The metaverse isn’t a real thing.
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420.69 ETH isn’t cool, you know what is? 696969.69 ETH
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Worst thing about Ethereum jail is how much gas you have to pay to go there.
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That gas is no joke, I thought I’d be cool and buy a neat gif on OpenSea and then found out the gas was 6 times as much as the gif and now I’m sad.
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Do you know what the gas is going to be before you pull the trigger?
Didn’t someone put a small child porn image into the btc blockchain a few years ago? I seem to recall that and all that came of it was bitcoin haters frothing for a day or two.
The appearance of the images prompted police to investigate. Bitcoinfiles.org has since closed the blockchain browsing service.
In addition, Money Button has banned the user that uploaded the material.
It has also put in place filtering systems to spot when anyone tries to upload similar content. Money Button is part-funded by nChain.
This is a pretty good, circumspect overview of everything that’s going on. Worth the read for haters who can still be a bit open minded.
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My initial/near-term skepticism over Web3 comes from many of the prominent business models being either based upon middlemen taking exorbitant fees or recreating the existing fucked up financial system/increasing financialization which kind of seems like the opposite of what it is supposed to be doing.
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Read the Vox article and I think this is what I’m seeing a lot of too.
I still see very little about Crypto that fulfills the promise of true decentralization or a truly different way of making the world work, and I see a lot more of “Hey you know how those guys got rich? Let’s do what they did… but crypto… so I can get rich!”
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I feel like this might be the sign we were all looking for that we really have entered late stage capitalism.
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This seems like kind of a catastrophe? Who is actually out this money?
Also - maybe open source isn’t the best idea for something like this?
https://twitter.com/samczsun/status/1489044939732406275
https://twitter.com/samczsun/status/1489044994363121668
https://twitter.com/DedmundFitzgrld/status/1489092664146415622
I mean:
The if statement is the $300M fix. So now you just have to find the right key to feed to check_id. Maybe someone one the inside can help. Unless that just won’t work because of how blockchain works or something.
Hacker News discussion also had this fascinating story:
The Dark Forest is my favorite science fiction book. It introduces the concept of a “dark forest” — an environment in which detection means certain death at the hands of advanced predators. In this environment, publicly identifying someone else’s location is as good as directly destroying them. (This concept is also the inspiration for the Dark Forest game on the Ethereum testnet.)
In the Ethereum mempool, these apex predators take the form of “arbitrage bots.” Arbitrage bots monitor pending transactions and attempt to exploit profitable opportunities created by them. No white hat knows more about these bots than Phil Daian, the smart contract researcher who, along with his colleagues, wrote the Flash Boys 2.0 paper and coined the term “miner extractable value” (MEV).
Phil once told me about a cosmic horror that he called a “generalized frontrunner.” Arbitrage bots typically look for specific types of transactions in the mempool (such a DEX trade or an oracle update) and try to frontrun them according to a predetermined algorithm. Generalized frontrunners look for any transaction that they could profitably frontrun by copying it and replacing addresses with their own. They can even execute the transaction and copy profitable internal transactions generated by its execution trace.
That was why this rescue wasn’t going to be simple. This
burnfunction could be called by anyone. If I submitted a transaction callingburn, it would be like a flashing “free money” sign pointing directly at this profitable opportunity. If these monsters were really in the mempool, they would see, copy, mutate, and frontrun my transaction, taking the money before my transaction was included.Note how much more brutal this environment is than even the Ethereum blockchain state itself. This free money had been sitting on-chain for about eight hours, undetected, waiting to be swept by anyone who called
burn. But any attempt to pick it up would get instantly sniped in-flight.
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