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Re:Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered... by timdaub on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @01:51PM (#26480331)
Hey,

great job on the landing page, it looks good!

Two questions:

- How are you coping with expensive gas on main net right now?

- Do you have a document describing how your token works on a technical level. Like a spec or so.

Thanks and good luck!

Re:Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered... by VukT on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @02:20PM (#26480748)
There are a couple of medium posts describing technical background of the platform and token itself such as: https://cryptotask.medium.com/cryptotask-combines-defr-and-d... https://cryptotask.medium.com/technical-background-of-crypto...

We are running on AEternity blockchain (https://aeternity.com/), making gas fees sufficiently low. There have been 19.5k transactions https://www.aeknow.org/contract/detail/ct_X3szYGp5irejPsowXp... and we are alive :)

Re:Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered... by hanniabu on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @02:40PM (#26481010)
Ooof, didn't know you were running on AEternity. That in itself would be a no for me. I would definitely love to participate if there was a decision to move to ETH when Optimism is released.
Re:Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered... by Rule35 on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @03:46PM (#26481894)
Why? The blockchain technologically, the UI difficulty of another chain, or the currency?
Re:Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered... by hanniabu on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @04:35PM (#26482541)
Because of all innovation is happening on Ethereum, so yes I don't want to deal with the UX difficulty of using another chain. Also I wouldn't want to invest (both time and $) into a project on a 2nd rate platform. Not to mention it doesn't reflect well on the project to not consider the network effect nor the planned L2 solutions that are here to address scalability. I highly recommend looking into Optimism. I'm not sure what the difference of AE and ETH EVM is (forked?), but I know that if you have a project in Solidity then you can launch on Optimism with little to no changes (just use their compiler).
Re:Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered... by vmception on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @05:27PM (#26483255)
who cares? they are just dropping junk storage onto random blockchain enthusiast's computers for basically free instead of AWS and are clearly paying their talent with a token that trades on the Ethereum network via Uniswap. Would you even notice?

You aren't a developer for them so you don't have to worry about Erlang, their token doesn't need an Aeternity wallet if it trades on Ethereum, and even if you do earn their token on the Aeternity blockchain they could just offer a bridge on their own website.

Let me know if I missed something, how is this your problem?

Re:Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered... by T0Bi on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @06:38PM (#26484149)
Because on Ethereum, they could connect/be integrated with other projects. As most dapps are on Ethereum and the network effect is probably the most important factor in crypto, this will continue to be the case.

Therefore it's highly unlikely that CryptoTask will ever have integrations with existing or potential new Dapps.

This might not be relevant right now, but it certainly will be in the future.

Re:Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered... by vmception on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @06:59PM (#26484327)
We are talking about a freelancer marketplace dumping state data on random nodes and miners computers for the lulz (and a level of immutability that nobody asked for). What could possibly be the integration here?

Their erc20 token on Ethereum can integrate with whatever you want

I think people are conflating things

Re:Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered... by timdaub on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @02:50PM (#26481166)
On AEternity! Wow, I've participated in their ICO back then.

Thanks for the details, I'll take a look.

Re:Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered... by imaginationra on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @04:54PM (#26482828)
No Ethereum network- no go for me as well.
Re:Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered... by vmception on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @05:29PM (#26483285)
Their token trades on Uniswap so what difference does that make for you? Who cares where they dump their junk data?
Re:Show HN: CryptoTask – a 0% fee freelance platform powered... by terhechte on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @02:21PM (#26480765)
Not the author, but it should be possible for them to move to a Layer 2 solution soon. Examples are Optimism, Fuel, or Loopring. They’re all still in beta though (I think)