Bootstrapping is hard though, especially when you need to pay a team to even achieve your MVP. That said, if you have a really amazing idea, it's definitely worth bootstrapping. Investors will always want

Smoke and mirrors is exactly right! It's scary how reliant we are on a handful of companies to keep the internet running!

Yeah, that would be ideal. Certainly going to look for alternatives to the Google/Amazon crowd for future projects!

Never heard of Fastly until it took my site down yesterday. Would we still need services like Fastly if IPFS reaches critical mass?

That fastly outage hit me hard. It's terrifying having your site go down and being powerless to do anything about it.

Pretty glad I took profits when I did. We'll find the bottom of this dip soon enough, and then have another chance to buy.

This is why I'm totally against the idea of government of any kind.

In a DSP (Digital Signal Processing) sense, moving averages can be thought of as low-pass filters. They remove some of the high-frequency information and allow the lower frequency information to pass through.

I think gaming is going to be HUGE in its own right, but also as a stepping stone to real, functional currencies. Totally agree that the future value of cryptocurrencies will be based on utility. If it's

A quick search seems to confirm this. The energy FUD is total bullshit!

I'm willing to bet the global banking sector uses a lot more energy than bitcoin. This would be an interesting comparison since that's essentially what bitcoin is trying to replace!

Nice. I clearly haven't been posting enough! Still working towards my first milestone of 100 POB staked.

Really interesting to think of financial systems in physics terms! I think the comparison of transaction fees to friction is spot on. Would you say that chains with slower block times inherently have a

I wonder how much energy the global banking sector consumes in a year. That might make an interesting comparison, since that's what we're trying to replace.

How would we achieve price stabilisation of HBD? Seems like a rather difficult problem.

Looks like it hasn't been maintained for a long time.

I have not. Mostly use discord for work stuff.

Yeah, I believe experts estimate that quantum error correction is about 40-50 years away. I also read a really interesting paper saying it might be impossible due to some yet unknown physical law. The

I did find a Java library for Hive, but it seemed to be woefully out of date. I will dig up the link and comment it here.

There are already some quantum resistant encryption techniques, and if we use quantum mechanics itself to perform encryption we then have something provably unbreakable. It's just a question of whether