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类似 bitcointalk 的论坛
主要是altcoin

前几天有个币的客服加了我
给我详细地介绍币
我觉得挺贴心的
真是非常仔细
后来说如果要买token的话把钱寄到这个地址就行了
我一看怎么和网站上不一样
就知道是骗子
但后骂了一顿就没理了

但没把它删掉
结果接下来这两个星期它可忙
每天换头像，写某个新的币的客服等等
从它的头像和名字里我还真的发现了不少新币
真希望telegram上多几个这样的骗子朋友
这样我可以更好地把握现在什么比较热

闪电网络进入公测

众所周知，区块链现在最大的问题就是拥塞，这导致交易费高昂，交易缓慢，不仅让主干币(bitcoin,eth)奇慢无比，除了作为投资和运行别的币的工具没什么别的用处，也催生了无数号称能解决这个问题的代币。闪电网络是接下来在区块链真正会发生的事，号称可以把小额转款做到非常快和便宜。（其原理和 PoS 有点像，就是说双方各抵押 0.5 BTC，然后双方就可以快速地进行 0.5 BTC 信用额度之内的转款，一旦发现作弊就没收作弊者的押金。）这个技术也没有特别牛逼，但它如果成功带来的商业应用是非常可观的，可以完全改变现在区块链的辐射范围。高频低耗小额转款技术成熟之后，区块链剑指 Visa/Mastercard 等信用机构就只是时间问题了。现在闪电网络总算进入公测，尽管还有很多不完善的地方，但是希望还是很明显的。

和币圈的很多别的事情比起来，我觉得解决流量是即本质又可行的一个点，所以也是当前区块链的最强音。

欢迎讨论。

（关于闪电网络我看的是 https://lightning.network/，应该也有中文的文档，欢迎交流～）


币圈的其他一些我觉得还比较有意思的事情：
- 怎么解决kyc和身份认证，这个问题和流量一样重要，但目前看来没有一条清晰的路，而且从技术的角度来看太凌乱
- 国际政治经济与区块链的互动，从加拿大/俄罗斯吸引挖矿，到委内瑞拉发行石油币，可以看出区块链的国际地位上升。是否会有小国一夜暴富？国际规则向来混乱而微妙。区块链尽管是一种去中心化的技术，但背后承诺的却是更加融合的国际秩序。像一张网一样把一堆心不甘情不愿的国家兜在一起，一切宏观经济的基石，从税收到贸易壁垒，都收到一定程度的动摇。不管有没有区块链，等待人类的不是人类大同就是第三次世界大战，区块链在里面起的作用令人唏嘘。回看今天各国的姿态，从故意装作没看见的，到唯恐天下不乱的，惟妙惟肖。

I think the current debates ultimately boils down to one thing: managing a growing and vibrant community like BTT is hard. There are now more economic incentives to level up for signature campaigns and the system allowed it to be gamed by posting shit-posts. To close this loophole the merit system was introduced, which may or may not work; the forum is waiting to see what happens next.

From my point of view, the challenge is to effectively promoting quality content / members without discouraging the "spirit of freedom". We have a good lesson to learn from the early internet which underwent the exactly phase. There were a lot of garbage content online and it was hard to find useful things. The problem was later well solved by Google's PageRank algorithm -- pretty much a decentralized "merit-system". The more merit a webpage has, the more merit it adds to those webpages it links to.

What's different between PageRank and the current merit system is that PageRank is decentralized while the current merit system is centralized. PageRank is decentralized in that there are no webpage that is considered "source of merit". Every webpage can contribute merits to its downstream links no matter how little merit it can contribute. I think this is what people are complains about. Right now if 10000 newbie members likes a post, the poster won't get merit. The poster only get merit if a senior member likes it. This might be an exaggerated example but it reveals where the system might be improved.

A natural thought is to implement something like a like or +1 system where a like from A to B's post is considered a link from A to B; a PageRank algorithm can then be ran to figure out everyone's merit. However, even if this is the case, it'd take a long time for the forum to accumulate likes to obtain meaningful results. But still I think this is the right direction and I'd love to have a like button to click when I like a post. Over time, the forum might got enough likes data to evaluate this option.

With that said, there is difference between webpage score and BTT merit/levels -- webpage score fluctuates while BTT merit/levels monotonically increase. So when we ran the PageRank algorithm, we can lower cap everyone's merit with their existing merits. I think this is still an improvement, because I only needs to focus on likes while the system figures out the merit outcome for me. I also think it is good to give all newbies a non-zero merit to start with.

Last but not least, even with PageRank there are SEO algorithms that can game the system. But that still would be much harder comparing to having no merit control at all.

Thoughts?

It'd be very interesting kind of token, more like the peer-review type of page-rank reputation system.

maybe at some point level/merit on btt is worth so much money that people are willing to trade off cost for trust...

just some thoughts...

因为现在比特币是在一个逐渐被主流接受的过程中
投的人越来越多
政策也会跟上
回调是必须的
但毕竟进场的人越来越多

再者和郁金香白银不同的是
比特币代表着未来
这个技术其实大多数人还不懂
而郁金香和白银被炒高的时候其实没什么人不懂这是个什么东西

只要大多数人不懂比特币
就一定会怀观望怀疑态度
只要大多数人怀疑
它的风险就撑得起它的上涨空间

明年这个时候 比特币说不定就已经十万刀了
周边设施也会跟上
比如比特币不再只是投资工具
也可以用来购物
如果走到大街上看到一杯咖啡半个毫比特币不要觉得惊奇

https://github.com/deeponion/deeponion/graphs/contributors