"A front end can be blocked or censored." ...

... for now. In the future with ENS and Swarm - or whatever other cool decentralized solutions will emerge - hopefully this weakness will be fixed.

Congratulations!

Thank you for building.

Well, is this supposed to be a joke? Wow... I don't know what to say. We're all a bunch of crypto enthusiasts here ...

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Of course you need to use a pickaxe rather than a shovel. This is obvious.

#lkie

@pinastri You're still on reddit, but not Peeping much... why not? Hope to see you around here more!

#DearFuturePeepers

In 2018 Twitter hadn't yet adopted the Peepeth backend infrastructure. They could actually disable accounts and censor content. Crazy, huh?

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Not a big trader, but I always enjoy your thoughtful posts on /r/ethtrader

You're certainly one of the people that's keeping the signal to noise ratio moving in the right direction over there.

Would love to have you Peeping more.

Yes! It is a global account. Self-managed online identities are really underrated. We need better options for account recovery, though.

This will likely take the form of proxy addresses / delegations. Right now securing all those devices is challenging and critically important.

Hello @makon!

Man. I use that word rarely. I bet you do too.

Large parts of the organizational structure of the world are broken - they have been hijacked by greed and power. You're not alone.

Good people haven't given up, that's the good news.

Ensō for the raw emotion. Please be careful.

If people have to trust you /not/ to ban (delete) their stuff, then why wouldn't they just trust you to handle transfers and ownership on your own database?

If you give me the power to remove the middle man - but give that obsolete middle man a delete button... is that progress?

"...and brings us closer to StarTrek."

#lkie

The more the merrier - you're absolutely right about that!

I thought that Coinbase acquired the entire Cipher project. At least that's what it sounded like when I spoke with @sid on the TokenDaily Deep Dive a month or so ago.

A Google search shows this : https://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-acquires-ethereum-wallet-startup-cipher-browser/

Oh, yeah. I'm back. Thanks for noticing - and for all the peeps you've created! WOW.

#PeepLikeJvck

Thanks @Zanzi!

I appreciate it.

That said, Toshi is open source and the devs are on here too. Glad we have options.

Toshi just moves a little slower and happens to be part of giant company buying up IP and talent in the blockchain space.

Trust is a way to keep them on their toes! Install both!

Call me old fashioned - but Trust received a grant from the Ethereum Foundation and @vikmeup has said it will forever remain an independent project. I like to support the project that promises to give the big businesses some competition....

Oh oh! Pick me!

Cipher was bought by Coinbase to be rolled into Toshi. So, "Cipher" prob won't be a thing.

Trust is adding features faster than you can dream them up. And if you do dream one up before it's on the roadmap - the dev @vikmeup can make it a reality in short order.

So, do you attach a license to that token? What are the benefits to the purchaser? Can you sell the same piece again? Will you?

@ookimaki

Welcome!

Another Twitter refugee. You're going to love it here.

Don't forget - it's more fun if you bring a few of your friends... mostly so you can show them what the future looks like. No shortage of cool people to share ideas with already.

Keep on peepin' 🐧

Before I even watch the video I'm just going to say Brave is working on another model!

Hidden costs aren't doing good things for journalism, democracies, or freedom. There is a fine line between the internet being "free" (paid for by ads) and being dangerous.

I'll watch now 🍿

* eternal ?

Like everything else on the blockchain - by designing incentives to punish 'bad' behavior (maybe staking something to post a review) and reward 'good' behavior (maybe some ETH for successfully identifying trolls). Different frontends can take different approaches.

This is very cool! Love your handle, too!

Please, keep sharing.

I think AI, DAOs, and all the open data on public blockchains will make the world much different in the next two decades than we can probably imagine right now. If not, then none of them will have realized their potential...

...and I will become a conspiracy theorist...

I knew you'd come around! j/k

I actually enjoyed thinking that Chinese restaurants may be able to exists off-chain. I don't want a world of Chinese food vending machines, tbh.

