Firefox's history bar is still superior though
The Defiant is building the essential information platform for decentralized finance. We aim to be the Bloomberg of DeFi, for both news and data.
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Lots of Typescript and React. More details on the job listing.
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Web Developer (https://thedefiant.io/job/full-stack-developer/):
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The Defiant is building the essential information platform for decentralized finance. We aim to be the Bloomberg of DeFi, for both news and data.
Lead/Senior Backend:
- AWS EC2, Lambda, AWS Managed DB, PostgreSQL, Timescale DB
- Node.js/Typescript, Express
- Python for Lambda jobs
Lead Data Engineer:
- AWS EC2, Lambda, AWS Managed DB, PostgreSQL, Timescale DB
- Python for Lambda jobs
Web Developer
- Fullstack but more frontend heavy work
- Maintaining thedefiant.io
- Migrate to Ghost and away from Wordpress
Apply at: https://thedefiant.io/jobs
The Defiant is building the essential information platform for decentralized finance. We aim to be the Bloomberg of DeFi, for both news and data.
Lead/Senior Backend: - AWS EC2, Lambda, AWS Managed DB, PostgreSQL, Timescale DB - Node.js/Typescript, Express - Python for Lambda jobs
Lead Data Engineer: - AWS EC2, Lambda, AWS Managed DB, PostgreSQL, Timescale DB - Python for Lambda jobs
Apply at: https://thedefiant.io/jobs
Remote: No
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Node.js, Javascript, Ethereum, Blockchain, React, AWS, Mocha, SQL
Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PaHqTYy9YB7RQjl5WT6yPTobKWs...
Email: isaac at eyezick.com
Here is the tracking by Ernst & Young (court-appointed) providing all the public information about these developments. The latest report on 1 March 2019 mentions nothing about a cracked laptop.
https://www.augur.net/whitepaper.pdf covers the security assumptions pretty well.
I moved for work, and I gained a cool new project to work on and new adventures, but didn't have my family, friends, or any familiarity of the culture.
It quite accustoms you to leaving your comfort zone, which is powerful and awesome. And it forced me to really value my relationships, and I found myself deliberately making an effort to catch up and keep in touch with some friends that I really valued.
With Ethereum, one way to do it is to make the voting weight non-transferable, meaning to give someone else your vote you'd need to give your private key.
It would be of course crazy to do that; like giving someone your bank card and PIN number to give them cash.
That's a very wide brush stroke to paint. You just have to analyze each use case independently.
In the same example of land registry, just a transparent history is a huge value add when dealing with corrupt government officials. Here's a case study https://s3.amazonaws.com/ipri2016/casestudy_collindres.pdf . Voting transparency even with the government as the part of centralization is a huge value add imo.
Further, even allowing centralization in certain points, like a SpaceX IPO (which should def be centralized), allows whoever holds a share to make arbitrary, trustless mediums and rules of exchange.
Asset issuance, voting, wills, identity/reputation systems, land registries.
Fundamentally, a blockchain is just public, transparent immutable data history. Of the above sample cases, all it takes is for the powers to be to recognize the data as a reflection of the real world; which is a barrier outside of the technology.
And sidenote, decentralized oracles will literally tie outside world to the blockchain.
It's ironic that they mention Augur by name in the article, but are apparently unaware its main innovation is the decentralized oracle that just so happens to have a prediction market built on top of it.
> I feel like this is more of a feature than a bug.
That is indeed 100% by design. All smart contract code in Ethereum has to be deterministic to guarantee computational consensus, and of course this can only be done by having a closed EVM.
Bullet #1: Prepare for failure
The real, better cryptocurrency will probably be a stable token running on Ethereum.
Current state of software is only appropriate for some use cases. Email/text messaging (like 4chan) are not practical uses. Financial business logic handling is a great use case.
Hi everyone,I made TimeBank https://timebank.tech , a Fullstack Decentralized Application that lets anyone lock away Ether or ERC20-standard compatible tokens (like those you seen in ICOs)for arbitrary periods of time.Its backend is entirely on the Ethereum blockchain, 95% of the dev work was the UI and writing the smart contracts.It doesn't handle any private keys directly, but relies on...