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gametorch commented on A large number of protocols on Ethereum and Solana blockchains have no revenue   coindesk.com/markets/2025... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
daft_pink · 14 days ago
You’d think that smart contracts would have very high levels of inactivity and once you create a smart contract it’s impractical for it to be depracated.
gametorch · 14 days ago
Smart contracts are deprecated all the time and you can even recoup the Solana you posted as rent to upload the smart contract initially.

Think about it this way: 99% of these protocols are DeFi related. In all of those protocols, you ultimately have makers and takers, regardless of whether the protocol is literally an orderbook or an AMM (automated market maker) or something else entirely. The point is, you have two sides: someone making and someone taking. But blockchains, even the fastest ones, are still multiple orders of magnitude slower than TradFi. We're talking milliseconds vs nanoseconds. Remember, there's three orders of magnitude of microseconds between the two also. Anyways, it's basically impossible to update your quotes fast enough as a market maker on a blockchain to not get picked off. It's hard enough to do this in TradFi nanosecond land, let alone on chain. Yes, there are differences. Yes, it's nuanced. But market making on chain is fundamentally very hard and 99.9% of people who try, fail, or they "succeed" but eventually realize they would've made more by just bagholding the collateral they posted to make markets. So the liquidity (market makers) in all of these protocols eventually dries up. At which point the protocol is useless because no taker can come and trade. At which point the protocol is abandoned. At which point, if deployed immutably (this is the only truly trustless way), there's nothing you can do. If NOT deployed immutably, you can just close the program and recoup the money, could be thousands of dollars, you posted as rent to upload it in the first place.

gametorch commented on A large number of protocols on Ethereum and Solana blockchains have no revenue   coindesk.com/markets/2025... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
Animats · 14 days ago
Blockchains store data as long as someone, somewhere has a node. There's no way to purge old data. So old, useless data does build up.

It's not that bad, though. The Ethereum chain is about 1.4TB right now.[1] Growth is roughly linear. Bitcoin is under half a terabyte. Those are manageable numbers given current disk sizes.

The size of the Solana blockchain is claimed to be only 10MB. That's tiny. Where is the data stored?

From the article: "Parts of this article were generated with the assistance from AI tools and reviewed by our editorial team to ensure accuracy and adherence to our standards." Right. That's Coinbase trolling for clicks.

[1] https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethereum_chain_full_sync_data...

gametorch · 14 days ago
You can absolutely "delete" a protocol if you own the Solana program.

It's not deleted in the sense that all of its history is still on the blockchain. But it is deleted in the sense that the account storing the Solana program no longer exists / is empty and you cannot interact with it. In fact, if you haven't immutably deployed a Solana program, you are heavily incentivized to delete it if it is unused, because then you can recoup the Solana you posted as rent to upload the program in the first place.

gametorch commented on Installing a mini-split AC in a Brooklyn apartment   probablydance.com/2025/08... · Posted by u/ibobev
bluGill · 15 days ago
Locksmiths won't do that in general - even if they know how. Picking makes it look easy - not only can they not justify their bill but also people ask if locks provide any security and that is bad for business.
gametorch · 15 days ago
I watched a locksmith pick someone's apartment door in 10 seconds and then charge them $80. Then everyone commented on how easy it looked and the locksmith was very friendly about it.
gametorch commented on Installing a mini-split AC in a Brooklyn apartment   probablydance.com/2025/08... · Posted by u/ibobev
hbarka · 15 days ago
Old brownstone apartments probably had poor insulation. Add to it that Brooklyn electricity charges are much higher than the New York average.
gametorch · 15 days ago
If they're paying $1000/month at 30c/kWh, they could quite nearly run the latest over-the-counter bitcoin miner 24/7 with that amount of electricity usage.

They have terrible insulation.

gametorch commented on Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie   alexharri.com/blog/icelan... · Posted by u/alexharri
treetalker · 23 days ago
I remember that when I was first learning Spanish in high school, I found a piece of (Windows) software that pelted you with a series of pairs of an infinitive and a tense, and you had to conjugate the infinitive accordingly. (Spanish conjugation typically changes the end of the word; irregular verbs tend to involve stem changes). It was fantastic practice and really ingrained the rules; I became a whiz at it.

When I started learning Russian, the declensions (like the ones mentioned in the article) really threw me for a loop. I looked all over for a similar app to explain the patterns and drill rote practice, but never found one.

While slightly off-topic, does anyone know of such an app (web-based or macOS/iOS)?

gametorch · 23 days ago
I used Clozemaster effectively to learn Russian. It's not exactly what out describe, but you can fly through many "clozes" to ingrain the patterns into your brain.
gametorch commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
gametorch · a month ago
https://gametorch.app

It's an AI video game sprite animator.

gametorch commented on Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth   twitter.com/premqnair/sta... · Posted by u/rfurmani
anonym29 · a month ago
The trick is to rent cheap and live like a college student in SF/bay area while young, save aggressively, invest intelligently, then move somewhere comfortable but more affordable (CO's front range is lovely) for your 30s/40s.
gametorch · a month ago
I'm so so so glad I didn't spend my twenties working and saving.

I've lived a thousand lives, spent most of the time as true quality time with people I love, and I still have a few years left in this decade of my life.

And I'm still further ahead, financially speaking, than >99% of other people my age. (To those asking, I tripled down on life after getting a remote job.)

The one year I spent 9-5 in an office as a traditional SWE was by far the quickest and least eventful year of my life. Also probably the saddest.

I'm very glad I just said "no" and walked away and simply lived. It was absolutely worth the risk. I would never trade these years for the ability to buy a house in the Bay Area suburbs.

I probably will be able to do that anyways, if I want to, even though I don't.

gametorch commented on Psilocybin treatment extends cellular lifespan, improves survival of aged mice   news.emory.edu/stories/20... · Posted by u/atombender
tpm · a month ago
Agreed. I have bought it legally from a reputable vendor in a country where it was legal at the time (and possibly still is), so I wasn't worried, but ideally some independent authority would do the testing on each batch and post it for everyone to check.
gametorch · a month ago
That would be ideal.

I also considered making my own. But then I thought that rolling your own chemistry could prove to be more fatal than rolling your own cryptography.

gametorch commented on Psilocybin treatment extends cellular lifespan, improves survival of aged mice   news.emory.edu/stories/20... · Posted by u/atombender
tpm · a month ago
Exactly, pure chemicals are the way to go.
gametorch · a month ago
There's no way for the average person to know it only contains 4-aco-dmt though.

I did 4-aco-dmt multiple times in high school.

Luckily, I just tripped and was grateful to be alive on the other side.

At least half, if not 15 out of 20 of my friends went completely into psychosis and a good majority of those people had persistent negative symptoms for weeks after.

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