Thursday, November 29, 2018

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A Word About Monero + Tari

tldr; Building a non-fungible asset on top of a funglible currency solves lots of the problems other cryptocurrencies have tried to solve. The solution to these problems stands to benefit a diverse and worthy bunch.

As someone that has been into cryptocurrency almost as long as it has existed; Monero is revolutionary, and Tari should be revolutionary. Tari adds an important layer to the currency that is what other cryptos only claim to be.

As someone that has promoted, participated in, and purchased tickets for events; the team and purpose behind the Tari project serve the needs of lots of people.

Tari has a core team member that is very experienced in the sales of event tickets. Tari also has an experienced cryptocurrency developer/leader. There is a tremendous amount of potential in the proper application of the concept.

The fact that there was no ICO tells us that there are people with loads of money that believe enough in the project to take on the risk. That alone inspires confidence.

The fact that the project is building a non-fungible asset on top of a fungible currency is very intriguing. I see lots of upside for artists, secondary market participants, and event goers. It's hard to make a living as an artist, middleman, or get what you paid for as a patron.

Tari solves alot of problems.

While monero is everything bitcoin said it was at its inception, Tari should be the most important part of what ether was supposed to be. Monero is what bitcoin said it was. Tari should be what "colored coins" or bitcoin based assets were to bitcoin.

Unlike the colored coins derived from burned bitcoin; Tari should be usable.

Contracts are subjective based upon the parties and interpreter/oracle/mediator/code of the contract. Tickets and other hard assets are tangible goods and services.

Think about it.

I like tying the artists to the event with non-fungible compensation so they are accountable for funds received and services provided. Just as accountable as the promoters and financiers of any event. So much upside.

As a promoter I can guarantee my artists a certain amount for a sellout or any percentage of a sellout along with the possibility of residual income from secondary market sales. I can verify proof of funds so the performer doesn't have to worry about getting paid. I can refund any failures to deliver if it's done right.

As a ticket buyer I don't have to worry about supply, forgery, paying too much, or reselling my ticket if I'm unable to attend the event. I can choose to take loss or gain with full understanding that part of that sale will return to the artists or issuer of the ticket.

Tari, done right, is a sellable product wrapped inside a cryptocurrency that should be invisible to end users. Think a Venmo type wallet that is funded from a monero wallet to make tari token purchase.

Fungible > Non-Fungible Asset > Reality > Revolutionary.

The Wholesale > Middleman > Retail chain has many applications within the Tari + Monero concept. Think supply chain and inventory control. Real world applications beyond ticketing or traveling back in time to attend a Prince concert.

How anyone doesn't see Monero and Tari as the future is beyond me. Probably the least hyped projects in the crypto community. Not doing an ICO to fleece the public is probably the reason Tari is not talked about more.

I'm taking a flyer on this one, but Tari is an application of Monero that nobody has considered until now. No ICO! Who do these guys think they are? Lot's of upside.


Wednesday, November 28, 2018

[Daily Discussion] Thursday, November 29, 2018

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The Definitive Guide to Bitcoin in 2019



Stream Deck feedback

Hi, I got my new Stream Deck today and I'm collecting a user feedback for you guys, but I'm not sure the best place to send it. Should I just post it here?

Here are my initial notes:

Stream Deck feedback

  1. If I put a LNK file (Windows Shortcut) on a button, why not automatically copy the icon from that link?

a) Now I have to go to the link manually, open preferences, find the executable, copy the location, go back to Stream Desk, open the executable.

b) Turns out this works fine if I drag-n-drop the shortcut, but doesn’t work if I give it the path to a shortcut.

i) Strangely, this did not work for all of the Adobe CC shortcuts. Turns out it only works for shortcuts that point directly to an executable. If they point to a shell registry reference (such as Minesweeper’s shortcut) then Stream Deck doesn’t know what to do with it.

ii) In fact, none of the Office 365 shortcuts worked, even though they pointed to executables. They showed a “can’t drop” cursor.

c) Annoyingly Steam shortcuts can’t be dropped, or rather they can be dropped but they don’t work. Considering your history as a game-related company, I kinda expected this to work well.

2) When I drag-n-drop a shortcut onto a button, it doesn’t associate the button with the shortcut. Instead it copies the executable from the shortcut to the button, but it loses any of the command line arguments and other meta-data that is associated with the link (like whether to launch that application as administrator). It would be much better for it to store the link file path and use ShellExecute to launch the shortcut. For example:

a) ShellExecute(hwnd, nullptr, "Minesweeper.lnk",nullptr, nullptr, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

b) Note that this would also solve the problem mentioned above in 1.b.i.

c) This would also allow the deck to point to shortcuts that are URLs, files, etc.

3) If I select an executable for the icon for a button, it doesn’t show me the icons in the executable to pick one.

a) For example, I made a button launch Photoshop, so I pointed to the Photoshop.exe (which has literally dozens of icons in it) and it forces me to use the first one in the file’s resource fork. It should show me a dialog of the icons and allow me to pick one.

4) Giving Stream Deck a file name as a URL (an image URL such as https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c5/73/49/c57349d1de8e1834c3d93a2e8f9ef615.png) causes it to lock up and fails to load the image.

a) Of course, if I download the image and then point Stream Deck at that image it works fine. But it would be easier to just give the URL as that’s where the images come from (especially for games).

5) Some of the actions in the list aren’t clear what they are for, but none of hovering, right-clicking, pressing F1, give me more information about what that action does.

a) I would actually do a combination of both help on hover (show a tooltip) and pressing F1 and clicking links you to a page that gives detailed information about what the action does.

6) There is no undo. This is especially heinous if I accidentally drop a shortcut on top of a folder as it removed the whole folder and replaced it with the shortcut I dropped. I could find no way to recover the folder. At the very least it should ask me before destroying the folder.

7) It would be really nice if the Stream Deck went blank when the computer screen is locked (or soon thereafter). The buttons stop working when it’s locked, which is great, but it never goes dark.

a) I discovered later (from a Reddit post) that I could set a sleep time, I haven't fully tested it though... I did notice that my bitcoin program kept updating the deck all night while the computer was locked. I assume Stream Deck simply ignores events when the computer is asleep?