Edmund Edgar @edmundedgar@mastodon.social

The way trading fees in Augur respond to rising open interest or falling REP value feels a bit death-spiral-y, am I wrong???
https://www.reddit.com/r/Augur/comments/8somhe/what_drives_the_value_of_rep_tokens_if_the/e12sk0z/

EOS collected funds for their Ethereum-killer on Ethereum. Would you collect funds for your EOS-killer on EOS?

So America is reneging on the Iran nuclear deal. The rest of the world thinks the deal's still on.

How far does America go cutting itself off from banks that deal with (...banks that deal with banks that etc) Iran?

So if America is reneging on the nuclear deal and is trying to ban trading with Iran again, while the rest of the world thinks the deal's still on, how far does America go cutting itself off from banks that deal with (...banks that deal with etc) Iran

To keep our cocaine-fuelled triumphalism under control I hope if the #flippening happens it's "ETH crashes somewhat less than BTC" rather than just ETH going up uP UP

So if your exchange loses your crypto and pays you back in Yen, do you have to pay tax on the gain as if you'd sold it?

Coincheck funds apparently have a taint so other exchanges won't take them, and you can't spend them because nobody uses NEM. What happens next, if the players are rational, is the hackers sell the NEM back to Coincheck for maybe half their recent VC raise, in Zerocash or Monero

Next step: Make a PAM module where the log in requires you to send money to an address, see if anyone still wants to try brute-forcing your SSH server

Honeypot contract: Looks like you can steal from it by sending it money, in fact it steals your money
https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/34651/solidity-security

I remember when people used to advocate renewable energy the skeptics would say "but you'd need to cover x% of land in solar panels", thinking they were making a statement of impossibility, when in fact they were describing an excellent medium-term real estate play

Kind of imagine the crypto markets as this one guy who doesn't know much about it and every now and then someone randomly pitches him on different coin and he's like WOW THAT IS SO COOL

Non-nerd asking me how to sell their bitcoins. Backlogged chain makes the old wait-for-confirmations-in-cafe method tricky. Guess the solution is to shapeshift to Bitcoin Cash or ETH in advance at your leisure, then if the buyer wants Bitcoin they shapeshift back. #DigitalGold

TPP, but no Americans, so no IP chapter, no new statutory monopolies. Should have done it this way to begin with. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/11/11/business/11-states-reach-accord-implementing-tpp-without-u-s-tokyo-vows-keep-prodding-trump/#.WgZXBOBUsgY

Have been in the US for a few days, striking how much regular local news, normal non-Fox media etc is about glorifying the military

So if Ethereum does a bailout fork and I oppose that but I also dislike the ETC PoW-maximalist bonkers, which should I fork, ETH or ETC?

If Gavin Wood misunderstood how delegatecall works, probably a lot of other people misunderstood how delegatecall works. Stand by for wave 2

Proposed response to the parity wallet fail: Stop, slow down and think about it for a bit

uh oh he's got a new paradigm
#devcon3

#devcon3 climate change project presentations, emotional slalom between "this is ludicrous techbroism" and "holy shit this is awesome"

"I generally don't like to add things to this world which is already a mess" - @pirapira on language design #devcon3