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    Ethereum People only say Eth, because they can't spell Etheriuem properly.

    Ethereum People only say Eth, because they can't spell Etheriuem properly.


    People only say Eth, because they can't spell Etheriuem properly.

    Posted: 22 Aug 2021 01:32 AM PDT

    And I'm sure you're in the same case!

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    Why is ETH so popular when their gas fees are so unreasonably high?

    Posted: 22 Aug 2021 12:35 PM PDT

    not slamming ETH, just want to know as I rarely use it because of its fees

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    How come no one in the industry ever calls out ponzi schemes like HEX? Where's Vitalik?

    Posted: 22 Aug 2021 06:49 PM PDT

    When you stake on HEX, your coins go to Richard Heart's personal crypto wallet that he controls called the Origin Address. To put it bluntly, it's the same kind of scam that Bernie Madoff, Bitconnect, and Charles Ponzi pulled. There are many scams in crypto that operate like this, but most of them are tiny. Hex is now the largest ERC20 token by marketcap and is usually among the highest trading volumes on Uniswap. It is too big to ignore.

    The industry has chosen to deal with this scam by giving it the silent treatment. Coingecko and Coinmarketcap have taken action by hiding HEX from the front page. Coindesk has not made any articles mentioning Richard Heart over the last year. No prominent leaders in crypto have went out of their way to call this scam out. Pure silence from the industry.

    Where's CZ? Where's Sam Bankman Fried? Where's Vitalik? Vitalik doesn't seem to hold back any punches when calling Craig Wright a scammer, but is completely silent about Richard Heart.

    The dangers of our silence is that we created a vacuum that Richard Heart exploited to legitimize Hex. If people called it out, the scam would not be anywhere near as big as it is today.

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    Cross-chain atomic swap protocol between Monero and Ethereum

    Posted: 22 Aug 2021 12:03 PM PDT

    As someone with < 1 ETH, should i move my ETH to an exchange?

    Posted: 22 Aug 2021 04:47 PM PDT

    I've seen gas fees go well above 100$ just for transferring ETH, so my consern is they will come to be so high that i won't be able to transfer it without losing most on fees.

    I guess what e mean to as is: did the new EIPs do anything to make things better in terms of fees for small owners of ETH in the long run?

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    Will Eth 2.0 solve the high gas prices?

    Posted: 22 Aug 2021 07:24 PM PDT

    Where did I send it?

    Posted: 22 Aug 2021 06:14 PM PDT

    I was looking through my Coinbase transactions from a while back because I thought I remembered storing away some Ethereum somewhere about 4 years ago. I was is a car accident around that time and had a pretty bad concussion, I have no recollection as to where this wallet(?) is. I have the public address where it was sent, and I have a seed, but don't know what to do to retrieve it... Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can track it down? much obliged...

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    Where should I buy all my crypto?

    Posted: 21 Aug 2021 10:51 PM PDT

    So I currently have all my crypto in Robinhood, I have roughly over 6k in crypto on that plate form.. what is the best app/website etc. for my crypto purchases and holdings. FYI, I also have stocks with Robinhood and Charles Schwab but my % return is sad compared to my crypto returns. Appreciate the help boys.

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    Who is staking ethereum on coinbase? And if so how are you liking it? Can’t take the money out yet. And no one knows when we will.

    Posted: 22 Aug 2021 08:23 PM PDT

    First pair of crypto kicks made let me know what you think !

    Posted: 22 Aug 2021 07:52 PM PDT

    Long term ETH burn vs Equities

    Posted: 22 Aug 2021 01:24 PM PDT

    Assuming full market saturation ( I.e. full adoption of ether..whenever we get there) wouldn't we need to be reducing eth supply greater than 7%/yr to make it a more attractive investment than equities? (Or 5% assuming 2%inflation eroding fiat value) How will that be achieved? Do we think this is achievable? Can someone explain the vision here

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    Where best to stake ETH in Australia?

