Weekly General Discussion - June 26, 2023 <-> July 02, 2023

permissionless, 11 months ago

Good to see an EthFam alternative here. Is this one of the bigger alt communities besides the Mavs Discord?

kbrot, 11 months ago

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.

equal-jellyfish1, 11 months ago

Is learning Rust a good idea to get involved in coding in the Ethereum space?

Or anyone with work experience got any advice / want to get in touch I'd hugely appreciate it.

btoast777, 11 months ago

Depends on where you come from, skill-wise:

• 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.

equal-jellyfish1, 11 months ago

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!

fiah, 11 months ago

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

LaughingMime, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Can't help but feel this is an inflection point.
If you made it this far without losing everything, you are going to make it.

fiah, 11 months ago

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

haddockseyes, 11 months ago

Maybe a weird question, but has anyone tokenized Steam redemption codes?

LaughingMime, 11 months ago

steam pretty anti crypto/anti nft. It would be a risky move, they'd probably find a way to null anything sold in such a manner

SilentJohn, 11 months ago

the company (steam) doesn’t allow game items that could have real-world value

I'm sorry, but wtf do they consider the steam marketplace?

Steam is just another company that's lived long enough to become the villain. Epic (very pro crypto) will happily continue to take marketshare away from Steam.

Diligent-Mouse3679, 11 months ago

To make this work in a reduced trust, crypto friendly way, you would need some kind of mechanism to prove that the key the seller has is still valid and working with some kind of zero knowledge proof. Otherwise, it is just another web2 key market that takes crypto for payment.

refugeddit, 11 months ago

Ohhh I like the colors on the charts, come on give me some more

T0Bii, 11 months ago

Will you create a new weekly? :D
I've checked out kbin APIs but to be honest it was very sad.
Maybe we can automate the creation of the weekly.

refugeddit, 11 months ago

On it!