That's not to say the employees won't just all be "gig" workers that are organized on-chain though. 🤷

Bevan codes in the forest. I just call it as I see it.

Thanks for your work. ;-)

May you always have the freedom to explore what, where, and when you want, sir.

If you wanted to be a professional reviewer, maybe the hashes could be public and people could pay a few cents to read your professional opinion on a product or service. If it get re-posted without your permission - you have copyright proof there on the blockchain.

Many models!

I think reviews are a perfect fit for the blockchain. Especially if payment TXs could be linked. Honest, well thought out reviews are valuable - they shouldn't just make Amazon rich. Everyone should have access to them - and help identify fakes!

No need to wonder... 1438!

Check out https://peepeth.com/stats

There will be models of dApps that are "free" in the mainstream sense. Depending on the dApp design, the service itself could pay TX costs or "pay" its users ETH for seeing ads, etc.

The data of successful dApps will (hopefully) be open for others to build with regardless. Win.

This should have the nice side effect of taking away a huge advantage of existing internet behemoths with troves of siloed data. Leveling the playing field is good - lessening the ability of a single organization to influence democracies or steer personal decisions is *great*.

That makes me want to spin up a VM and see why. Must be really annoying...

Can you try to install the Brave browser? It has MetaMask built in.

WHOA?! This is not supposed to be a thing. You enter the recovery phrase ONCE and the wallet is saved and protected with a password. The password is all that should be required when you restart the browser and open MetaMask subsequently.

These are all things we need to hear! Thank you.

The dApp space is newer than even the blockchain space - and widespread support just isn't there yet. Devs are still experimenting, figuring out best practices, etc.

Glad you're here to see it all take shape!

I think you'll need another browser then, for desktop dApp stuff. One compatible with MetaMask - or with it built in, a la Brave.

Eventually most browsers and/or OSes will likely support blockchain identities natively - until then, it can be a little... an effort in flexibility.

Is the infrastructure there yet? To get a dApp into the hands of users, we don't just need smart contract capabilities on the blockchain. We need the browsers (esp mobile browsers) for the users to interact with the dApps... Ethereum seems to be ahead of the curve in that respect

Just keep peeping. ;-)

... and much less open than they once were ...

So, are you saying it doesn't take *too* long to introduce a new platform? Or that it shouldn't be too hard to undo twelve years worth of building a conception about how microblogging should work?

You lost me a little bit!

Yeah - I'm of the opinion that social media can be made better with an open backend. It's hard to get people to imagine something they know - but completely rearchitected in a way that changes incentives, power structures, and interactions in non-trivial ways.

They can mine your data if they want - but you needn't link it to your identity. Ideally you won't even need an email address. Also, you will have options for advertisement-free frontends - the open backend guarantees that.

Besides that, immutability and mobility are priceless.

If everyone gets excited about decentralization right up until someone actually has to pay to use it - then whatever they are holding... doesn't really seem very valuable. Without people using this stuff, it's not worth much. Too bad people seem to prefer hidden costs.

*sigh*

By most metrics - aside form market-cap - Ethereum is already the number one blockchain. Addresses, transactions, developers, etc. The "threat" isn't Bitcoin - it's scaling and adoption. Bitcoin moves slowly intentionally, the upstarts won't. Exciting times indeed.

Nope - because it's too easy to "lose your keys" or "forget your pin" and pretend the assets are lost forever. We'll probably have Court ETH address watchers though - to encourage behaving amicably. Assuming the spouse even knows the address the assets are associated with.

In the spirit of being verbose - can you list some tasks that you think will remain less expensive to perform in a centralized manner? After a decentralized architecture is in place for a task - essentially outsourcing everything has to be cheaper than employees and shareholders.

I don't think centralized orgs will be able to compete with decentralized ones in the long run. The structure is expensive.

In the meantime, decentralization needs to get better at easily keeping secrets, somehow restoring access to misplaced accounts, and general ease of use.

I posted on reddit, asking people already "in the know" about ETH why they aren't joining...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/8khurr/hey_why_arent_you_on_peepethcom_the_real_crypto/

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