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It seems that it is :(.

My withdrawal definitely was through a contract, and in cryptopia the balance didn't move. And by reading their forums it seems I'm not the only one.

But most of all, I really don't get why this would be a technical limitation ...

I made a silly mistake. I transferred some ETH from an exchange directly to cryptopia, only later seeing that "Deposits from contracts currently unsupported ".

Has anybody else had this problem? Is this a tmp. thing on cryptopia or is my ETH lost for good?

I wouldn't say beyond repair, but it's true that a huge opportunity was missed.

Zerocoin was the biggest feature in the pipeline and it couldn't be promoted properly due to this mess.

What I would do:

• I would just patiently fix all the problems and make sure that it works perfectly

• I would make a deal with another major exchange (I have no idea if the PIVX treasury can afford that)

• Once I have the first two items in place, I would increase the wallet version and do a relaunch

One of the most important idea behind Kotlin in general is that ecosystem is what's required in modern development

Indeed, and Jetbrains is doing an amazing job so far bootstrapping this process.

But my questions would be: for how log can they keep this up? I'm pretty sure that currently Kotlin is not pulling its own weight (financially).

And with the new direction Java is taking, they would have to accelerate the development on all fronts.

No, it's not, because it's the same bully called Bitcoin whales. I could bet that 95% of the large BTC holders kept their BTH too.

It's an illusion to think that whatever is currently going on is based on technical arguments (big blocks, 2nd layer, etc.). That is for the birds.

As someone mentioned yesterday, we keep chasing these silly forks enriching the same guys in the process.

There is a very important aspect that is rarely mentioned, if at all: the Bitcoin whales (large holders) are the same ones as the Bitcoin Cash whales.

So from their point of view, as long as they can keep the community's focus on one of them (instead of a true alternative), they don't really care.

No, of course not. That's why I said existing and new features.

What I meant is that if you add up all the new APIs that were revamped over the years, you will almost get a new SDK compared to the original ( < 1.5).

I guess what's holding back Java now it's us devs that don't adapt quickly enough :)

I'm really impressed with the way Java is aging. In about a year (version 11), Java (openjdk) will most likely have (existing and new features):

• modules, lambdas, traits (interfaces++), data classes, pattern matching

• revamped APIs for: date/times, concurrency, networking, etc.

• a REPL and probably AOT compilation

And hopefully some new libraries designed with all these features in mind.

In the end, even though the syntax is not perfect, it will give a run for their money to all the jvm languages.

In my POV, there are 4 types of crypto assets: currencies (BTC), platforms (ETH), services (OMG, most ETH20 tokens) and lastly, services for other services (LINK).

Now, everything is speculation, so the prices don't really match reality. But for LINK to become really useful, it will need:

1. for ETH to be a success

2. for a lot of ETH20 tokens that depend on LINK to be a success

3. To convince the API gateways to be on LINK only.

1 is on its way, 2 is not in sight and 3 is a gamble.

So what's the alternative?

Well, the alternative is just that: we go back to fix the fundamentals, even if it delays us for a couple of years.

• we design a better development language

• we create better development tools

• And because this will still happen from time to time, we put a proper governance process in place. The one smart contract to rule them all where the community can vote in a transparent way.

• And lastly, we demand responsibility from both the ICO creators and ICO investors. If code is law, they should review any smart contract they use as they would review a normal contract. It's not only Parity's responsibility here. And if they are not sure, they just shouldn't do it.

This is a serious threat. Bitcoin may be anti-fragile in some ways, but it is not anti-fragile to 51% attacks. Its very vulnerable.

I'm sorry, but if this all it takes to bring Bitcoin down, than Bitcoin in its current form sucks. And maybe we should stop and build better foundation before it's to late.

And for that we don't need one silly hard fork that doubles the block size, but several far reaching ones.

Yes, we get it:

• Oracles are nice.

• Decentralized oracles are nicer.

• Chainlink ???

But, I've carefully read the whitepaper and a lot of the details that could help me decide if Chainlink will work out in practice are missing.

And it's funny how both "Decentralized oracles" and "Swift collaboration" are used to promote it. Well, if it is decentralized, you shouldn't care that Swift is providing the data, isn't it?

They did just that, didn't they?

Initially they planned to use Bitcoin but I think the fees made their use cases untenable.

I do understand and agree that the Brave browser is the weakest link, but I also think that someone (maybe even the Brave team) could incorporate the system in the other browsers by partnering with some of the major Ad blockers in the market.

Is anyone aware if they are working on such a solution?

Sounds like a made-up reason.

It does sound like that, but I'm not sure it is. I mean, it most likely isn't their main reason, but it could be one of them.

As far as I know the community and the developers have been trying to find a "culprit" for the lack of adoption for a while now:

• maybe it's the syntax

• maybe the missing Android support

• and why not, maybe it's the enterprise feel Redhat brings to the table

But don't get me wrong, I completely agree with you on everything you said.

Decred

Never looked into Decred before, but the governance system looks very similar to Pivx.

Do you know what sets them apart?

The killer app is literally ICO's and crowd funding.

The main downside with ICOs is that they force the application developer to come with a basic economic model for their tokens (otherwise, the tokens would have no value).

But the reality is that most applications don't have a natural economic model. So if you force the ICO model on most of them, you get something even uglier than what the add revenue model did to most websites.

What ICOs bring to the table is just convenience of investing. But otherwise, other crowd funding models would work much better in most cases.

Having a fixed cap.

And I would add a second: you can't really make these kind of drastic changes without governance. So I guess, governance comes first.

They are not hypocrites, just irrational. They just don't realize that the price dropping will also change their state of mind.

I've never seen a compelling proof/article describing a working economy using a deflationary currency (with a capped supply). There are some attempts, but I'm still waiting for something more convincing. Most coins are in this boat.

By the way, I'm not advocating arbitrary or centrally planned inflation, but we might need some form of inflation.

And I also have my doubts that a POW currency can really function as a currency long term.

My point being that we don't really have the full picture and we should be prepared to make big/radical changes.

BTC, ETH and PIVX.

If BTC fails, I would expect / hope something with governance built in to take its place, ergo PIVX (though it is not the only one playing in that space).

Do all of you really think that Bitcoin got everything right?

I mean, we are in a really big mess currently and it's only about a technical issue, issue we are supposed to be good at.

And you think we got everything right when it comes to economy and politics?

Now, regarding the current subject, personally, and with my current understanding, I do think that a crypto-currency needs inflation. That doesn't mean arbitrary inflation or centrally planned inflation.

Or Pivx. Well, you wouldn't use them (as in right now), because they are not there yet, but they are a dash fork that is adding the zerocoin protocol.

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