How to send $ETH in 19 lines of Python

Is there a good replacement for hackernews? The crypto-skepticism that derails every single thread even tangentially related to crypto currency has totally undermined my desire to participate in this community. It appears the "hackers" have moved on.

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zenlot · 5 years ago

Yes, it's called lobste.rs. Yet they started suffering from the same 'too sensitive SF crowd lenses', where they see the world with their very narrow view and anything that's not in their narrow space - will be of course downvoted. I kinda miss old groups where you would be able to read "not so popular" comments, without damaging your eyes due to them being greyed out, or without a need to select it to see the text. HN crowd is very specific, in a bad way.

dang · 5 years ago

If you click on the timestamp of a downvoted comment, it should go to a page where the text is fully readable. Yes it's an extra hop, but that's a small price to pay for an immune system.

ASalazarMX · 5 years ago

Lobste.rs is a club where the bouncers are extremely selective over who is allowed to come in and partake, only to find most tables are empty.

ASalazarMX · 5 years ago

That's because many of us are skeptical of the current cryptohype. I'm sure many innovative things will come out of all these experiments, but right now, it feels like many people are taking the opportunity to con other people into using real money to buy their virtual money brand.

If you want a cryptocurrency-friendly forum, the r/CryptoCurrency subreddit would be ideal.

RKearney · 5 years ago

I wish the software engineering community would stop with the click-bait headlines.

Write a game in 2 lines of Python:

    import MonolithicGameSDK
    MonolithicGameSDK.run()

f38zf5vdt · 5 years ago

201X+ headlines in general. Title should be changed to "I imported a python library and used it without throwing an Exception, and so can you!"

secondcoming · 5 years ago

Click-bait Headlines Considered Harmful

sbassi · 5 years ago

This is misleading, the code doesn't send the $ETH, it's calling a third party API (infura) to do it

kolinko · 5 years ago

You can do the same with a local client, just call localhost instead of Infura.

You need to install an Ethereum client locally of course, but it’s pretty straightforward.

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zionic · 5 years ago

ofek · 5 years ago

Pretty neat! I wrote and now co-maintain a library that has similar ease-of-use for Bitcoin: https://github.com/ofek/bit

Even fewer LoC :)

willio58 · 5 years ago

Is there any word on if browsers (chrome, firefox, or safari) will support crypocurrency transactions so I don't have to download a 3rd party plugin?

sickygnar · 5 years ago

brave is bundled with metamask. its not technically native, but it works very nicely.

sorenrood · 5 years ago

I wrote a Replit tutorial on sending Ethererum from wallet to wallet in Python. It takes only 19 lines of code and is super easy to set up!

iso8859-1 · 5 years ago

How do you test it? I'd like to test without depending on some remote service, which could be unreliable.

leugim · 5 years ago

You can create your own local eth network (i.e: with https://www.trufflesuite.com/ganache)

I link to the test transaction at the bottom of the post!

topicseed · 5 years ago

You can connect to the testnet and use the faucet.

agumonkey · 5 years ago

wait, replit doesn't have memberless repls ? how much did it change since the last year..