Mariano Sorgente (mar)

Great point. the last two gold cycles had 6-8 years of no new ATHs.

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AMMs are much more convenient than atomic swaps, since you don't have to find an exact match for your trade. You are trading against a liquid pool that will always take the opposite side of your trade. However, atomic swaps can work trustlessly cross chain, while AMMs can't.

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It’s extremely tempting to add more features to your blockchain / smart contract, to prevent attack X or to improve performance. However, this is often a bad idea. The more complexity you add to your system, the higher the chances that something will go wrong, and the greater...

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like Infura/Alchemy, you can query a random node to ask for data, and validate that the data is hashed into the blockchain. More nodes means more users can do this (aka running a light client). Usually the performance is significantly worse than the centralized providers though.

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