Somehow, over time, the word ‘staking’ has been repurposed and redefined. Instead of receiving rewards for contributing to chain security with collateral at stake, modern “staking” just seems to mean idk we give you more coins as a reward if you don’t sell your current coins lol. In the example of the staking mechanism proposal for ApeCoin, staking... See more
The modern financial system is a market for promises that involve large degree of trust. Human systems are incapable of executing all promises due to interests and goals that could go against them. The inability to commit to promise enforcement limits the set of promises that can be made. And this is the fundamental problem that blockchain as an al... See more
I don’t know who wants to hear this, but looking at prices, graphs, rainbows, previous halvings etc is all, very obviously, astrology for men
Ultimately it all comes down to macro and belief
Challenges of fully on-chain identity:1. scalability: need block space for saving identity data2. Interoperability: hard for cross-chain verifications as SBT is not transferrable3. privacy: data on-chain is not private by default