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Where does NFT find its place? On the previous (May 2022) NEAR Town Hall, people talk about NFT. Let's look at where sectors NFT are applied, and one'll add some personal opinions where relevant. The first use cases of NFT, after it's discovered, is as profile pictures. Since NFT are "non-fungible" by nature, profile pictures create your unique identity on the web domains. Despite the artwork being relatively ugly, it's more of a proof-of-work that NFT are indeed "NF". As…

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What Makes a Story Boring? (This is a shorter + simplified version from written on mirror.xyz.) https://mirror.xyz/0xa32e05D545FEc9cADb46BEB0839E3Ac0A9E39d9B/tY8YRl4plQlG4EJS4sCjcBGZqhpuBA88Xbt1lpvAlOg Have you ever read a story that lose your interest quickly? Did you know why it distract your attention? One isn't sure about the "why" for you; here we speak of the "why" for one. **Too much details**. An author writes too deep into the details. A story is interesting because…

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51% Attacks on DAO We have heard about the 51% attacks on validator nodes. It's when more than or equal to 50% of the validator nodes are controlled by hackers, whom could then control transactions, including reversing a transaction. But 51% attacks doesn't occur just for nodes! It could also happens on DAOs. Consider this situation: a member is a BCH lover (NEAR lover); and he/she brings in members of their family to join the community. So we have active members as families…

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How to Make More Friends In one sentence: **Learn to Speak, then Learn to Respect**. If everyone knows how to make friends by default, there would be no introvert and extrovert differences; there would not be self-help books telling you "secrets to make friends". There would not be online blogs telling you "the n steps to make friends/rekindle friendship/etc". Making friends and retaining friends is a difficult, **effortful** job, so let's see how one suggests it works. What…

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We Have (Far) More Talents Than Attention and Time Have your parents watch other people play a piano and expect the same from you because you have long fingers that's suitable to play the piano? Or maybe, in school, you successfully ace the test of a single subject or perhaps an Olympiad without studying much because it comes so natural. These are talents. But we have so many talents, if you noticed, that we don't have time to pursue them all. Let's talk more. First, if you…

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NEAR June Town Hall NEAR strives to create a world where people control their assets, data, and power of governance. We can achieve this by building the next generation platform for decentralized applications (dApps): something simple, scalable, sustainable, and secure. We want to onboard users that aren't in the ecosystem yet into the ecosystem: like using Aurora+, Sweatcoin, etc. NEAR Goal is onboard 1B users; and 18 months since mainnet launches, it's 1% complete. Though,…

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Respect Your Friends, Respect Your Partners (the article speaks from intimate friendship's point of view; though the reader can try apply it to other relationships) You know, many self-help books that are dedicated for couples can also be used for intimate relationships, after excluding the parts specific to a couple-relationship. After all, couples are just two really close friends that lives together and do things together, to help each other become their better self by…

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Blockchain Safety (This is a simplified version of the Mirror Post Blockchain Safety. For the full article, read it on Mirror. ) https://mirror.xyz/0xa32e05D545FEc9cADb46BEB0839E3Ac0A9E39d9B/IpY43h3SlgdEO4r99SiJw4UgbhEesPhcoFyeYc7hgmM While we know blockchain solves problem on centralization and privacy, do we know that blockchain itself brings problem? One don't mean being hacked by attackers, 51% attacks, or how decentralized or transparent the blockchain is. One also…