Best of Crypto — December 2021

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    Avatar of hashnodeHashnode·4y

    GitHub Copilot is here to stay

    AI used to be a buzzword, Just as Crypto or Blockchain is today. It was thrown around inflationary until everyone knew the term but did not really know what it was all about. Products were meant to have AI as a marketing stunt while not really including the AI they overpromised. But then there was GitHub Copilot.

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    Avatar of devtoDEV·4y

    My roadmap in web 3

    A Web 3.0 from september 24, of 2021. I got curious about the term from the hype on twitter but it was more hype than truly helpful information. I decided to investigate and learn about blockchain, crypto, smart contracts and decentralized apps (dapps) The following lists express the order of my learning process.

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    Avatar of hnHacker News·4y

    Is web3 bullshit?

    Web3 is a vision of a decentralized, user-owned internet built on the blockchain. Elon Musk and Stephen Diehl are among the most vocal critics of the idea. Read Max is a newsletter about the future, appearing on a Thursday due to a series of sitcom-level mishaps.

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    Avatar of tcTechCrunch·4y

    WTF is .xyz? – TechCrunch

    .xyz is one of the top five top-level domains (TLDs) in the world by traffic, according to the company’s own DNS data. It was created to “provide users around the world competition and choice when it comes to their domain name,” and is “the first truly generic domain extension with no inherent meaning,’ CEO Daniel Negari said.

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    Avatar of hnHacker News·4y

    An NFT without a Blockchain. No gas fees. No Eth. No gatekeepers

    In essence, an NFT is a statement that the buyer has sent them money related to a thing. This is a small proof-of-concept. It relies on PGP - but you could use Keybase, GPG, or any other hard-to-use encryption program.

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    Avatar of ds_centralData Science Central·4y

    The web 3 meme

    Late in the year, we are suddenly hearing a new term ‘web 3’ for the reasons I describe below. I take a broader perspective – hence the idea of a ‘ web 3.0 meme’ The word ‘meme’ was first proposed by Richard Dawkins in the book The selfish Gene.

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    Avatar of dzDZone·4y

    Build A Crypto Price Tracker using Node.js and Cassandra

    Apache Cassandra is a wide-column, No.SQL database that is ideal for append-only, write-intensive workloads. You can feed data from Cassandra to a wide variety of applications such as a cryptocurrency trading platform, price monitoring and alerting. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use a small Node.js application to get cryptocurrency data from an API and ingest that into Cassandra for downstream consumption.

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    Avatar of hnHacker News·4y

    The Web3 Fraud

    Web3 is only about adding an additional layer of complexity in the name of justifying the underlying cryptocurrencies. The web browser is augmented with a cryptocurrency wallet and part of the computation and storage is shifted from my server to the decentralized cryptocurrency infrastructure. When a user wants to use my service they will pay some amount of cryptocurrency to perform the cryptocurrency-side computation.

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