Kiwidog4

@kiwidog

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PSA: Blockchains are *NOT* decentralized, immutable, permanent, transparent, verifiable, resilient, democratic or fair, or other misused buzzwords. Sure, they can be a couple of those things depending on the blockchain, but not a fundamental property of blockchains, even if they are these are much better accomplished by non-blockchain P2P/cryptographic systems. This is not "FUD", but to better leverage blockchains we must understand & be educated about its unique properties. Why do you think we get racist ponzis instead of useful apps? I have covered these topics at length over dozens of blog posts. The *only* unique property of blockchains is strict global consensus - a strictly ordered, objective set of txs in real-ish time. While very limited, this property is extremely valuable for extralegal financial transactions. You probably think I'm a blithering idiot, fair, but there's at least one other person who will tell you something similar: https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1743040410212053350/photo/1

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Any redistribution mechanism would need to be anti-sybil and anti-large actor. A combo we've yet to find a (non-centralized) solution for. Right? I feel like if we solve this, we improve so many areas (Airdrops, governance, wealth concentration and etc). What solutions are you looking at? Zk?

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Blockchains are just another centralizing tool, with the default outcome significantly worse than traditional incumbents - removing all the democratic checks and balances, replacing them with grotesque plutocratic control It takes significant will and effort for a blockchain to realise its decentralizing potential

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I don't think I agree with this take. We should be hypercritical while we are building. If we wait until everything is built, that's too late. Even if people don't have the answer, they should speak up. Crypto has a genuine lack of knowledgeable critics compared to intentionally blind fans.

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How many of those tried to give to all solo/home stakers past the merge? I've been noticing that many protocols don't reward those who came in later which feels bad.

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An update: The fix didn't fully work. My RP node is still crashing, just less often. But when I shutdown the Hubble VM, RP is stable. :/ Still continuing to debug but will update when/if I find something. Sucks because I'd love to run both.

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Toni's conclusion "Implementing anti-correlation penalties is a great way to counter economies of scale without requiring the protocol to differentiate between individual validators." As a community, we'll never be able to save Ethereum from immature design, but we can buy time for researchers to harden the protocol.

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(unironically) Big daddy blackrock will make sure wall Street knows about ETH. They are going to be MUCH more interested in ETH once they learn about it.

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Interesting, I'll look into that. Again, thanks!

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That would be a good idea. In the docker-compose.yml I changed '3000:3000' to '4000:3000'. One thing to note is that, I believe, an update of the Hubble container version will reset this back to 3000.

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I finally got it working! Thanks again!

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BTC has memes while ETH has memes, yield and compute. I know which I'm more bullish on.

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Definitely, it is super useful. I unironically use bing now (with chatgpt 4). I did ask it how to help (it suggested looking at the system logs) but nothing stood out. The logs just abruptly end and then start again from when I turn the VM back on.

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I'll try that and report back later. Any recommended ports to try instead? 3001? Thanks! 🫡

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@superphiz.eth, or others running a rocketpool node and a farcaster Hubble node. Have you had any conflicts between them? My RP (Proxmox Ubuntu VM) keeps crashing after I started running the Hubble node (separate VM). Pausing Hubble fixes it. RP system and kernel logs have nothing. Could it be a grafana conflict?

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Gotta get that 99 agility!

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Home validator for maximum decentralization and UPS for maximum anti-fragility (wifi included)! Now I just need to get to cable management for maximum cleanliness.

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UPS for node and Wifi along with my home server/validator.

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Thanks, I like that perspective. As a side question, how do you find the things that interest you? Like what platform or media? Crypto is such an attention game that I find it often overwhelming. I don't like Twitter and YouTube is often sketchy. I watch the classic, Daily Gwei and Bankless but what else is there?

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What are your favorite crypto games that are actually fun?

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