Ze Chermans are nice people with excellent sausages and some truly wonderful beer
However they mst be kept away from marching bands at all costs.
They have never learned that marching east always ends in tears.
Mines a Weissbier Danke schön
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Better watch out third time is the charm 
I’m buying shares in Rheinmetall as soon as it’s pay day
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Anyone wondering why Trump is keen for a crypto reserve held by the US gov.? Well we may have our answer …
“Representatives of President Trump’s family have reportedly been discussing acquiring a stake in the US arm of crypto exchange Binance as the former Coinbase competitor (banned in the US in 2019) plots its re-entry into the world’s largest and most pro-crypto economy.”
What, are you suggesting Trump is going to use his influence to make his family even richer this time around. How could you 
Anyhow I better not get into US politics since there is a thread already for that. This post was just meant as humour only.
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Go language is good. I heared that Libp2p go version is also showing a good performance.
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How much needs to be stored permanently and at what cost? I suspect that most big data producers will manage their own data as that will be the cheapest solution.
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I learned today (well - yesterday… But I was so exhausted that I fell asleep yesterday evening while typing this 
) that there is something called ‘transfer from’ that is implemented by ant and with a previously issued permit (for a specified amount) someone else (e.g. A dev or a smart contract…) can move the ant around (without having my private key) without the need for eth on the sending address.
I think this and multisig stuff opens the door for new applications/comfort functions for users in my mind and potentially significantly reduces how much/if at all a user needs to know and understand about the ugly world of erc20, tx fees, gas limits,…
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So in practice I could also pre pay a bunch of my own uploads and pay the gas just once for the prepayment?
No - the one using the “transfer from” transaction must pay eth for the operation when the token are being moved - there’s no free transactions in erc20 land - it just resolves the issue of someone not being able to move token because there’s not enough eth
Both the permit and the transfer from do cost gas/eth
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What would be super cool would be the recipient having to pay the gas. So clients etc. can do transfer from and if we can make it that nodes get the ANT sitting waiting for them that they can pay in gas to receive.
In terms of the supply/demand thing it would make more sense I recon if that were to happen. Apps and users could work away ignoring gas etc. and node operators know the ANT is there and can get it when fees are lowest or it makes economic sense to do so.
Interesting and no this is defo not a ,maidsafe company idea or plan, but just me personally pondering as I am suer keen users could use this with least friction. I see node operators being OK with some extra work perhaps, but the cost of ANT has to be good enough for operators to pay gas to get it.
At least his is an area well worth poking at @riddim and could be very interesting
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So a person with ANT on their address can ‘write a cheque in ANT to anyone’ and the recipient can, cash the cheque and transfer the ANT by paying the Gas fee.
That’s very nice for the cheque writer, but a bit of a risk for the recipient so recipients have to trust people they don’t know.
Can this be done in a way that protects the recipient? Without that, recipients will need some incentive or extra reward (e.g. a premium on the payment amount) to compensate for the risk.
This is the problem, they can’t know this can they? It may be there when they receive the notification, but can’t be sure it will stay there.
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I think if we can make this true then it could be super useful in a lot of ways. But yes, I don’t know if we can make it true.
If we can then it leaves room for a native token integration that could be super cool. Of course ignoring the fact that has no exchanges yet.
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I’m hoping autonomi gets its own exchange that answers to nobody. I had my bank refuse a payment to Coinbase today for my own protection, apparently I’m not allowed to send my own money where I want 
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That is part of the problem, large regulated exchanges are being treated like that. So small exchanges we could persuade don’t stand a chance. It’s all a total mess for sure and is hammering innovation but with all the fraud it’s a 2 sided coin here.
I feel though is an exchange is regulated and therefor OK with regulators then banks should not have the ability to prevent use of them. I am sure that can be fixed/regulated easily.
Still leaves the small startup projects with no recourse though as they need to be huge for those exchanges to consider and that is a chicken and egg one for sure.
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I get that but the amount of hoops I’ve just gone through to send the money then they still say no is unbelievable. I’ve just learned NatWest only allows £1000 a day and no more than £5000 a month to any crypto exchange. It’s frightening they have so much control over MY money.
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Who’s going to tell him? 
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No need to hope. I’m 100% sure it will happen - just will likely be an independent project.
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This video is definitely an exaggeration I think, but 2-3 years and I suspect it’s true.
Today “I” wrote (had an AI write) a small program for me in python. I was using an older non-thinking small model and it didn’t make a single error - I did have it make a few changes as it developed - because I realized some optimizations that it didn’t see, but otherwise pretty good and technically no errors. I think a newer thinking model that’s able to correct it’s mistakes and come up with optimizations could manage a fairly normal sized project - especially these new agentic model hacks that can really organize things at a meta level.
Enjoy speedy transfers with 0 transaction fee to other MEXC users using email, mobile number or UID.
If we had this on the Network for ‘business accounts’, it could compete with merchant’s fiat costs…
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I think together with a smart contract this can even be used to implement a 2 party double deposit trustless escrow secured payment flow.
- Seller deposits value he’s selling + buyer pays 2x the price (buyer gives permit to the smart contract, seller sends the amount and initiates the trade)
- Seller sends out the goods
- When the buyer receives the good he signs everything went fine and this can probably be checked by the smart contract and sends back the security to both + the earned ant to the seller (or any differently split amounts if there were issues and the buyer/seller reached a settlement)
Probably easier for all following operations would be to use a smart contract creating an atomic swap ant to eth so the ant holder just gets enabled to pay for his fees (otherwise he’s always depending on others to submit his permits/move his funds/submit the successful delivery etc …)
Atomic swap with permit:
- A service provider / someone on a marketplace offers to swap
- Swapper signs a permit (valid 10 minutes) for the swapping smart contract and a signed message about the eth value to get for it and gives it to the seller.
- The seller then sends the agreed amount of eth, together with the permit and the signed agreed amounts of eth and ant to the smart contract, which (if everything is correct just fetches the ant, sends it to the seller and the eth to the buyer)
… We need some identifier for the one specific trade so a large seller cannot just replace the amount with another valid signature of a smaller eth amount of a precious trade… I guess I need to investigate smart contracts a bit but this sounds simple enough to me…
After that initial permit trick to get eth for ant to the address one can probably call DEXes for further swaps and is pretty independent…
… And then one could just use a known and tested implementation of the trustless escrow flow (probably like GitHub - ANRGUSC/dual-deposit-escrow-contract-simple: A simple, illustrative implementation of a double deposit escrow smart contract in Solidity, intended to protect buyers and sellers of any physical or digital good or service from cheating each other. … Didn’t look close but I’m sure there’s “trustworthy implementations” out there)
Edit/ps: Okay this one is probably rather questionable… “Please note that this contract, which was generated with assistance from ChatGPT, is presented as an illustration only. It may be vulnerable to reentrancy attacks, front-running attacks, DoS attacks, insecure deposit amounts, and no time limit for delivery. Please use caution when deploying this contract in a live environment.”
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