slipstream (htlc)

Starting to be convinced that we are seeing a sustained reversal in eth/btc. Not sure this chart will ever make a new ATH though

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The idea that DCF does not apply to assets which only accrue value in their endogenous token is correct. However, ETH does not entirely fit that definition. While it's true that staking issuance is entirely endogenous and does NOT create value, the burn side has real USD-denominated demand. ETH and gas are NOT the same asset. They have a floating exchange rate that is independent of the ETH/USD market. The price of ETH is not relevant to how many USD it costs to make a transaction. If ETHUSD drops, gas/ETH can still go up. Gas is denominated in dollars. Therefore the value accrued via the burn is sourced from an exogenous source, and DCF fully applies. To put this another way: imagine instead of Apple taking dollars for iPhone and then using those dollars to do a buyback, they decided to cut out the fluff and instead got you as the customer to buy and destroy stock in exchange for an iPhone. This is functionally identical: - You got an phone - tokens were destroyed - dollars went to the marginal seller

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Enjoyed the Bankless episode with Sam Kazemein. I don't have an opinion on if eth being a DCF asset was a mistake or not (don't care), but his read on the situation is exactly correct IMO - it's the same reasoning I used when choosing my relative allocations to eth vs btc

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I've been using both for a while now, here's my take. Community-wise neither are exactly my taste. Nostr is zealous leaning bitcoiners, while FC is degen leaning ethereans. Both have small pockets of actual normal people which are great. I don't post much, but my content happens to get much more engagement on nostr. I'm not sure if this is simply an audience preference or a protocol discoverability issue (eg high spam & priority mode on FC) Tech-wise there are trade-offs. FC uses a logical singleton which means it's forced to play the balancing act we are so familiar with when using blockchains: scale vs decentralization. Nostr bypasses this entirely but instead has to find solutions for fragmentation. If not addressed this manifests as "missing" notes and slow to compute follower/like counts. If I were to engineer a network myself, it would look similar to nostr's relay design, but with a DHT (something like pkarr) for solving fragmentation - in a similar way DNS solves the internets fragmentation

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Reading about Radicle. How does it do sybil protection for canonical branch signature thresholds? Are delegates permissioned?

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There is no such thing as "upload to ipfs". It's not a thing you can push data to. In the same way that a torrent with 1 seeder is not "uploaded to BitTorrent". You can make something _available_ via ipfs, but that is not where the file is stored!

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Is there a higher penetration of "hyperization" believe in the ethereum community than in bitcoin? That is, do more etherians believe eth will fully replace trust-based finance than bitcoiners believe btc will fully replace trust-based money?

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