    Posted: 22 Aug 2021 06:42 PM PDT

    Hi all I am just looking for some advice on the best place to stake my ETH in Australia. It seems kraken is a viable option but I'm not so sure about it being stuck until 2.0 which could be a prolonged period of time. Any thoughts? Thanks

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    Can all the ETH be burned up?

    Posted: 22 Aug 2021 02:01 PM PDT

    I cant seem to find a answer on this.

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    What did I do with my ETH?

    Posted: 22 Aug 2021 04:31 PM PDT

    Hello!

    So I was messing around today. Trying to understand the binance smart chain. I think I accidentally sent my ETH to a binance smart chain address (should be my address) unintentionally.

    Luckily it was only a small amount, but it was still mine!! And I had this in my MetaMask wallet to use for gas fees and now that account has no ETH in it.

    Here is the transaction hash:

    0xe9e9d39faf512aba5a27e6177513d32430cb2a3a10c1b55970b877feff68fce2

    Can somebody help me track this down? And maybe help me get it back if possible?

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    No More Ethereum ETFs? Proshares, VanEck Withdraw Ether ETF Proposals

    Posted: 22 Aug 2021 02:49 PM PDT

    Kraken has a ETH2.s to ETH trading pair to trade staked ETH to unstacked ETH. Should I just buy some staked ETH there and get a discount instead of clicking "stake"?

    Posted: 22 Aug 2021 06:39 AM PDT

    I am considering staking on Kraken.
    They have a big "Stake" button and when you click that your ETH becomes staked ETH.

    They also have an trading pair made off ETH and staked ETH and as far as I understand this is a way to escape the lock in until ETH2.0 if you want. The drawback is that the staked ETH trades a little under 1 ETH.

    If I understand correctly that means I could get staked ETH for a slightly lower price. Should I just buy that instead of using the big "Stake" button?

    Am I missing something here?

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    The Ethereum FUDBuster - An Attempt 1

    Posted: 22 Aug 2021 02:28 AM PDT

    Hey everyone, so I decided to take some time to address some of the common FUD that has been thrown into this subreddit with hopes it may help some newbies into ETH to at least understand the whole context to the FUD that is used usually by Bitcoin Maximalist.

    I will definitely make mistakes, so I hope this can be something that everyone will critique so I can improve on it! So let's get on to it!

    ETH IS A PREMINED 'SHIT' COIN

    • Premine refers to the issuance that happened before mining, this in itself is not necessarily a bad thing, unless it is done in such a way that a very small group of people benefits and causes a great inequality.
    • The Ethereum sale lasted for 42 days. Link to the launch page of the sale for more information. The sale gave enough information and can be also arguably said to be more public and reached more people than when satoshi started mining bitcoin by posting it on the bitcointalk forum.
    • Link to the results of the sale after 2 weeks. Interestingly, the result of the sale had a Gini coefficient that is lower than bitcoin's at the time, possibly indicating that initial ETH distribution is more equal than Bitcoin's distribution. This is of course assuming that every sale participant address is unique.
    • Overall result is that 60 million of ETH is sold to the sale participants and 12 million is created for the Ethereum foundation to fund activities. (This is the premine). Some good data here. This is the part where bitcoin maxis will usually say that vitalik and co will dump their ETH on us, assuming of course these 72 million in ETH has not been moved at all and everyone who bought in has diamondhanded until now (SPOILER: This is a stupid argument).
    • The 72 million premine accounts for about 61% of current ETH total supply (117 million at the time of writing). Again with the fact that this happened 7 years ago, the distribution of ether from that time since now has of course diluted the holdings of the initial sale participant. Though I must confess I do not have the data on that. If anyone can share some, that would be awesome.

