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Ask HN: Who's working on/at DOGE and what do they say about it?

5 points·by countermeasure·2 năm trước·4 comments

Questions for Australia amid reports US could ban TP-Link router sales

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3 points·by countermeasure·2 năm trước·1 comments

Ask HN: Do you or those you know have US election contingency plans?

13 points·by countermeasure·2 năm trước·26 comments

Ask HN: What have you bought or sold using a cryptocurrency?

6 points·by countermeasure·3 năm trước·8 comments

Ask HN: Name a non-cryptocurrency blockchain project in use in the real world?

16 points·by countermeasure·3 năm trước·44 comments

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·2 năm trước·discuss
He's the reason I asked :)
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·3 năm trước·discuss
I've found a few articles and some discussion about this on social media from 2021, but not much since then.

Any idea whether that project in Ethiopia is still alive?
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·3 năm trước·discuss
It sounds like "private blockchain" means very few copies of the blockchain, or even just one?

If it does, why was it decided to use a blockchain rather than a traditional database?
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·3 năm trước·discuss
How?
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·3 năm trước·discuss
Thanks for the links to examples.

These voting and real estate securitisation projects look to be quite small-scale, but they also seem to be real-world and not prototypes, so they are what I asked for :)
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·3 năm trước·discuss
Okay, that's cute :)
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·3 năm trước·discuss
I can see that IPFS is decentralised/P2P, but I don't see how a blockchain is part of it.

Am I missing something?
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·3 năm trước·discuss
I hadn't heard of LBRY before.

A quick look at it has me thinking that it's a content distribution platform, and the blockchain element is that it has its own token that can be used to pay content creators. Does that sound right?
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·3 năm trước·discuss
I've always used Google Camera on GOS for this reason.

It's the one Google app I use. I believe I have it sandboxed effectively, although I'll admit that I'm not knowledgeable enough to really confirm that.

Installing Google Camera to be able to have a good camera was a compromise I was prepared to make, and three years later I'm still happy with that compromise, although it might or might not be one that others would accept on their own devices.

@sneak, was there anything other than the camera about GOS that you considered a shortcoming?
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·3 năm trước·discuss
Good call. I've been using GrapheneOS for the last three years, and I recommend it highly.
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·3 năm trước·discuss
Okay, NFTs, fair enough :)

They often run off the Ethereum ledger, am I right?
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·3 năm trước·discuss
HN seems like the ideal place for this question to me.

Your assumption that I'm not hoping for good-faith answers is incorrect and unfair.
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·3 năm trước·discuss
I have, but looking at their website doesn't get me closer to an answer to my question.

They describe themselves as "Enabling developers, enterprises, and organizations to collaboratively build, share, and enhance blockchain frameworks and tools."

So Hyperledger sounds like a framework/platform for building blockchains?

So I'm wondering what blockchains have been built with it, and made it past the prototype stage to be in use in the real world?
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·3 năm trước·discuss
Even though I use it every day, I'd never thought of a Git repo as a blockchain before.

But each commit chains to the one before it though, so I suppose it is.

Thanks for this new perspective!