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It occurred to me that no one is talking about one of the craziest most bonkers metric in crypto: the average spend per user. For businesses looking to build on Ethereum, this is an important metric. So let's look at an example that's turning some heads.

For those that have been asleep for the past year, Gods Unchained is a free-to-play trading card game built on Ethereum where players download the game and start playing right away. No need to buy anything. You don't even need an Ethereum wallet, at least not until you decide to start trading the [rewards](https:/

Social media is usually crawling with bad arguments for why people think ETH is overvalued. Often people try to reply with good counter arguments, but it's not always easy to summarize these things into a few sentences. I thought I'd collect all of it in one place and condense them as best I could.

EEA Hype

Argument: People bought because they assumed brand name companies would use Ethereum public chain, an assumption which has not been substantiated.

Counter-Argument: Remarks in May of 2018 by EEA have suggested that enterprises are seeing the need to eventually connect their private chains to the Ethereum mainnet. This is then reflected in the new EEA roadmap that shows how t

Posted this in the daily, but thought it would be helpful to have as its own thread.

There's often discussion about the claims from new and unreleased networks (e.g. EOS, ADA, ZIL, etc). The latest today was a big announcement by Hashgraph (link). I took a quick look, here's what I found so far:

PROS

• Hashgraph's Hedera network will be a very fast and provably fair DAG network that uses proof of stake.

• it will use a patented algorithm that makes it different (better?) than other DAG networks like Byteball and NANO. From an investor's perspective, this is attractive since it limits natural competition.

CONS

• Token will be distributed in a

As reported on the day of the attack, the malicious child DAO aka “The Dark DAO” was located at 0x304a554a310c7e546dfe434669c62820b7d83490

Obviously this address is now empty on the forked chain (since retaking the stolen ETH was the goal of the fork). But now the address is also empty on the unforked chain (aka Ethereum Classic). http://gastracker.io/addr/0x304a554a310c7e546dfe434669c62820b7d83490

There's no decent block explorer for the unforked chain, so it rests on a sufficiently interested developer to inspect the blockchain directly for details of what happened. If anyone has the time, it would be very inte

Gotta say, this is actually really convenient, since you don't need to synch a whole other blockchain on another computer just to sell the free ETC in your old wallets.

Athens championed democracy and continual discussion in search of making wise decisions.

Sparta championed unwavering strength by adhering to its ancient principles and traditions.

What do you want Ethereum to be? Will it be a dynamic platform that can collectively self-critique? Or will it be a static platform that believes itself infallible by decree?

We're barely a year into this experiment. Our principles are derived from a previous experiment that is itself unresolved after eight years. Have we really reached the point in crypto history where we can sit back and hope that Ethereum will just prosper on the strength of its principles alone?

Edit: shortened last sentence

It's great seeing the return of posts about stuff people are working on. We could use more frequent reminders that despite all the fears, there's still a new world being built.

Introduction There are many reasons why people feel passionately about forking or not forking, but I think the loss (or preservation) of immutability is very high on many people’s list of concerns. I’ve tried to read all the comments from the past 6 days, including the heavily down-voted ones, and I think the issue of immutability is the common ground that everyone (roughly) agrees is important. So let me try to assess the general sentiment in this sub. I may be wrong, but its worth giving this a shot anyways.

My (current) assessment is that the present divide in the community stems (roughly) from people not agreeing on how strict we should be about preserving immutability in precisely

I didn't see this coming.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429982.300-will-remotecontrolled-robots-clean-you-out-of-a-job.html

Drones and semi-autonomous household robots could be made to be controllable from a tablet or smartphone. Distributed markets for drone operators, some of them living in mud huts with nothing more than solar power and mesh-networks, could be very competitive! You could hire multiple operators (for pennies/per-minute) to simultaneously operate your drone (instructions are executed when two or more operators agree). You don't need to trust the operators if they're selected randomly from a pool. Payment in bitcoin. Multi-sig w/ arbitrator to handle accidents a