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    Ethereum Would You Like to See Vitalik Speak in Toronto this September?

    February 25, 2019

    Ethereum Would You Like to See Vitalik Speak in Toronto this September?

    Would You Like to See Vitalik Speak in Toronto this September?

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 02:14 PM PST

    Hi all,

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    My name is Patrick and I work for a tech & innovation festival based in Toronto called Elevate (elevatetechfest.com). My role at the company is to hunt for the biggest names in tech and convince them to come speak at our festival. As a crypto enthusiast, Vitalik was the first person that came to mind when I thought of the person I'd like to hear speak most.

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    I'm wondering if anybody from this sub has any interest in having Vitalik speak in Toronto this September? I'm hoping that through this post, I can demonstrate to Vitalik that the Ethereum community would like to see him do more speaking engagements. I know he gets these types of offers all the time, but I think it's pretty rare the engagement is in his home town.

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    Any interest, Ethereum Community?

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    Any thoughts, u/vbuterin?

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    Edit: Thanks for the support, everybody! I really appreciate your help getting this to the top of r/ethereum.

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    Blockchains are eating the world, just like software before it. Ethereum based services and tools are helping enterprises onboard to Ethereum quickly.

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 03:05 PM PST

    PSA on Moon Browser Extension

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 01:40 PM PST

    Dear members of the Ethereum community,

    TL;DR: Uninstall Moon, Revoke your Coinbase API Keys NOW and PROTECT YOUR ETHEREUM

    I was the co-founder and CTO at https://paywithmoon.com. Due to my discovery of the unethical business practices Moon Technologies, Inc. has been engaged in, I have left the company.

    As of today, the moon browser extension manipulates the DOM of the users' browsers to give them an augmented shopping experience, one that allows them to shop online with cryptocurrency. Over the past couple of months, my co-founder, Kenneth Kruger, has ordered the collection of data belonging to users as a way to improve customer experiences. No users have ever been asked explicitly if they would prefer to opt-out of tracking, a feature which I regularly insisted should be added. If you are a user and look under at terms and conditions stated under https://paywithmoon.com/terms-conditions/ (dated 26 Feb 2019), you will find the agreement hidden under one of the terms and conditions. This is a huge breach of GDPR and privacy laws that are meant to protect user data.

    From the moment a user installs the browser extension, the company will know exactly what pages are open on the user's browser, what the content of those pages are, and what the user is doing with them.

    The biggest and most alarming issue of all, is the process of collection of how the browser extension works in the backend - Coinbase API keys. From the moment the user initiates the connection between the company and Coinbase, the company watches for changes in the user's current window, waiting for the user to complete the one-time passcode (OTP) verification process as required by Coinbase. Once that is done, the company programatically clicks the required permissions (scopes) required to create the API key as it sees fit.

    The API key is then shown only once on the next screen, but the user does not know this (done via CSS manipulation). The company extracts the API keys into the backend, stored in plain text on the company's database on AWS. This is a definite security antipattern. This API key is then able to be used indefinitely until manually revoked by the individual user.

    When I asked Kenneth Kruger why we should not encrypt the keys or create recursively locking IAM policies to prevent anyone in the management team to have personal access to users' API keys, Kenneth Kruger constantly avoided or redirected the discussion and prevented me from building any kind of system that would protect users.

    Only two days ago, I have been locked out of my organization accounts including AWS and can no longer take preventive measures to protect users.

    If you are a user of our browser extension today, ***PLEASE*** you need to uninstall the browser extension via chrome://extensions and go into https://www.coinbase.com/settings/api and revoke ALL your API keys NOW.

    If you have not used the Moon browser extension, but know of a friend that might, please inform him or her to do so immediately.

    You can read more about my experience in another post here https://np.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/au668p/what_to_do_in_the_event_you_get_zuckerberged_in_a/.

    I had created Moon as I was crazy enough to think I was able to change the world with the single vision of bringing mass adoption to cryptocurrency, accelerating the future of the financial system. However, today is truly a sad day for crypto. Until we can find a way to completely decentralize and move away from the corporations, the no-accountability attitude and greed many executives possess, we cannot hope to bring forth the dream of cryptocurrency.