    ETH is a INFLATIONARY SHITCOIN with UNLIMITED SUPPLY

    • Inflation or deflation is a neutral term, it depends on the goals of the underlying asset to decide whether it is good or bad. It is correct that we have unlimited supply, but that does not mean there will be unlimited ETH in circulation. This is neither a good or a bad thing.
    • Ethereum has had a few forks that adjusted the rate of inflation since the genesis block. Historical changes to the issuance can be found here. The changes to issuance reflects ethereum's monetary policy of minimum necessary issuance.
    • On contrast, it also does not mean that a limited supply is a good thing, for bitcoin for example, this raises concerns that when all 21 million of BTC is minted or when subsequent halvings have passed, there needs to be enough bitcoin transaction fees to incentivize miners to mine the chain and secure the network. Other coins like monero have tail issuance at the end of minting, that ensures miners are still compensated via a block reward component rather than just transaction fees. Only time will tell which is the best option.
    • EIP-1559 introduces the necessary deflationary pressure to ETH, by burning ETH based on the demand on blockspace. This does not in itself make ETH deflationary, but it allows for the protocol to algorithmically adjust its own monetary policy by linking it to network usage. This eliminates the need for community consensus to be made to reduce issuance further up until the merge.
    • The merge, whereby the consensus layer will be replaced by PoS will further reduce issuance, causing ETH inflation to significantly decrease! This is because it is less costly to run a PoS validator compared to a PoW miner, and hence we can reward them less to secure the network. I find this page does the issuance numbers some justice.

    PoS is shit and leads to centralization, enriching Vitalik and co who has a lot of stake in ethereum. credit to /u/SwagtimusPrime

    • Proof of stake in Ethereum is designed such that stakers need to align themselves to the interest of the network or else they risk to get slashed. Slashing would effectively cause one's staked ETH to be burned and he gets kicked out of the validator pool, reducing his stake and voting power in the system.
    • For concerns regarding early adopters having more power in PoS, refer to arguments under premine. People had 7 years chance to get into ETH and get some voting power, the move to PoS has always been the goal of the ethereum ecosystem.
    • It is correct to say that the more ethereum you have to stake, the more you will earn and eventually you can hold more. There are mechanisms in the PoS system that is designed to discourage pooling.
      • The hardware requirements to run PoS consensus node is very light, you can even run them on a raspberry pi
      • The 32 ETH requirement is the result of the above. Remember that this was made when ETH price was in the 3 digits, and hence was very accessible to a lot of people.
      • For people without 32ETH, the coredevs are looking into something called the secret shared validators, which allows smaller trustless pools to be formed, unlike exchange pools where you deposit your eth and hope they behave. (Note, if they don't behave, they will lose your and their own ETH due to slashing, which they have to compensate one way or the other, making an attack very costly).
      • The execution clients high disk requirement due to state bloat is being solved slowly through state expiry research. I am not sure if ReGenesis is also in the cards for this.
    • Vitalik himself did a good write up on this in this page.
    • Essentially with slashing mechanisms in place, it is much more costly to attack the PoS system compared to PoW as attackers would need to procure enough ETH to game the system, and is also willing to burn these ETH in case their attacks fail. In PoW, the ASICs or GPU can be continuously used to attack the chain over and over again. Take a look at Bitcoin SV for referrence.
    • Some additional good points from /u/SwagtimusPrime here

    Nobody knows how many ETH there is

    • This was actually a fairly recent FUD and is not true. In etherscan for example, you can look at the total number of ETH very easily. IIRC there were some differences found simply because the scripts made by different people did not account for some edge cases.

    Ethereum will never scale, too much bloat

    • Scaling is a hard process, the scalability trilemma (i.e. scalability(speed), security, and decentralization) is something that needs to be considered when trying to scale ethereum.
    • A lot of work is being done for this and I will try to mention some of them here
      • State expiry - reduce state bloat and allow lower requirement to run execution clients
      • Layer 2 centric roadmap - zk-rollups and optimistic rollups are solving scaling while maintaining low costs and is running now! They are still in beta however.
      • Data shards in consensus client can work together with rollups to allow for even more tps.
    • Ethereum direction towards statelesness will also make this easier going forward. u/Liberosist made a good writeup of it here.

