knowledge is power
a vending machine is a pretty decent analogy for a smart contract. it's a machine that handles money and renders a service.
lending in a trustless ecosystem is difficult because what if they don't pay back? you'd have to charge outrageous interest rates to cover the risk.
the last time i looked into Solidity and smart contracts, i didn't exactly find something user friendly. lots of pretty websites but not much substance. there's a bit of hype there, but i think smart contracts could be useful for many things.
i've been thinking about making a contract that renders this service but somehow makes me a bit of profit. but unless i charge fees for deposits (no one likes this), i'd have to lend the deposits to people wanting loans to earn interest, and by that point, i'm a bank...
stable as in stablecoin?
i wanted to make a smart contract that would lock up money for me until it was time to spend it, since money tends to burn up if i have unhindered access to it.
yeah, Solidity is the one i tried out, but it's been a while since i looked into it, so i forgot what it was called 😂
anybody here do any Ethereum smart contract coding? they're interesting. you can have bots running on the blockchain and they can perform jobs.
Litecoin is almost as old as Bitcoin and it sticks around. but it's much cheaper for transfers than Bitcoin or Ethereum are, so it's handy.
i still routinely use Litecoin when i want to transfer crypto with low fees.
can someone explain to me how to make "since" queries work properly in the Nostr protocol? servers don't seem to care if you put it in, at least not by itself.
there's strlen, strcpy, strcmp, and then there's nostr
as a programmer, my first reaction to the name nostr was "no string? never heard of that C library function before!"
i don't see how this is encouraging tho
you would think that writing more code would make a better piece of software but actually, it's the opposite: the less work your software performs, the better it is. when computers have to do a lot of work, they heat up and fans spin up and heatsinks clog, etc.
the phone isn't what warms up for me, but some clients warm up laptops
if you're past the peak, it's not wrong to say that is when you're old