    Until we meet on the moon again, please be safe, not sorry,
    Alexander Ang

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    Interview with the MakerDAO dev who took out a DAI loan — from himself

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 07:26 AM PST

    https://decryptmedia.com/5344/be-your-own-bank-with-makerdao

    "When Mariano Conti wanted a loan for a new Ford Focus, he didn't go to a bank. Instead, he drew a loan from himself, leaving his assets with himself as collateral, before paying himself back out of his own salary.

    He was the bank. A one-man bank.

    Now he has a car."

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    EtherIndex (Ether ETF) Public Comment to the CFTC’s Request For Information on Ether and the Ethereum Network

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 05:54 AM PST

    New Aragon project public roadmap - see what's planned for DAOs on Ethereum!

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 10:35 AM PST

    How would you contend against Glen Weyl's prognosis that the "blockchain" is a dead end (at a technical level)?

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 10:24 AM PST

    In a recent episode of the 80000 Hours podcast, Glen Weyl made a number of critical remarks about the "blockchain" as a technical data structure, claiming it was inimical to his way of thinking.

    I find it strange a political economist of Weyl's caliber and influence would think he has the expertise to condemn the blockchain from a "technical" standpoint (not trying to dismiss his other remarks). Personally, I do believe his concerns are mostly fair and on point at the present time, but will ultimately turn out to be unfounded over the longer-term due to the selective disclosures which will be made possible by widespread adoption of efficient zero-knowledge protocols. Given Weyl's prominence in Ethereum land, it may be a good idea to provide him with some technical clarifications or counter-arguments. Anyone care to parse through his statements and offer their thoughts?

    Here's a slightly edited transcript of the relevant part of the interview:

    Robert Wiblin: What do you think are the biggest downsides of the crypto-community? I guess I only have a vague exposure to it and it seems to me that whatever group came up with Bitcoin are clearly geniuses and Vitalik Buterin, creator of Ethereum, is otherworldly I think in his insightfulness. But I guess it has also attracted a lot of over-confidence in people and people who are drawn in by the ideology more than anything else and I guess at the worst end there's all sorts of scammers and bullshit artists who see their chance to make a quick buck. Do you see them as damaging the community or overall it's still a very good group?

    Glen Weyl: I would say the technology that's currently called "blockchain", which has a bunch of different elements to it, is a dead end. I think it has very few applications if any where that's going to be the right kind of data structure to use. I also think it has very problematic social implications. I think the ideology instantiated by the actual technical protocols right now is dark and deeply problematic. There's a spectrum from a really intelligent person who has a good understanding of what's going on through deeply naive and somewhat like self-deluding deliberately because of potential greed and so forth issues through to outright scammers. If you ask where the center of gravity is in that, it's definitely in that latter end of the spectrum. So, there are like huge problems. However, capitalism has enormous problems, as I've been trying to say, and there's very little space in our society for seriously reconsidering that and for people to think boldly about these things. I think this is offering a space for that and that's extremely important.

    Robert Wiblin: You're completely confounding my plan for this interview. I thought you were going to explain how blockchain was going to be very useful and I was going to explain why I was skeptical about those applications. Ok, talk to me about the technical side, why do you think the blockchain is overrated or harmful overall.

    Glen Weyl: Yeah, so first of all, the data structure instantiates a view of where data originates and how it should be stored that is pretty inimical to what's the right way of thinking about where data is and how it should be stored. In particular, I'm a big fan of decentralization, but the blockchain isn't really based on that concept. It's really based on the notion that a large part of all data should be completely public; and then a bunch of stuff should be utterly private. And that is ultimately [...] the anathema of the way I think about things. I actually think everything has some sphere of intimacy where it should be shared and some other sphere of intimacy (or of society) into which its leaking would be problematic. It's almost never the case that you'd want things to be stored completely globally; and on the other hand it's almost always the case that you don't want them to be overly cloistered. So, data structures that instantiate the appropriate level of decentralization and that actually store data in relationship to the community to which it pertains have to be a much closer to optimal way of thinking about data structures. And so that's at the very core of how it's conceived; that's a fundamental problem with the blockchain.

