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    February 28, 2020

    Ethereum CoronaCoin: Crypto Developers Seize on Coronavirus for New, Morbid Token

    CoronaCoin: Crypto Developers Seize on Coronavirus for New, Morbid Token

    Posted: 28 Feb 2020 01:44 PM PST

    Ethereum Mass Adoption map

    Posted: 28 Feb 2020 02:21 AM PST

    Status is having another fundraiser, so I asked some questions every original SNT investor should have answers to

    Posted: 28 Feb 2020 06:06 AM PST

    Etherna: A Trasparent Video Platform

    Posted: 28 Feb 2020 10:26 AM PST

    Crossposting from https://www.reddit.com/r/ethswarm/comments/fayh63/etherna_a_trasparent_video_platform

    Hi, I am LudoThorn, maybe you are part of the 99,9999% of the people who does not know me, so I start introducing myself. I am an Italian youtuber with 122k followers in my channel. In my videos, I translate, adapt and dub in Italian a lot of parodies from the web both videogame and non-gaming theme. Lately, together with some collaborators, I also started to create my own cartoons.

    Unfortunately, because of new rules of you tube in the last year and a half, my channel has been completely sunk. I went from making 1.5 million views per month to just over 220 thousan. Moreover I completely lost the opportunity to monetize on any content. This also excludes live donations and the chanche to link my patreon page directly. Now it is for me very much difficult to produce my contents.

    I'm not even the only one in this situation. More influencers are forced to fall back on services like Patreon in order to finance their projects. However these kinds of alternatives do not always work or are simply not suitable for everyone.

    Actually, for me and all the creators like me, in the current YouTube system there are too many unfair things: algorithms continously changing, demonetization, duplication, missing privileges for certain types of channels (such as news channels). All factors that have made Youtube a rather hostile place to create content, especially for the slightly smaller channels.

    Because we currently are on a crypto sub, we can remeber also when Youtube have started to censor crypto channels without any specific policy changing declaration. You can't say what they are actually doing, without specific inverse engineering reasearch on Youtube behavior.

    I am not one whom likes to see his shack go up in fire (especially after 6 years of strong work) I decided to roll up my sleeves and dedicate myself to a brand new project.

    So if Youtube doesn't want me to pubblish video on his platform "I'll go build my own Tube, with blackjack, and hookers!" [cit Futurama]

    Ok, maybe no hookers, in the platform. It could be a project for myself :D

    Joking aside, problems are real and we are really doing something. Something that can give to creators the "power" and that care that over time has been lost.

    We are developing a new platform, free from the slavery of advertising and all its restrictions. We have members that are studing cryptocyrencies since 2014, more specifically are engaged into Ethereum software development, so we are following the web3.0 paradigms. The target is to develop a more transparent platform for its users, a platform in which every artist, every independent journalist and why not, companies as like people can feel valued their creations.

    Currently, my first interest is to collect opinions, advices, personal experiences and preferences... at time we still haven't official presented the project, its details or the team, but at now we can say that we are based on Swarm (https://swarm.ethereum.org/) and we are strictly following the main paradigms of crypto-world, like transparency, decentralization and user privacy. They are our fundamental pillars.

    If you want to help us on this project, you can answer to a short survey that we prepared in our temporary website.

    https://etherna.io/

    Thank you for collaboration, see you soon with more information!

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    We love seeing the enthusiasm about ETH 2.0! If you want to start buidling on ETH, you can head on over to NOWNodes for a great experience ;)

    Posted: 28 Feb 2020 07:48 AM PST

    Augur Weekly - Sweet Carolina ����

    Posted: 28 Feb 2020 08:13 AM PST

    Survey Recruitment (with a chance to win a gift card)

    Posted: 28 Feb 2020 02:56 PM PST

    Hi everyone,

    I'm a PhD student at UBC (http://twitter.com/vosk_art) and we are currently conducting a large scale online survey of both users and non-users of crypto-assets. We are working with several European and Canadian exchanges, companies, and research institutions and are looking for participants. By filling out the survey, you are entering a raffle with a chance (1 in 25) to win a $75 CAD amazon gift card. Let me know if you have any questions.

    Here is the link to the survey: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2irwtNzQIPRmSEd?channel=rethereum

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    How will ethereum 2.0 handle scaling in regards to the size of the blockchain?

