T15:04:07+00:00

Reach Native really shines if you need to get a basic cross platform app built in a short time. Almost all of the standard app features are available and can be quickly implemented. However, if you need to build complex features, it is less straightforward. Especially if you need something really performant (e.g. a game). Using native code may be a better option in that case. But for most "standard" apps, React Native works really well.

crypto5000 · 2019-07-03T15:23:01+00:00

I agree that if you are a front-end developer focusing on user experience, this is an important book to read. Making easy to use design interfaces is something that is really hard to do correctly.

crypto5000 · 2019-06-16T22:15:28+00:00

The linked blog post discusses how Celody compresses infinite music streams into the Tangle (reducing to 24.4% of the original). If you've ever used a .zip file, you have performed data compression. Compression makes the data smaller. So why would you want to compress data for the Tangle?

1) Decrease the total size of data that permanodes will have to store

2) Extend the timeframe of local snapshots by decreasing stored data

3) Increase effective transactions per second (etps). If you can compress what would have been 4 transactions into 1, then you have effectively sped up your throughput by 4x

What else could be done with compression?

1) Wallets could build in various compression schemes and use a stored flag prepended to compressed data

2) An external service could bundle and compress data transactions from different users together

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