I would sugest supporting other blockchains besides ETH since transaction fees are insane. I have just checked how much should I pay to just fund my new account. It’s about 60-70 USD fee + actual payment + there is some efficiency which I did not have time to figure out. This is huge. Maybe you can support Binance Smart Chain or some other networks where fee is like x1000 smaller then ETH and transactions come through faster.
Ironically, Binance Smart Chain was part of what caused us to fail to launch my "end game solution" for that a while back and put me back into a design cycle (the exit for which or progress on I will not comment on here): we noticed their endpoints don't support eth_getLogs in a useful way.
(To be fair to them, neither does Polygon/Matic anymore, and there it was seemingly a more fundamental limitation... and, honestly, if it were only Binance Smart Chain that were limited, I would not have really cared as that chain is extremely centralized in a way I would find scary for our users.)
That seems to be an issue. However $60 fee still is insane and kills product. I have seen pankacakeswap defi used IPFS for decentralized voting. They use private wallet keys to sign vote and write it to IPFS. Maybe you could use IPFS as decentralized storage for that first block or other older blocks like a cache?
Nord Stream 2 would make gas system in Ukraine vurnable and allows further military escalation from Russia side, as it would be possible to transport gas via Nord Stream 2. This would make peace in EU under question also since aggression won't be in Ukraine only in case it escalates.
Also Nord Stream 2 would make Germany more dependent on Russia gas.
At the same time US wants to have EU and Germany on their side in fight agains China + sell resources to EU. Germany on the other side does not like "being controlled" and has some attraction to Russia. There are thoughts that Germany may want to make an allience with Russia to weaken US influence on EU.
I belive it is just a surface of what is happenning. And it is all related to "peace/war" questions, who are allies to whom, global market shares, etc.
It is not just some "stupid decision", there are lots of issues hidden under the hood. And more such decisions to come in the nearest future I belive.
> Germany on the other side does not like "being controlled" and has some attraction to Russia.
Being German myself, I don't think it has so much to do with being controlled or not, but the difference between several powers having some degree of influence vs. one having it all. Russia and the USA are certainly two very big players in world politics, and Germany already seems to have plenty of co-dependence with the United States.
I don't mean to say Nord Stream 2 is necessarily a good thing, but I do believe that some of the powers involved don't seek this balance as much as just to isolate Russia.
Sure. I agree. I used "controlled" word as some kind of abstraction. It is more about influence.
From ukrainian point of view Germany seems to forget about risks of not isolating Russia after Russia annexed territories and invaded several countries. WW2 did begin some kind of similarly as I understand: countries were seeking for "balance" and didn not want to make any rough decisions which could influence their economics in a "bad" way. The result was not very good.
I understand that every country has interests. But in this very case we see that Germany is already buying russian gas through ukrainian gas system without any issues besides risks intriduced by Russia itself. So Nord Stream 2 is more about relationships and not the gas or economics alone.
At the moment we see Article 11 and 13 approved as a consequence. And it is just the beginning.
And in this case it means Russia gains much more influence over eastern Europe. As a Lithuanian, I'd rather isolate Russia much more and have more dependency on US.
2. They collect all IPs and domains and ban them on provider level. There is a law which forces internet providers to sync the list of banned resources and prohibit access to them.
Basically they ban hundreds of thousands resources already.
Adding few thousands of nodes may take some time, but:
1. It is possible to do for sure within months
2. When you ban 20-30% of decentralized system it looses 20-30% of users which makes it not that attractive compared to allowed alternatives which are controlled by the government (like vk.com)
As I read France set very troublesome restrictions for any software which uses cryptography. As I remember it requires some kind of approval from government, assignment of special code based on documents you provide via mail. And it takes up to 4 month.
It's not about being available on the internet, it's about being available on the AppStore or Google Play Market which make you comply with French laws.
However supplying, importing and exporting cryptology means in and from France are regulated activities. These operations are either subject to a declaration or an authorisation process.
ANSSI records declarations and investigates requests for the authorization of cryptology equipment and services in accordance with French and European Community legislation."
So you have to send them ANSSI declaration and get an approval to submit an app to the store.
If you are distributing something through the website which is available everywhere then you can ignore that since there is no entity which would control that you follow French law, but it just a technical details. The law is the same for everyone I believe.
Regarding Telegram, Signal, WhatsApp, etc.: I believe they have sent all the documents and got the permission/registration in all regions they are available in and which require that.
Keybase desktop apps are not distributed through AppStore or Google Play Market, so there is no one to make them follow French law at that point. While stores should comply and make developers follow all the procedures.
However supplying, importing and exporting cryptology means in and from France are regulated activities. These operations are either subject to a declaration or an authorisation process.
ANSSI records declarations and investigates requests for the authorisation of cryptology equipment and services in accordance with French and European Community legislation.
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It's your personal ravings about "US owns Ukraine". Ukraine is sovereign nation despite russia which constantly tries to destabilize, detroy and "own" it.
I am disgusted to read this crazy russian delirium.
Ukraine is sovereign unitary nation. Only brainwashed with russian propaganda can say that some country or nation is no more then someones project and putting war on it means nothing.
It's about people and there will to be protected against crazy militant russians with stalin and putin in their minds.
Afaik, that was a decision of the people who live in Crimea on the referendum. It is like Brexit or referendum in Scotland. For example, now UK leaves EC, so in the same way Crimea has left Ukrain. It is how democracy works.
2. Constitution of Ukraine states that only citizens of whole country and not locals can decide such questions, _ANY_ local referendum regarding sovereignty is illegal.
So NO IT IS NOT LIKE BREXIT or referendum in Scotland. Ukraine is unitary country.
Russia is putting war on world? We have biggest war in Europe in the last 25 years at the moment.
"Hybrid" army from Russia side which is so called "rebels" is stronger then army of any country in Europe and is actually killing people, bombing them and threatens everyone who can't protect himself. They have tanks, drones, buks, grads and more.
It's natural to mobilize people and try to protect sovereignty of your country isn't it?
Unfortunately all I can see from west side of globe is "green-peace" and hippie-like talking about peace and "talking" with russia. At the same time russian soldiers are killing hundreds people each day saying "they humiliated russian speaking people".
Wake up. Otherwise you'll experience war one way or another at home. And it is not propaganda. It is reality.