    Posted: 28 Feb 2020 01:44 PM PST

    I think PoS and sharding are very interesting ideas but I'm not understanding how the size will scale.

    I heard that ethereum 2.0 wants to eventually scale to be able to accommodate as many transactions as current custodial methods that use the dollar such as visa, MasterCard, etc. But to accomplish this it seems like it would massively increases the size of the block chain.

    I may have missed something or not researched thoroughly enough.

    What are some reasonable solutions to this problem, are they banking on Moore's law + time or is there another way?

    Thanks

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    Channelizing an Ethereum Application (basic Channel constructs on State Channels)

    Posted: 27 Feb 2020 10:46 PM PST

    Does your project use OpenZeppelin contracts, tools, or libraries? - Share the �� with the rest of the community by adding a #built_with_OpenZeppelin badge to your README! - Thanks to ohmydai, PoolTogether and Sablier for adding the badge.

    Posted: 28 Feb 2020 12:31 PM PST

    Sablier.Me: stream money to personalized Ethereum profiles

    Posted: 28 Feb 2020 09:21 AM PST

    The Conclusion for the ProgPOW hardware audit says it is effective against current ASICs but...

    Posted: 28 Feb 2020 02:42 PM PST

    Full disclosure: I was for ProgPOW when it was initially released. Things got clearer to me along the way. I now oppose ProgPOW taking in all what's happened from its initial proposal to now. For one, things like DeFi were just starting out. We have more to lose now in terms of the underlying public good (Damn... For those who are just tuning in, the developments during the bear market were relentless. This space did not miss a beat and things were nothing short of impressive and then some).

    DAG size increase will already brick current gen ASICs along with 4GPUs (well-known). You don't tinker with the protocol let alone just go on changing it after establishing that there's no imminent attacks from the said device group - currently even with ASICs on the mix on the total nethash (this has been covered on numerous calls when the ProgPOW proposal was initially raised). Not saying that this is not possible because it is. Looking at the total nethash here https://etherscan.io/stat/miner?range=7&blocktype=blocks, it will take a combination of the entities on the top 5 pools to collude (or even just the top 2 - SparkPool and Ethermine) for a 51% attack to happen. This is regardless if there are big hash from ASIC devices currently in the network or not. This gets easier if the total nethash goes down which is inevitable due to the DAG size increase EDIT: I.e. We need a more diversified source of hash power in terms of nodes. Collusion will not happen because of the devices behind the nodes providing the hash power but because of the entities behind the nodes themselves. Think of the scenario where someone wanted to attack ETH and that someone gained control of SparkPool and Ethermine. It doesn't matter if the miners under those two are only using GPUs or all ASICs (or whatever). It is the hash power that one controls is what matters the most and the intentions on what to do with that hash power. ProgPOW doesn't help here. It just makes it all more of a possibility with all the given that's about to happen. I think everyone here will agree that to assume altruism on both sides (or any participants in mining and/or any aspect of ETH for that matter) is naive.

    Lastly, the looming threat highlighted below is true regardless which POS we as a community choose to go ahead with moving forward. So PRogPOW or ETHash, this vulnerability is still there.

    People who hold ETH should at least go though the audits - you paid for it in some way. For quick reference, here's what it said:

    Conclusions

    • The ProgPOW algorithm works well to mitigate conventional ASIC strategies which only address accelerating the computation side of this memory hard algorithm: Current Ethash ASICs on the market are demonstrating ~1.6 X Hashrate/Watt over GPUs

    • Memory hardness which is shared by both ProgPOW and Ethash dominates over compute in determining Energy/Hash (E/H)

    • ProgPOW vastly increases the complexity of the inner loop compute and optimizes it to the GPU datapath, thereby further mitigating E/H improvements possible with conventional ASICs.

    • However, there is a looming threat to memory hard algorithms in general as massive amounts of memory can be brought very close to compute logic due to advancements in Moore's law and 3D/2.5D packaging:

    This bulk of this audit has explored possible approaches for these ASICs

    • AI and graph workloads are facing similar memory issues and various companies are working on this:

    It is entirely possible that new solutions will come from this AI segment

    EDIT: I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone that participated on the discussions on this (on both sides). Communication is healthy. I also want to apologize if I got personal or got a bit "playful" on my responses. I am human.

    Kidding aside, please keep responses civil. Thank you.

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