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https://www.ccn.com/cornell-professor-and-nick-szabo-criticize-eos-for-bugs-and-centralization/

From the article: “The EOS bug bounty is designed to catch simple coding errors, not conceptual errors with the protocol. EOS friends, did you get any help from an expert on consensus protocols? You know not to roll your own crypto. Why are you rolling your own consensus protocol? This is like not inventing your own scalpel, but then going ahead with brain surgery,” Sirer noted

The largest reason Cardano is my favorite crypto project is the amount of thought and research that has gone into keeping ADA decentralized, democratic, and independent of any single organization.

With that said, I was a little disheartened to find out recently that the Shelly update is being designed with the target of only having around 100 pools. What is the reasoning for only having 100?

Essentially that will mean that there are only 100 main nodes out there doing all of the processing (maybe a few dozen more with whales staking independently)... But why try and limit this at all?

In general, the ultimate goal of cryptocurrency and blockchain in my opinion, is to have more processing power and more security the more computers you have on the network staking (or mining).

EOS is getting a lot of flak recently (and rightfully so) for only having 21 nodes running their network... Us having 100 + (however many whales stake independently) isn't THAT much better. Why was this model chosen vs just having everyone stake independently without pools?

TLDR: Why are we targeting only having 100 or so nodes with pools, vs potentially having tens and hundreds of thousands of nodes if everyone stakes independently without pools?

Hi all

While learning more and more about the W3C DID initiative https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-spec/ I was wonder if it this technical feasable to implement a Cardano-identity-resolver and if in general this would make any sense for this project?

Any thoughts?

Thanks

Anyone know when this is happening?

Hi

Are there currently any "trusted" address generators for Cardano?

I found this project on GitHub: https://github.com/ilap/cwag

I've never done anything with Node, but judging from the code it seems ok. Not sure how the includes at the start of the JS work or where they come from, but I suspect they are some kind of official includes used by Node? Anyone here perhaps know Node that can verify if its ok to generate addresses with this code?

Seems like syncing is stuck at 98 %. Tried to submit a ticket for this but that didn't work and was told to manually submit a ticket , screen is now frozen. Anyone else having this prob?

Cheers

Hello. I would like to know if the developers of Cardano maybe could research & develop a wallet-extension for Brave-browser, similar to how Ethereum is supported with the Metamask-extension. I am using Metamask for half a year now, and I love the concept of browser-wallets.

https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/8t2bso/browser_extensions_for_other_native_blockchains/

Hey

Just looking for some clarification regarding "Use small amounts" in the disclaimer for the beta Linux version of Daedalus (https://forum.cardano.org/t/daedalus-on-linux-iohk-statement/10542)

Does this regard sending funds from the wallet? In other words, there should be no problem with the recovery phrase for setting up a wallet and transferring funds to it for cold/offline storage?