    Vitalik makes all decision in Ethereum Changes

    • If someone tells you this with a passion, I suggest you ignore them as they are not going to listen to any good arguments with that brain.
    • In all seriousness, vitalik has taken the backseat in making a lot of the core devs decision lately. What he is focused on is to bring some research data and making roadmaps which can be heavily contested by others in the coredevs team.
    • It is not like vitalik has a master key to ethereum to make it do what he wants, seriously. If anyone feels that what he suggests is shit, they will not implement it. He also has to go through the same EIP process as everyone when proposing an improvement.

    Gas Fees are too expensive, nobody will use ETH

    • Gas fees are expensive because everybody is fucking using the network. Goddamnit can you all stop minting shitty NFTs (not you Ethfinance, you ok.) with ridiculous prices.
    • On a more serious note, yes this is bad, I don't like it, nobody likes it. It creates a significant barrier to entry for a lot of newcomers to the space.
    • What is good though, is that we are aware of it, and are working towards resolving it.
    • Increasing the block gas limit is not always the best solution as this worsens state bloat. If they have solutions to the state growth, we can consider to start increasing block limit.
    • Layer 2 are relatively cheap to use, however, they still don't integrate very well with exchanges and many DApps (Soon is our best hope)
    • Will people run to other chains due to this? Sure they might, but that does not necessarily mean the end of ETH. I have yet to see a chain that is as decentralized as ethereum, that can handle as many transactions with minimal cost.

    OK I need a break, probably will add more when I feel like it. Other points to talk about if anyone wants to help

    • Ethereum can reverse your transaction if coredevs feels like it (The DAO)
    • No ethereum full node exists except archive node
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    The Ethereum Citadel- Part I; Fictional Futuristic Utopian SciFi DeFi Historic Record

    Posted: 22 Aug 2021 01:04 PM PDT

    Want to transfer ETH to hardware wallet but the fee is crazy expensive

    Posted: 22 Aug 2021 10:04 AM PDT

    I have a large sum of ETH on my hardware wallet nano s and the fee to send it to that address is 0.016 eth! That's a ridiculous sum considering atm I only want to move only 0.05 eth. What are my options? Shall I just dollar cost average more eth and send a larger sum of Eth to the address?

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    Transaction missing on Etherscan?

    Posted: 22 Aug 2021 09:18 AM PDT

    When I download all of the internal transactions from Etherscan through the web interface, it appears to be missing one transaction. This is because the sum didn't sum to my wallet balance. I made sure the dates included all transactions that occurred. I am using the "CSV export" feature on etherscan.io.

    When I download the transactions using the API:

    https://api.etherscan.io/api?module=account&action=txlistinternal&address=<MyAddress>&sort=asc&apikey=YourApiKeyToken

    The missing transaction appears (the sum reaches the wallet balance and the missing transaction hash appears in the list). Why would the web interface exclude a transaction? Is this a bug?

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    What's the best and safest way to earn interest on my ETH?

    Posted: 22 Aug 2021 08:38 AM PDT

    I've been doing some research and I cannot for the life of me figure out which option is best for what I'm looking for...

    I'm looking for the safest way to earn interest on my ETH without having to turn it into some other token, I'm also looking for the best interest rate I can get without having to worry about locking it up until ETH 2.0 comes out.

    So far I've looked into BlockFi, Celsius, Compound, Aave, etc.

    BlockFi seems like the best that I've read about so far.

    Does anyone have any good experiences that they can share or anything they would recommend?

    Thanks!

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    Is staking 'safe'? If no: why do people do it, if yes: why not everybody(who HODLs)?

    Posted: 22 Aug 2021 06:30 AM PDT

    I understand that there's a risk but how much of a risk is it really? Are there better alternatives to staking?

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    Why DeFi Is More Than A Ponzi Scam

    Posted: 22 Aug 2021 05:45 PM PDT

    General Conclusion

    Some people claim that DeFi is a scam ponzi because there are a lot of pumps and dumps. Everything on Twitter is shilling all kinds of different projects. Now there are a lot of risks involved, and the projects are not fully audited. So a lot of people are wondering this is a ponzi scam of part of the innovation cycle.

