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Re:Clarity: A Decidable Language for Smart Contracts on Thursday June 11, 2020 @08:26AM (#23488054)
Clarity has lots of brackets. I like that the file/document is the contract, like back in the days for Curl Content Language.
Re:Show HN: No more 12-word seed phrases on Thursday September 12, 2019 @03:41AM (#20948987)
I like the convenience .. and that you can still use your account on other services that support bip39.

Maybe you want to collaborate with arkane.network for payment/wallets.

Re:The Vision for Decentralized Web on Sunday July 14, 2019 @05:39PM (#20436270)
Many Blockstack apps are about managing user data. If you want to make profit from this data then you stay where we are at the moment with data capitalism...
Re:The Vision for Decentralized Web on Sunday July 14, 2019 @05:36PM (#20436241)
Some of the Blockstack apps work on mobile as well (I haven't tested them all but a saw some good progressive web app designs).
Re:The Vision for Decentralized Web on Sunday July 14, 2019 @05:33PM (#20436225)
If dpage.io goes down all the authors still have their pages on their storage. It is just a question of spinning of a new page that aggregates the pages again. Authors own their page content.
Re:The Vision for Decentralized Web on Sunday July 14, 2019 @05:29PM (#20436178)
Have a look at Blockstack's gaia protocol for storage, it is free and open source. And you can also use it with other decentralized identity providers. If you don't like the company, you still might like their vision.
I develop a proof of concept for flutter:https://github.com/friedger/flutterblockstackplugin

Again, this is just a wrapper for blockstack.js. I think the more apps it use the better the SDKs will become.

Most apps should work as PWAs anyway, I think.

Yes, tokens will be mined, for the latest plans see https://forum.blockstack.org/t/improved-mining-algorithm-min...
The more blockstack and the ecosystem is decentralized the less the tokens are a security.
Having a regulated token offering means hopefully that not only traders and hodlrs will buy the tokens but also real users, all the real users who use already the decentralized blockstack apps and all the users who will use them because they want to be in control of their data.
Keep going!