The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @lopp ever

June 6th, 2015

8) If you aren’t passionate enough to share your work with the world, are you passionate enough to be doing it in the first place?

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7) Knowledge sharing is critical to advancement. “If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants.” - Isaac Newton

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6) Even if the vast majority of the world doesn’t care about your work right now, this may not be the case in the future.

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5) If you are on the forefront of your field then it’s quite likely that very few people share your knowledge or passion.

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4) But technical writing is not for popularity, it’s about making your deposit to humanity’s global knowledge database.

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3) Sure, if you write a blog post about tech that not many people use or work on, you’re not going to get many reads or much karma.

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2) There is a huge volume of insights not being shared with the world because many engineers feel no one shares their passion.

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1) I want to see more engineers writing long form posts about their passions and the lessons learned in their field.

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@ImmranAhmed @muneeb If you’re using a traditional data store, sure. But not if you’re using block chains. :-)

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“If there is ever going to be a single sign-on / global ID system then no single company can own that namespace.” - @muneeb

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@ofnumbers The struggle is real; if rest of ecosystem (nodes, businesses, users) chooses fork w/less hashpower, holdout miners may relent.

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“Experiences with Scaling Blockchain-based Data Stores” by @muneeb http://t.co/3xeICCYr8w

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aantonop Bitlicense section 200.15 (j) effectively prohibits licensees from operating relaying bitcoin nodes. How will they connect to bitcoin net?

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6) Thus I don’t believe that Core developers should take miner profitability in specific conditions into account when changing the protocol.

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5) We have already observed several generations of mining hardware and techniques be developed and fall into obsolescence.

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4) The open-endedness of how miners uphold their end of the contract is what spurs competition and innovation.

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3) There is no contract between the protocol and miners stating that miners should be profitable under specific conditions.

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2) However, the contract between the protocol and the miners is clear - show PoW and propagate your blocks and you’ll earn revenue.

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1) Miners have the right to reject changes to the Bitcoin protocol if those changes are against the economic interest of the miner.

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@flyosity The hour passes fairly quickly and productively on Caltrain.

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