One thing a lot of people do not like about the fediverse is that you can only sign in on the instance you signed up on.
If only there was a simple solution, a way to login everywhere and ensure that it's always the same person.
Something public that could identify the person and something private the person could use to prove it's them.
Soo.. Who's going to build 'sign in with Ethereum' (or public/private keys) for the fediverse?
yeah true, but so far (knock on wood) I’ve had a near seamless experience with my one lemmy account. At first kbin.social wasn’t connected of course so I have a kbin.social account as well, but I don’t need it anymore
@kbrot thanks for the liquity recommendation. I feel like an idiot for using MKR all these time. I seriously have no idea why LUSD is not used more with the low fees that they are giving.
When there is a crash and you need to delever, LUSD tends to go up in price a penny or two, which can really increase your repayment costs relative to shorter term maker loans.
For sure, liquity is pretty great. As to why it's underutilized, it's similar to what mouse is saying. Particularly in the early days, LUSD commonly ranged from 0.97 to 1.03. It was always fine in the end, but it requires that one extra step of making sure you're repaying at a beneficial time (or buying troves at a beneficial time). And of course, any add'l step makes a protocol slightly less tasty. I think the range is much smaller these days with added liquidity.
Just checking that everyone has purchased their copy of Paul Brody's Ethereum for Business (ISBN 978 195 489 2101). I'm currently working my way through it and it's very good indeed.
For me, it's the number of carefully researched case studies. These lend the book relevancy for our current time (future editions will need to keep up to date) but also show that Ethereum is being used to solve real world problems.
Most folks I talk to don't have any kind of grasp of why decentralisation is important. They want a service that just works without any kind of hard thinking required. The book explains why decentralisation is so important as we move away from web2 to web3.
Thank you, I’ll have to look into it. I dislike that Ethereum keeps getting painted as a solution in search of a problem, when there are tangible use cases we should keep in our back pocket as talking points for the skeptics.
He was indeed! I like to think that some of the legacy /r/ethtrader and /r/ethfinance OGs moved over here anyway and are starting afresh with a new identity. I sure did :)
it is a kind of self-reinforcing feel good feeling / statement, so whenever I feel something like that I try to remind myself that I’m not being objective. I guess that’s where TA can help, if you can actually stay objective when doing TA
If you're more on the web development side, and want to interact with contracts and such, it's probably best to learn a library like ethers.js or viem, since it already uses JS/TS and you just have to learn the concepts of wallets/providers/transactions, etc.
If you mean wanting to actually get involved with smart contract development itself, to me it depends if you have any other reason to learn Rust. Solidity is typically the most approachable route to go, especially with tools like Hardhat, but if you have plans to do other kinds of back-end development with Rust specifically, then it might make more sense to start there and learn.
Thanks for the reply. I'm interested in backend and code efficiency more, but I like both; I guess I'll just start learning and see what fits with my skillset!
Rust is not a good entry point for anything right now, I’d say, regardless of your experience level. Either you know you need / want Rust, or you shouldn’t be touching it
instead, I recommend finding a small project that you’re interested in and then familiarizing yourself with whatever it is that is being used in that project. If you have 0 experience then perhaps there’s a 101 course somewhere for the language / frameworks being used in that project, that way you can apply what you’ve learned immediately in understanding the project you’re interested in
I like to think so. Logically there's got to be an Ethereum community on Mastodon somewhere considering how large crypto Twitter was, but I've not found it yet.
Most people are in crypto for the money, and when a different asset goes up relative to ETH, they care about how much money they would have made if they had been long the other asset. It's really that simple.
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