Yep that’s the reason for potentially tying to peepeth in the first place. I have some possible ideas for how to incentivize the tagger to ensure the tagee tags somebody else, but would prefer notification if possible

@bevan I'm creating a blockchain tag game ("Hashtag") where you tag somebody by sending them the "it" NFT. For the game to work, tagees need to be notified, perhaps by sending them a peep. Think something like that could work with the way peepeth is structured?

Alternatively, are there subsets of addresses for which the owner would be notified of an incoming message?

For example: addresses with peepeth accounts could be peeped at if receiving a transaction
- other eth-based social networks?
- do other dapps have notifications?

Does anybody have an idea for a good way of notifying an owner of an arbitrary ethereum address that they received a transaction? Trust Wallet has push notifications (which is awesome), but what if the address I'm sending to doesn't use a wallet with notifications?

Crap, that didn't come out as I wanted. Here's the actual comic:

If you appreciate this, you're my peeps

https://xkcd.com/1985/

“Everything is code”

#westworldcomputer

Any suggestions for killing time in airplane waiting on the tarmac? Been stuck here for over 2 hours already and running out of ways to entertain myself.

3/ The goal would be to keep address delegation controlled by the user and abstracted away from the dapps. Otherwise you'd have to set up the delegation for each dapp you're using.

2/ For example, when peepeth requests your "main" address to sign a transaction, that request gets forwarded to a delegate address. Basically, this could allow you to log into a dapp using the delegate account in metamask or trust

1/ Actually, question for all you #solidity devs out there: would it be possible to create a smart contract (or some other tool?) that delegates one or more addresses to sign txs for a "main" address.

Yea, this is interesting. My guess is that right now your peepeth username is just a mapping in the peepeth smart contract to your sign-up eth address. Solidity only natively supports 1:1 mappings, but I'm sure @bevan could figure out a way to map multiple addresses together.

Thanks! Btw, I subscribed a couple days ago to your dapp university youtube channel, and looking forward to watching the videos.

And I'm curious to hear your take on the stateless contract design pattern...

Mostly due to the "stateless" smart contracts the dapp uses, which significantly reduces storage and therefore gas costs. Puts the onus on the front end to parse the transaction inputs rather than be fed by smart contract events. See more here: https://peepeth.com/front_end

Genius! I went to several of those arcades during a vacation last year to Japan, and I can report that those games are virtually impossible...unless you have a magnet, I guess :)

All good points, and all concerns. To the extent that one views Lightning's success and Bitcoin's value as anticorrelated, though one would classify that as more of a concern for Lightning than as a concern for Bitcoin itself.

It's probably actually satoshi

By centralization do you mean the network hubs? That's definitely a concern, and I'm interested to see how it all ends up playing out. Are there any network stats available yet?

Oops I misspelled "hodlers"

lol at the idea of a typo on a term originally created by a typo!

"worse for the world" or "worse for bitcoin holders"?

Funny thing is that this is pretty close to what Kodak's ICO was (is?) related to. Actually makes a lot of sense, but so many people (including me!) view Kodak as a lumbering joke that it got panned.

"The service uses a blockchain to timestamp submissions of each original photograph from a user with a real-name identity and store data associated with the images on a distributed network."

https://www.coindesk.com/search-giant-baidu-unveils-blockchain-stock-photo-platform

Epicenter is my favorite. In-depth interviews with intelligent questions, and not afraid to challenge the interviewee.

Thanks - good point. But I believe that's still "stateless contract" architecture, where the smart contract doesn't actually store anything itself, which is how gas costs are so low. If Ethereum closes this "loophole" the contract would need to be updated to do the actual storage

You can tokenize it with an ERC721 and then sell/trade that. The hash of the digital file itself (plus a timestamp or something), cryptographically signed by the artist's private key, could be the actual token value.

You can tokenize it with an ERC721 and then sell/trade that. The hash of the digital file itself (plus a timestamp or something), cryptographically signed by the artist's private key, could be the actual token value.

But that would require a change of the peepeth smart contract to store the IPFS hash of the content instead of the content itself, right?

@bevan what are your thoughts related to private messaging? Diametrically opposed to peepeth's mission, or just a technological challenge to keep the messages private?

@bevan #suggestion 😎

@vikmeup any chance you're looking for product management help? I've been really liking Trust and would love to help out!

Could you consider this a loophole that ethereum might want to close? My understanding is that miners still need to store the information, but they’re not being reimbursed for that storage with gas. If ethereum changes that, could be a risk for contracts with this architecture

I'm really digging the ability to have multiple "front-ends" to your same ethereum account(s) at the same time. I suspect that portability will be super important for dapp adoption.

But I hope somebody figures out how to do transaction notifications intelligently across wallets

Ha! Successfully on peepeth mobile!

(via Trust)

The Iceman Peepeth

Haha yea, would definitely make the front ends complex! Especially with the stateless contracts that require parsing every transaction for the actual data.

I'm dabbling (#dalbbing? :) ). Product manager by trade.

The sub-communities would each need their own smart contract

Front ends could also handle discovery services. The most obvious would be something like reddit's front page, but there are a million approaches to curation that could be generated

Front ends could also handle discovery services. The most obvious would be something like reddit's front page, but there are a million approaches to curation that could be generated

Perhaps with one smart contract keeping track of user information and the mechanism to spin up new "community" smart contracts, which each act as the back end to their respective communities. Front ends could then choose how to handle the various communties

I wonder if we can do better. @alec made a good analogy to reddit, which basically shards into arbitrarily many subcommunities. A smart contract backend might actually be well-suited to that kind of architecture

Product manager for hire, here :)

I like it! I wonder if there's a way to do that here. Peepit?

How can we keep the small community feel as the number of peepers grows? At the least, good (decentralized) moderation tools are a requirement

"Spencerer Spence"

Your dad's name is Spencer Spence? That's incredible!

Also thinking about how my behavior on peepeth is totally different than on twitter, where I lurk much much more. I wonder if that will change as the number of peeps grows out of this early small-community stage...

Oh you know, just thinking about the coincidence that you share my brother's first name and my nickname is your last name :)

Take your time - I went through no more than 1 lesson a day

Just read about stateless contracts from this post by @james

Good stuff! Definitely involves some trade-offs (as the article mentions), but a clever approach to gas conservation!

https://medium.com/@childsmaidment/stateless-smart-contracts-21830b0cd1b6

I just finished lesson 6 last week. It's a great tutorial! I didn't know much if anything about solidity and have very little js experience, but after CryptoZombies I feel ready to actually write some smart contracts. I'm sure you can do it, too!