    In this article, we will tell why DeFi is more than just a ponzi scam.

    We cover 3 things today:

    1. Why DeFi feels like Ponzi
    2. Why DeFi is not Ponzi
    3. Future of DeFi.

    When talking about DeFi here, we are referring to the general ecosystem and not a single project, because the ecosystem is doing quite well in general.

    Sure, there are some systems around the world with plenty of scams. This includes traditional financial market. But you cannot discredit the entire system because of a few black sheep.

    DeFi is a new system and industry. There will be a few scams coming out but you cannot define this for the entire ecosystem, which is doing a lot of good and interesting things.

    DeFi and Ponzi

    If you google the keyword "DeFi and Ponzi", you can see a lot of articles saying that DeFi is like Ponzi, just another name called, DeFi is basically ICO 2.0 where people are pumping and dumping, whale manipulation, etc.

    What it feels like: Everything is just memes and a joke. Is this even serious? Why do I have to join? How is this legal and how can people make money? Projects with 100% APY; where does the money come from and why is it valuable? People just swapping or trading tokens together, but it was in a circle, a pyramid scheme.

    What it actually is: Liquidity Mining (Synthetix) and Yield Farming (Compound) are ways to bootstrap growth and to reward a decentralised community to take ownership of the protocol. High rewards for risk takers in the early days is rationally sound. And when payout for the risk takers happen all at once, it feels like the APY is insanely high.

    Why DeFi is not Ponzi

    1. Grow the Pie

    Answer the above question briefly: this is not necessarily true. If you look at the distribution of the entire economic value as a pie, a ponzi scam is where you are extracting value every time someone is coming in. This means that the pie doesn't change much, you give your money to someone else to receive new tokens.

    DeFi is like the pie, that keeps growing. There are many projects/protocols under construction, such as lending protocol, Dex protocol, portfolio asset management protocol, etc. They're in beta testing in this early stage and they do not try to capitalise on the entire financial market which is a big field.

    Each DeFI tries to do well with a specific purpose, they are like small lego blocks, combined together to create various different products. This is composability, the protocols can interact with each other and make the pie grows. Just like in order to make a delicious pie, we have to add more kinds of fillings. This is why it is so interesting and exciting.

    On the protocol side, the protocols with all these little ecosystems and applications whose own community can grow by interacting together.

    With the platform which is pretty neutral because they are technology, the added value from connecting buyers and sellers. If we look at economics, this is supply and demand, and they only make sense when there is equilibrium and interacting together.

    The protocols/applications are trying to build to the playing field, from which suppliers and buyers can come to interact with each other. The more interactions, the more economic value added is created and the pie keeps growing.

    2. Experimenting with New Business Models

    According to the economics perspective, if you observe the previous business models, it is usually one-sided. Going back to the above example, if I make a cake, you go to a bakery and buy it, there is nothing more I can do like asking a few people to try a new or similar flavour. Supply and demand are still very dependent.

    However, when we look back about 10 years ago, a new business model emerged called the platform. We have Amazon, AirBnb, Uber, etc. which provide the technology to connect the two sides of the ecosystem together to transact. This creates a lot of economic value.

    Suppose I am an economist, the question is: how to quantify the economic value created? We can then calculate metrics like GDP, because it represents the growth of a platform.

    With these values, you can calculate the value-added with all of these transaction fees. But there is a lot of intangible value being created in the ecosystem, which is connecting two sides of the platforms together for easier interaction. By reducing transaction costs, it increases economic value. This is what an economist observes and we are working on it. Specialities focus on the digital economy and how to compute them.

    I realised that what we are doing with native tokens is considering how valuable they are to the ecosystem. Tokens can have a lot of utility and represent value. More specifically, these tokens are representing the value of some ecosystem.

    That way, we are assigning a monetary policy value to the economies that the system is creating. And we can calculate metrics, like GDP. All of the above gets interesting.

