We just updated our smartcontract-ui to the safe version of @ethersproject (ethers.js 4.0.40).
Smartcontract-ui is part of our Play editor, but can also be used standalone. We build hyper modular.
UI:
https://t.co/if6DwvM9ov
Full editor:
https://t.co/eEY63ylwvh
The real problem is that a public archive gives visibility upwards, exposing the changing lies of our rulers.
They want visibility to only be one way: downwards. Thus they will know everything about you, but you will know nothing about them.
Techno-feudalism is coming.
I do enjoy pointing out that Andy Back had no idea what proof of work would ultimately be used for and still hasn't figured it out.
It is *not to prevent spam* - Satoshi didn't use it for that purpose at all. It is to make it difficult to rewrite history. That's all. You can still fill up the historical record with junk data if you want, the same way you can doodle on any ledger or journal. The point is that people can't (easily) go back and rewrite it after the fact - making doodles/junk data far more important to prevent in the first place due to the fact that they can't be gotten rid of and everyone has to verify and store them forever.
Early Bitcoin was characterized by an instinctive aversion to those who would use it as free cloud storage, everything was done to prevent it from occurring, and not once did anyone cite irrelevant aspects of Bitcoin like the network imposed difficulty required to mine a block or the limit of block sizes as being sufficient or even somehow related to prevention of spam.
It should be extremely obvious to all that the highly lauded cypherpunks in this space are attempting to put Proof of Work back in the anti-spam category where it laid dead as a mechanism for fixing email until Satoshi realized that it could be used usefully to solve a different problem entirely while spam remained an unsolved problem that would be countered on a best-effort basis and treated as a moving target like it is on every other protocol.
@mbauwens There is a huge difference between knowledge of a monetary system and knowledge of finance.
Most people who hear about bitcoin and bought it are ignorant to any stories at all. Most people deeply familiar with the bitcoin mechanics do not care about stories.
@mbauwens What a nonsense. If anything it proofs the financial and economic illiteracy of the author.
just as cryptography does not gain value because of the story telling surrounding it, bitcoin doesnt gain its value from the trivia and story telling surrounding it.
@mbauwens Its the epstein class.
Any system will only behave according to incentives and ppl would brainstorm about incentives and approve changes based on it when the number of participants is diverse and anonymously large.
Representatives, no matter if blue or red or other colors arent
@mbauwens seems to be working exactly as it was supposed to work.
bitcoin is for the people, not for big corporate miners. let them bugger off.
bitcoin also doesnt need to waste so much energy to work no matter how loud some clueless self proclaimed experts yell it from the roofs
@rikarends how do you use it?
do you sandbox it oe use it in a browser IDE?
...or you just hope it doesnt delete or changerandom data from/on your machine?
Core culture and ideas is slowly turning Bitcoin into a big clunky conglomerate that goes out of its way to compete with Shitcoins that pose no threat to Bitcoin.
Knots culture and ideas plays to Bitcoin's strength & competitive advantage as Sound Money.
Run Knots + BIP-110✊
@mbauwens nothing in or around ethereum is decentralized and thats baked into its culture DNA, so its basically impossible to build any form of opposition against controversial changes. Nobody has opinions anyway and ppl are selected based on this.
Decentralized exists only in branding
@mbauwens imho its the only way.
open source p2p software needs to support the organizational form and it requires stopping to use their (billionaires class) money (they can print it) as well. ...replace it with open source momey nobody can print
@mbauwens ...everything else is not in realistic realm and will forever stay unfeasible theory and discussing it seems a waste of time ...just like time travel to the pasf as a foundation for a new system would be.
its interesting for entertaining and inspiring books, but thats it sadly
@mbauwens it needs to be mechanisms that form a coherent system that can be started by the few and permissionlessly joined by those who learn about it and agree until eventually everyone in the world learns about the growing network and its rules/mechanics and joins voluntarily
@TiberiusB Checkout this summary - watch at 2x speed if needed:
https://t.co/5yt1RqlxfI
The settlement phase just started - this is live now:
https://t.co/DKDpgvcc3x