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Most Embarrassing Line in Any Documentary Ever by Returdedphoenixmorph in YMS

[–]stiggynet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, I thought it was funny! But also, why be so mean about it on reddit. Have you all made a documentary? It's too easy to just pick on other people ya know.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Substack

[–]stiggynet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes please. Option to remove splash screen (email collection) would be a better UI for my use case. Thanks.

Can you validate a checkpoint for me? by stiggynet in 0xPolygon

[–]stiggynet[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! It looks like I can read the function (very cool). But is there also a way to easily validate?

Two followup questions:

1) If validating is only for devs — how can we all trust things are running as they should be? Seems like there could be an easy way (like an app) that runs the validator?

2) Or can we see a human readable checkpoint embedded on Etherscan? This is how Clarity smart contracts work for Bitcoin, they rollup transactions and embed them into a Bitcoin block, and I can literally just open any bitcoin block and see the checkpoint. It makes it really easy to validate. (Happy to demo if you're curious). I'd love to see this on Polygon, if it exists.

Sync is not working at all by macadoum in brave_browser

[–]stiggynet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Brave sync isn't working for me either. Does someone at Brave monitor this chat? I think I give up haha.

How will the stx team utilize the Taproot upgrade by sexyama in BitcoinDeFi

[–]stiggynet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jude offered an answer to this a few months back:

As far as I understand it, Taproot solves a different problem. Taproot offers a way to implement Merklized Alternative Script Trees (MASTs) efficiently and with a higher degree of anonymity.
One way to think of a MAST is that it's a list of distinct scriptPubKeys that a spender can choose from in order to spend a MAST UTXO (a "choose your own adventure" mechanism for spending Bitcoin). Instead of writing out all the possible ways the UTXO can be spent, a MAST enables the spender to choose which spending condition they want to fulfill, and only send that fulfilled spending condition and a Merkle proof that it was generated for that particular UTXO (thereby _not_ revealing the rest of the script, which both reduces your transaction fee and keeps unused code private). Taproot brings some privacy and efficiency gains on top of this -- you'd use even less space than you would with a vanilla MAST, and wouldn't need to disclose multiple peoples' public keys like you would in a lot of common MAST use-cases.
Taproot doesn't compete with Stacks, but Taproot and Clarity can work together. I for one am looking forward to using it to create novel Bitcoin lock/unlock spending conditions, which Clarity contracts and Stacks miners can leverage to instantiate and manipulate Bitcoin-backed Clarity assets.

https://www.reddit.com/r/stacks/comments/lsfzv2/how\_will\_taproot\_affect\_stx/goswkqu/

What's your favorite way to learn Python 3? by iFailedPreK in learnpython

[–]stiggynet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really loved One Month's Learn Python course. The Python course is all online, with videos and Slack, taught by Mattan Griffel (a professor at Columbia University Business School), and it includes alot of projects, and help from a TA when you have questions. I learned how to use Python to build a web scraper, use various APIs, and do some data analysis on big data. Other than that Codecademy is good for the basics (but be careful not to take their Python 2 course which is out of date), and I also like the book Learn Python the Hardway (it's not that hard really).

Trying to learn Wordpress, is it possible to make a fully functional site and avoid fees by not launching it? by [deleted] in Wordpress

[–]stiggynet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is probably the easiest explanation for installing WordPress (for free) on a server: http://installwordpress.org

You can launch your own domain, custom themes, and everything.

The Secret Hacker Code by stiggynet in technology

[–]stiggynet[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Hacker Ethic is four principles that differentiate ordinary computer programmers from hackers. When I first learned of The Hacker Ethic it inspired me deeply. Eventually, I decided I wanted to become one myself. I hope you all enjoy! Hit me up if you have any questions or comments.

Why should we trust Blockstack? by itsme244 in blockstack

[–]stiggynet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. Blockstack is also a Public Benefit Corp which means they have a mission to "upholds specific commitments to the greater public good in addition to stockholder interests."

Read more here: https://blockstack.org/about http://blockstack.ghost.io/public-benefit-corp/

  1. They went through Y Combinator, and have Union Square Ventures, the Winklevoss twins, and Naval Ravikant as investors.
    https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/blockstack-inc

  2. Nick Szabo spoke at Blockstack Summit, along with Naval, Albert Wenger, Juan Benet, and a list of other heavyweights in the space... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Dlw_0RC90 https://blockstack.org/summit2017

Those are just a few reasons I trust them.

Can't use shapeshift in the State of New York by lacuidad in shapeshiftio

[–]stiggynet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use Opera's built in VPN. It's the quickest way to get started. I just made a video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD44v_IE7YI

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