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    Ethereum Would you support a hard fork that obsceletes ETH ASICs?

    March 28, 2018

    Ethereum Would you support a hard fork that obsceletes ETH ASICs?

    Would you support a hard fork that obsceletes ETH ASICs?

    Posted: 28 Mar 2018 11:36 AM PDT

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    Posted: 28 Mar 2018 05:26 AM PDT

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    Posted: 28 Mar 2018 03:44 AM PDT

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    Posted: 28 Mar 2018 05:43 AM PDT

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    Posted: 28 Mar 2018 10:13 AM PDT

    Just implemented ETH deposits/withdrawal on our site... see what we like most in ETH compared to BTC/LTC and how we solved implementation pains.

    Posted: 28 Mar 2018 04:41 AM PDT

    Hi Ethereum Community!

    We've been working for almost 2 months to bring ETH deposits and withdrawals to our dice site and we finally went live yesterday. Our site already supported BTC and LTC, but adding ETH was quite a difficult task.

    We decided to use Parity as our wallet. I usually work low-level and I did not want to use any 3rd party service. Without doubts ETH is still difficult to handle for merchants, but we were able to solve most of the issues. I'll try to outline a few, maybe it will help someone trying to do a similar thing:

    1. First, should we create contracts to accept user deposits? Should everyone have a separate contract/account? We decided to generate a separate account (address) for every user. We are talking thousands of users, so we did not want to deploy a contract for each of them. Instead, we create HD-derived addresses and we add them to Parity when a user requests his ETH deposit address.

      • This costs us nothing (in terms of gas).
      • It's simple from the user's perspective (just sending coins to an address, no extra data in tx)

    2. Then, how do we detect incoming transactions? Since we don't use contracts, we have to solve the problem of detecting transactions to any of thousands of deposit addresses (Parity accounts). Etherscan could help, but it's a 3rd party service and there is a rate limit. It's not that difficult after all, here's what we are doing: we are parsing every block (eth_newBlockFilter and eth_getFilterChanges), we scan all the transactions and we pick up these that send to one of our deposit addresses. One of the issues is that we cannot (yet) automatically detect transactions originating from a contract.

    3. How do we send withdrawals? It's different than with BTC -- in ETH you cannot combine multiple inputs to form a single transaction. So if someone requests a 10 ETH withdrawal, there must be an account with balance at least (10 + fee) ETH. We simply scan our addresses (hot wallet and deposit addresses) and pick one. If no such address exists, we need to aggregate coins, i.e. send enough coins to a single account so that a withdrawal can be made from this account.

    Honestly it wasn't easy. I really hate the idea of scanning blocks, but this does not consume too much CPU at all. In the beginning our code also processed all pending transactions (via eth_newPendingTransactionFilter) and we displayed them to the user, but for some reason this did not work well in Foundation, maybe due to tx volume.

    Working with ETH was super-fun. I definitely like the concept of gas, uncle blocks, FAST blocks. I like the idea that we don't have to bother with UTXOs. But on the other hand UTXOs are dead simple to work with, give a clear view what's confirmed and what's not.

    Other than that, both Geth and Parity give an impression of much modern solutions than Bitcoin-like wallets. Ethereum itself seems clearly a next-gen chain.

    Still, I think ETH is awesome, but for a merchant it's really, really painful. I hope that merchant solutions emerge that would help integrating ETH.

    Cheers, Ethan

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    Posted: 28 Mar 2018 10:57 AM PDT

    Growing list of web3 mobile browsers

    Posted: 28 Mar 2018 05:15 PM PDT

    How many of you are browsing this with a dapp ready browser? Thus far we have a number of web3 browsers..they include chat and texting features on top of basic wallet and dapp browsing functions, come preloaded with erc721 collectibles and other dapp bookmarks feel free to add to growing list. Which are more decentralized, secure and reliable?

    Mist r.i.p.

    Cipher my fave,

    Status . .

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    Trying to get some clarity on the ASIC mining question

    Posted: 28 Mar 2018 06:09 PM PDT

    I consider myself a moderately experienced Ethereum user, but I am certainly not a developer. As such, I would appreciate some clarification on the ASIC mining question from the folks in the community who would actually be responsible for implementing the algorithm change, since this would likely influence my decision.

    My questions are as follows:

    • Realistically, how close are we to implementing full-scale Proof-of-Stake (the kind that removes mining completely)? If it's 3 months away, then I don't really care. But if it's 1 year+ then I care a whole lot more.

    • How trivial (or non-trivial) is it to implement a new mining algorithm that will offer comparable returns to current GPU miners? If this can be done reliably in 1-4 weeks, then I'd say go for it, but if it's going to make the network more unstable, or cause potentially unseen problems, then maybe not...

    • Finally, a plea to the community from myself: can we please keep this separate from other fork issues like issuance adjustment or unfreezing of locked funds or whatever else? I understand there is value in lumping hard-fork changes together, but this seems to me to potentially be a big enough issue to deserve its own fork. I become extremely frustrated in politics when I see things like education reform and gun control being lumped into the same bill, when they are clearly separate issues that I have separate opinions on.

    The answers to these questions would really help clarify my position on an anti-ASIC fork, and I imagine would do so for other users as well. Thank you.

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    Bitmain Ready To Launch Ethereum Miner; Mining Landscape Changing

    Posted: 28 Mar 2018 12:43 PM PDT

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    Posted: 28 Mar 2018 10:12 AM PDT

    This might be a dumb question, but after Casper, who provides the computing power for DApps?

    Posted: 28 Mar 2018 12:35 AM PDT

    The first implementation of Casper will, if I understood correctly, be a bridge between PoS and PoW, but the eventual goal will be full PoS, which makes miners redundant. Or is the kind of mining that makes DApps possible something else entirely, like a decentralized service offering that's seperate from the blockchain consensus building?

    As you can see I'm kinda lost here, any clarification is appreciated.

    Edit: Great answers, thanks guys.

    submitted by /u/samurai_scrub
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    Posted: 28 Mar 2018 05:37 PM PDT

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    Posted: 28 Mar 2018 05:27 AM PDT

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    Posted: 28 Mar 2018 02:38 PM PDT

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    Posted: 28 Mar 2018 04:58 PM PDT

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    Posted: 28 Mar 2018 07:45 PM PDT

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    Posted: 28 Mar 2018 07:26 AM PDT

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    Posted: 28 Mar 2018 06:25 PM PDT

    Ethereum volatility vs. Casper

    Posted: 28 Mar 2018 06:56 AM PDT

    Can Ethereum volatility play against the Casper proof-of-stake protocol? Getting a deposit slashed might not be that effective when USD/ETH ratio is very low

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    Ripple & Ethereum Donations: The Social Side of Cryptos

    Posted: 28 Mar 2018 04:29 PM PDT
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