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Electric Sheep is a news (RSS) reader that contains no tracking, no ads, and no algorithms. It shows posts from feeds that you follow in reverse chronological order.I made it to meet my own needs but wonder if anyone else has similar requirements as me. I spent a lot of time on the layout, colours and fonts to make it highly readable. There's simple Today, This Week and Latest groupings. ...

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Re:What Is Cardano? on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:30AM (#26011159)
I’m not sure that I’ll ever recover from being called moderately smart but I’ll try not to take it personally haha

The reason I mentioned peer reviewed research was more to provide context to the timeline and roadmap rather than to argue that it was better. Something I’ve seen a few times is that Cardano is a ghost chain which I don’t think is accurate given where they are at in their roadmap. If they don’t gain adoption after deploying smart contracts then they could become one but personally I don’t think that’s a fair characterisation at this point.

DPoS, staking, smart contracts, native tokens, metadata etc aren’t new but I do think there’s some interesting implementation details that make what Cardano are doing interesting.

Anyway, it’s not my intention to get into a religious war around crypto projects and I have no particular affiliation with Cardano or investment in it.