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mattbeckman commented on MetaMask now has over 8M users   chrome.google.com/webstor... · Posted by u/omarfarooq
TicklishTiger · 4 years ago
Is any one of these 8 million here?

I would love to hear what people do with it.

mattbeckman · 4 years ago
I imagine the audience crossover between crypto and HN is quite high.
mattbeckman commented on MetaMask now has over 8M users   chrome.google.com/webstor... · Posted by u/omarfarooq
arcticbull · 4 years ago
I guess a lot of people want to spend $200 in gas fees to buy a URL to a JPEG that comes with no rights whatsoever to the image itself. What a time to be alive.

Maybe I was wrong, maybe the Fed's loose monetary policy has gone too far after all haha.

mattbeckman · 4 years ago
BAYC gave rights to NFT owners, and that's why they became the example. Larva Labs / Punks is doing it wrong IMO.
mattbeckman commented on SafeDollar ‘stablecoin’ drops to $0 following DeFi exploit on Polygon   cryptoslate.com/safedolla... · Posted by u/awb
throwaway4good · 5 years ago
The problem here is really Ethereum and the language Solidity. Chuck full of gotchas and completely horrible to work with.

The mechanics of stable coins is really trivial and thusly should be trivial to implement and validate. Unfortunately it is not, and it is sad that the hype and investment rush inside the broader crypto field does not foster languages and platforms that actually are suitable for the few realworld use cases that exists inside crypto.

mattbeckman · 5 years ago
EOS tried to use on-chain Ricardian Contracts and pair that with upgradeable smart contracts in C++ with DPoS consensus so that intent-of-code could be enforced. That's pretty "real world" but most people feel it's not unstoppable enough.

Ethereum is pretty unstoppable, but unless you use a contract proxy, your contracts are immutable and bugs that can be exploited will be exploited.

mattbeckman commented on All Hail King Pokémon   inputmag.com/features/kin... · Posted by u/nomoreplease
mattbeckman · 5 years ago
Pokemon will enter the NFT digital collectibles space, and it would be absolute crazy if they don't already have a team working on it.

All of these collectors are making assumptions based on information other collectors have shared about "how many are known to exist" etc., whereas NFTs are provably scarce and they never get scuffed up.

mattbeckman commented on Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Conference   mashable.com/article/rsa-... · Posted by u/wglb
billytetrud · 5 years ago
There's a difference between making royalties for distribution of copies of an item and making royalties for transferring a single item from one person to another. One makes sense, the other is a weird misleading way to rent to people.
mattbeckman · 5 years ago
Transfers are not necessarily sales.

Transaction fees for the Topps MLB cards on WAX, for example, are only taken during the sale when the sale occurs on a secondary Atomic Asset marketplace. There are no royalties to trade or transfer between accounts.

mattbeckman commented on Self-Hosting Still Pays   servethehome.com/falling-... · Posted by u/emperor_
mattbeckman · 5 years ago
Our small team spends roughly $40-50k/mo at AWS. If you're just hosting a website with a SQL database (glorified LAMP stack), you're probably in it for the wrong reasons. Stick to a dedicated box or DigitalOcean etc.

AWS is like co-locating your hardware, and then the data center having 1000s of employees offering highly reliable services you can access from your infrastructure that lets you move WAY faster for things that are hard to do.

e.g. Discussion today was increasing log retention. 10 years ago I would have run the numbers, extended some SAN volumes, considered procuring more NetApp shelves, etc.

Today it's simply a cost question: is it worth it to us to store those logs for 10x longer? Sure? Ok, done.

mattbeckman commented on Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys   blog.cryptographyengineer... · Posted by u/Reventlov
mattbeckman · 5 years ago
As we head into the post-truth era, we already know videos are going to become far less trusted due to deep fake tech. Finding grains of truth through cryptography, like DKIM, is so refreshing that it hurts to think some people want to cripple it.

The Hunter Biden email is a good example.

I initially thought it was a garbage tabloid drop, but once I read Rob Graham's analysis, it felt very refreshing to have a real nugget of truth based on math. While the context of that content is up for debate, the truth was essentially undeniable (unless you subscribe to the 2016 private key being stolen).

We need nuggets of truth.

mattbeckman commented on 91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018)   nationalgeographic.com/ne... · Posted by u/adrian_mrd
aforwardslash · 5 years ago
They did. The plastics industry sinked millions in campaigns to convince the people plastics are reclyclable. The only thing missing from being a true Musk move is that they came up with it themselves, instead of buying off the idea from someone else.
mattbeckman · 5 years ago
You know that's not what I meant.

Let's chat again when you've executed and launched five unique revolutionary companies.

mattbeckman commented on 91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018)   nationalgeographic.com/ne... · Posted by u/adrian_mrd
mattbeckman · 5 years ago
If someone was to Elon Musk the shi* out of this problem, what would they build or do differently?

My gut is that it would focus on plastic identification automation, but not positive.

mattbeckman commented on Searchable PPP Loan Data   pppreport.org/... · Posted by u/lgats
mattbeckman · 5 years ago
You can get a $5-10 Million loan for 14 employees at a nail salon?

https://pppreport.org/company/snappy+nails+s+p+a+9+inc

Damn.

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