And always the other one too.
I have a high paying full time job so the greater purpose is higher on the priority list than the monetary incentive.
An ethereum developer has the luxury of building things WITH the platform, vs building the platform.
Could you provide an example of the extra freedom from building on a separate, yet identical*, chain?
Yes two examples. One is the blocktime you brought up. I chose to slow down the blocktime to lower the orphan rate, making mining more efficient. Vitalik argued in the ethereum gitter that it was stupid and that it didnt matter if mining was inefficient that "ghost" solved the "problem". He is right that ghost makes the problem less of a problem but the problem is, blocks take time to propagate and ghost doesnt magically dilate time. The more time blocks get to propagate the less of a chance they are going to be orphaned. The less orphans, the greater chance a miner will get paid for the work they are doing.
Something we could have done was just increase the uncle limit, however then we are introducing more blockchain bloat.
Expanse also has a higher gas limit so we can create Dapps that do a little more. With the higher gas limit, the apps are doing more, we would need a little more time to make sure everything goes smoothly.
I suppose EXP gas is cheaper but most ETH devs would presumably run on a free testnet before going on the mainnet anyway.
Some do, some dont, Ethereum go devs made it very easy to create private networks with GETH. The higher up projects like R3 most likely wont use the ethereum mainnet for the same reason im not, they need the freedom to evolve if need be.
As you say they're building a platform and you are creating dapps and solutions which could have run on it.
They could run on both you are right and we will most likely be leveraging both.
Borderless.tech is to expanse what consensys is to ethereum
I give you props. I threw down the glove and you met the challenge.
Although I remain unswayed I admire your chutzpah. I could argue if you really wanted to change the world you'd use Ethereum, a much more popular platform. However if you believe doing so on Expanse is the way to go then that's entirely your prerogative. And if Ethereum starts going off the rails…
Blue-sky vision and helicopter-thinking*not identical - iirc you have slower blocktimes (not sure why though)
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