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Re:Cryptography behind the top cryptocurrencies by kurthr on Saturday March 20, 2021 @10:17PM (#26527638)
Related question, what are the dominant NFT platforms. I only know of ETH based tokens, but I assume there are others... which is a bit weird for something that's supposed to be unique. Could you be unique on two different platforms and sell a token "twice"?
Re:Cryptography behind the top cryptocurrencies by str33t_punk on Saturday March 20, 2021 @10:53PM (#26527766)
You can but only really one will have value

There are crypto punks on Binance / Tron but they are pretty worthless. Everyone knows which one is the real one

For most projects that go multi chain it’s all about wrapping. I.e the main item is on ETH but they are wrapped when on other chains.

Re:Cryptography behind the top cryptocurrencies by CryptoPunk on Sunday March 21, 2021 @06:50AM (#26529518)
CryptoPunks are Ethereum-based. I think someone cloned them into TRON and Binance Smart Chain.
Re:Cryptography behind the top cryptocurrencies by drak0n1c on Sunday March 21, 2021 @03:49AM (#26528829)
Rare Pepes built on Bitcoin had some popularity in Venezuela. Besides ETH there isn’t widespread usage for collectibles. There is an assumption that eventually more performant technologies like Cardano or Hashgraph may prove themselves and take up the collectible niche.

https://cryptoinsider.media/venezuelan-developers-using-bitc...

Re:Cryptography behind the top cryptocurrencies by ddeyar on Sunday March 21, 2021 @04:31AM (#26528981)
Have a look into https://tezos.com/ its PoS

The ecological footprint it important in the nft space. https://medium.com/tqtezos/proof-of-work-vs-proof-of-stake-t...

At the moment approximately 40 transactions per second

NFTs on Tezos: https://kalamint.io/ https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/ Minting a NFT costs about 1 cent

A collectible card game called emergents will be based on the chain. https://coa.se/

Further adoption: Recently the biggest retailer in france has announced to develop a stable coin on tezos. https://www.coindesk.com/french-firm-launches-euro-stablecoi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupe_Casino

Re:Cryptography behind the top cryptocurrencies by lucasverra on Sunday March 21, 2021 @06:31AM (#26529435)
What does tezos bring vs eth2 besides having POS before? The way I see it is another Ethereum killer with no organic community (like Tron, Eos and a bunch more)

Eth1 docking on Eth2 on the roadmap in the next 18 months. The https://beaconcha.in/ has more solo validators online right now than people aware of tezos existence.

Tezos feel like a French project like Minitel was. Ahead of it´s time, theoretically ok supported by short sided ego first French corporate (Casino project reads like multi airlines travel points from the mid 80´s)

Don't get me wrong It worth a lot in the research fundamentals. But so much could be done joining the nationless Ethereum project.

Re:Cryptography behind the top cryptocurrencies by ddeyar on Sunday March 21, 2021 @08:07AM (#26529811)
It is self-amending so you don't need to fork. Everyone can inject an upgrade proposal directly in the chain... It allows formal verification and has already privacy preserving smart contracts. Which all are critical points for adoption in fintech. So why join the Vitalik project? :) https://tezos.com/docs/learn/what-is-tezos Currently they upgrade the protocol every 3-4 Month, which is super fast compared to others. The chain is also well decentralized.

I'm completly with you about the awareness of tezos. There was no marketing. In April they will start, what that means, I don't know. It is not a French project, when you look up https://www.nomadic-labs.com/ you see it's also UK, Switzerland, Japan ... The foundation (audited by PwC) is based in Switzerland. "We sustainably deploy resources that support the long-term success of Tezos." https://tezos.foundation/about-us/ They have about 1B USD to back the project, which is spent sparsely.

I don't know where tezos is in 18 months, but it's surely not dead.

Re:Cryptography behind the top cryptocurrencies by CryptoPunk on Sunday March 21, 2021 @06:48AM (#26529504)
Ethereum is the dominant platform for NFTs, and everything else (e.g. tokens, DeFi, etc).

The one notable exception is NBA Top Shot, which is an NFT collection that uses the Flow blockchain.