Game "probability" In games, like games of coinfaucet.net or if you play CryptoHeroes, there are a recent discussion about people not getting the correct probability of item they're supposed to get. Let's talk about CryptoHeroes example here, but this may apply to other examples too. https://coinfaucet.net/ https://ecosystem.pixeldapps.co/cryptoheroes This is what you see in the description box when you want to go for dungeon. The game have 90% chance of dropping common…
@wabinab in March 2022
How decentralized would you want your app be? Blockchain aims for decentralization, and it's not a new topic per se. But have you considered how decentralized the dApps and blockchain are? **Blockchain** Bitcoin, uses proof-of-work, allows anybody to pick up as a node validator to validate transactions. Anybody literally means anybody: as people start joining to earn passive income from validating transactions, they can have more than 10,000 nodes (See the exact number…
Writing well to engage your audience One graduates from Bachelor of Physics, and taking Physics in the first place, not only to pursue an interesting topic, but to escape the "life-and-death situation" of... writing essays. Writing has never been one's strength. In high school, A Level General Paper (GP) is a requirement, and one barely passed (50-60% to be more exact). O Level English though, one hits 80+%, and my GP teacher used to tell me, "I didn't know how you got…
The Importance of NEAR Guilds and NEAR Ecosystem Ultimately, crypto seeks for adoption. Without its ecosystem, NEAR tokens would be just a collection; you could collect NEAR tokens but they are not useful. The money we have nowadays are useful due to their many use cases; you can buy groceries with it, you can go online shopping with it, you can pay for learning courses with it, you can pay your child's school fee with it. People using today's money appreciate their presence…
Learnings on using React I'm a backend developer. Frontend is quite new to me, though actually learning it, it doesn't seems all bad. Though some parts of designing is quite annoying, especially with the flexibility of HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc that specify "configuration over convention" (lots of choice for you to choose and it's up to you) when one works better with "convention over configuration" (predefined set of values where you can type-write quickly without worrying…
Sign Up Smart Contract: Partial Solution and its Security Concerns One was trying to create an app (as a side project), and one of its feature is creating a wallet for free (one call it "sign up"). If you'd created an account on read.cash, you know that it creates the wallet for you, asks you to save its key, and violà the wallet is yours! One is trying to imitate the same functionality in NEAR Protocol: creating a NEAR wallet for the user. The thing is, a wallet in BCH, as…
Sign up Smart Contract continuation 2: CreateAccountNotAllowed This article continues from https://read.cash/@wabinab/sign-up-smart-contract-partial-solution-and-its-security-concerns-364b3361 Previously one wrote about the idea for signup creation, and here is an update. The original linkdrop contract is deployed on "testnet", which is a top-level contract. And linkdrop contract requires an account creation either be another top-level contract, or a sub-contract of a…
NEAR and Governance: Introduction and my opinions In the early days, NEAR have little adopters. To boost mass adoption, NEAR Governance acts as a hub for proposals, branching its reach to more users. We shall compare the similarity and differences of NEAR Governance with a traditional (country) government, and we include some personal opinions on the way. https://gov.near.org/ First note: One is not a fan of politics and governance, and consider it a total waste of one's…
Some thoughts on Token Values (Open for Suggestions) Something strikes me watching Token Economics series: one part of a video mentioned about "giving tokens to people for their contributions, like a park token to park keepers/cleaners, friendship token to your friends, etc". But how do we define the values related to monetary value? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDntQtVULa0&list=PLsJWgOB5mIMCMxQVvWAP4xi19EOkHcBNN (Perhaps) Non-monetary Value Token Some tokens are…
4-days Work Week and its alternatives Recently one saw this article on my mail box: Ignore Your Boss After Work: Belgium Now on a 4-Day Work Week. One would like to write some opinions on this. Note that one is quite influenced by writings from Basecamp author Jason Friend and David Heinemeier Hansson, as well as some other writings earlier in my life by other writers that one can't remember now.…
Immutability: Be careful saving on-chain One was working on a project, and someone gave me feedback; and one realizes something that one taken for granted on the blockchain: immutability. One thought of creating something immutable, but one still have some control over non-intrusive decisions. For example, a blog. The blog is published on IPFS, but one can choose to unlink it from the site if it contains offensive information. Thing is, the feedback strikes my thought: ***if…