    3. New P2P Incentive Models

    We are developing new p2p incentive models. One thing about decentralised finance as a whole is the complete elimination of middlemen. Instead of centralised power in one person/place, they are distributed equally to everyone. Now, we have more money to be distributed, instead of sending them to intermediaries. In traditional finance, for example, a public initially listed on a stock exchange must go through banks and pay them an expensive fee, but these are eliminated in decentralised finance, where those companies can list their tokens on dexes, provide liquidity, and lots of other incentives.

    This is very interesting. We are phasing out intermediaries that are stealing a lot of money. But the bad thing is we have a lot of money not distributed: how do we allocate them? How do we reward the right types of people?

    I would say that these will keep moving forward because we realise that capitalism does not work so much anymore and is not going to be sustainable in the long-term. That makes us look forward to new paradigms of capitalism, like social capitalism kind of thing.

    We need to have lots of new p2p incentive models and the best place to test is DeFi which has liquidity farming, yield farming, etc. For these interesting mining and incentive mechanisms, we are trying to try many different incentive mechanisms and create many interesting future mechanisms.

    Future of DeFi

    There are two things that we see in DeFi's future:

    1. On-chain Financial Experiments and Mechanisms to be used in TradFi
      The first thing we are seeing in DeFI right now is that you don't have many transactions in the real world. That goes back to my point of the whole GDP accountability because we are trading nominal value, not much real value transactions since you exit the crypto space and transfer the money to the bank.
      Right now, everything is still within the on-chain sphere. DeFi's future is to allow these experiments and experiences to interact within the off-chain world. Because the off-chain world is very ineffective (like the financial system, the governance system, etc.).
      What we are trying to do now is to run all these little experiments/tests. If it works in on-chain well, we can extend to the off-chain world, creating a bridge to connect the 2 worlds. This is really interesting.
    2. Economic Valuation from Ecosystems
      Second, we can now more easily calculate the economic values generated from specific individual ecosystems, while also moving them off-chain world and account for them in a much more equitable way. It leads to governance which has better resources/data points to be accounting for all these different changes in the world.

    Conclude

    Here is a quick summary of the Ponzi Scam and DeFi and I would say that not all DeFi platforms are Ponzi Scam. One of them could be a scam and you need to check it out carefully. For non-scam projects, they are fun experiences. We need to learn to understand how it works and explore what kind of experiments capital allocation and governance system that could be.

    Honestly, I am going to tell you that there is so much economics literature out there, talking about the technical and the academic aspects of all these experiments, but we never really had a chance to explore them. There are a lot of interesting monetary policy mechanisms in academic papers, but we don't really use them. We have a lot of dynamic variables in DeFi space and we can test these experiences.

    In fact, in the economics space, a lot of people are experimenting with many different theories on DeFi and if it works which will lead to a huge change and bring DeFi even more powerful. Their users also become part of DeFi's future development. An example of a testnet is the experiments of crypto and crypto itself is the experiments of the off-chain world. This is super fascinating and now one of the best times to be.

    TLDR:

    DeFi is still in its early stages and it is still risky. There are scams here and there. But we should not use a few black sheep to define the space as a ponzi scam. DeFi will develop further in the future with better testing. And it is clear that its potential will develop very quickly later.

    DeFi is innovating fast. We should analyse and exploit the strengths. Scam projects will still emerge. Our continuous education and knowledge will help reduce that.

    Get smart: DeFi is not exactly a Ponzi Scam, it is still evolving and will have limitations in it.

    Get smarter: The growth potential of DeFi is huge, we see the traditional financial system, the governance system is very ineffective. Thing resources are under-utilised and expensive. DeFi is trying this problem and if it succeeds it will be revolutionary.

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    This may be a naive question but I’d like to learn how to sell personalized gifts from my hobby business and accept Ethereum. Do I need to create a wallet or can I create a business on the Ethereum network? Any resources would help, Thank you folks! Follow us at @fun_graving

    Posted: 22 Aug 2021 11:27 AM PDT

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