    Robert Wiblin: Can you cash that out in an example where the current approach would lead to things being too public and how it might be organized better?

    Glen Weyl: Well, I mean basically the blockchain says you are anonymous online and then everything you do online is like totally public and completely transparent. But like think about your reputation. Your reputation isn't something you need to share with everybody and in every context; but on the other hand it's incredibly important that you not be anonymous, because if you're anonymous you're unaccountable. So instead the appropriate thing to do, like if I were to look into you Rob and see if you're a guy I should do a podcast with, like probably what I wouldn't want to do is go to some global repository where every action that you've ever taken is either listed or completely detached from you. Instead, I would go to some people, I would get, in confidence, references about you. You see what I'm saying? Like that's the way human societies are and should work. Things should not be either global or utterly individualistic and private. They should always be shared with some communities and not with other communities. And the blockchain just doesn't have the affordances, naturally, to allow for that sort of a structure, at a technical level.

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    Devs should try out Monoplasma by Streamr

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 12:43 PM PST

    PSA: It appears Ledger Nano S is broken in current version of Chrome. Working fine in Brave.

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 07:03 AM PST

    PBWsummit with Streamr & IOTA

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 12:45 PM PST

    Ecosystem Funding: Pledge $1000 DAI to ETH 2.0 and earn this limited edition Gitcoin Torch NFT

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 03:48 PM PST

    Trying to Sync a "Full" node. Running on a dedicated SSD with 4096mb Cache.. Cant believe it takes so Long!

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 12:51 AM PST

    ENS Root Change Will Allow Easy Integration of More Than 1300 DNS TLDs

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 01:30 PM PST

    Constantinople and St. Petersburg Expected To Release This Week; To Bring Multiple Efficiency Improvements

    Posted: 24 Feb 2019 11:53 PM PST

    Making web3 a possibility with dapps - Introducing TBML, a templating language to define tokens

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 05:11 PM PST

    MakerDAO Stability Fee Benchmarking: Still much room for growth of the stability fee

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 07:55 AM PST

    A pure solidity implementation of secp256r1 / prime256v1 / p256

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 09:11 AM PST

    MyCrypto enables support for Görli testnet

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 05:59 PM PST

    Samsumg S10 crypto wallet demo

    Posted: 24 Feb 2019 08:42 PM PST

    Is there any benefit to being in possession of ETH during the fork?

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 01:51 PM PST

    I was about to make a very large investment in another coin for awhile, using a rather large quantity of ETH. Probably about 70% of my total holdings.

    I'd forgotten the hard fork was coming in 3 days. I know another token will not be generated. But there is Proof of Stake coming.

    Will holding on to my ETH during the process of the fork have any beneficial effect for me as an ETH investor or does it make absolutely no difference how much I have at that moment?

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    Funds for Events / Ideas to Promote Mass Adoptin

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 01:49 PM PST

    Hi, I'm a freelancer in the music industry in the U.K.

    There are so many fantastic applications for smart contracts & blockchain technology in my industry, especially to do with rights for performers, composers & recording artists.

    I have been thinking a lot about an event concept for a live concert that would help to illustrate to attendees how this technology could help pay musicians / creatives in this sector more directly and much more fairly.

    Does anyone know of any funds that are taking applications for something like this?

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    Wrong Password ethereum mist wallet

    Posted: 25 Feb 2019 07:57 AM PST

    Hi everyone,

    I transferred 11ETH into mist ethereum wallet but getting "Wrong Password" error when trying to send out some ETH. I don't remember setting up password for this account, however I spent all day and night trying every conceivable password I may have used, but keep getting "Wrong Password" error.

    There are many people who have experienced this issue because there are lots of posts and topics on github regarding this. Some end up remembering the correct passwords, others, like me, swear they use correct password but still getting "Wrong Password" error. I am not crazy. I have university degree and study computing science in another in 3rd year. I also work as software developer. So such mistake for me is very unusual.

    Is it anywhere within the realm of possibility that it's a bug or that the password I may have set up wasn't encrypted properly by the wallet program?

    Thank you,

    Victor.

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