core VS Rabby

> You sound like someone who knows your stuff on this and I regret if I was in any way making it sound personal or disrespectful to you personally. I maintain it’s an unfortunate if not offensive phrasing, but I’m in no position to carry rocks around glass houses: I say unfortunately or offensively-phrased things too.

I didn't take offense at all. I find your knowledge of the space refreshing. I have watched blockchains carefully from the sidelines for some time because of my interest in the intersection of economics, state, and technology and how blockchains might change those things. Over time I became more jaded because the scaling problems blockchains run into seem to be almost insurmountable, so my interest has pivoted into less-global, more-scalable approaches (like merkle-DAG CRDTs with some external form of validation).

> There isn’t really a robust consensus that I’m aware of as to what constitutes a blockchain per se: Wikipedia lists git as one, and I suppose that’s as good a source as any absent such consensus.

Fair enough.

> In more pragmatic/colloquial usage I might define a blockchain loosely as a “tamper-resistant, directed, and typically acyclic / bounded-cyclic data structure with an implied machine economics optimization around infrequent but critically important fully-verifiable history subject to heuristically-determined / freely parameterized bounds on branching factor, duration in branched states, and a bounded susceptibility to adversarial interference in a verifiable consensus on the periodic elimination of branching on some semi-predicable cadence”, which is pretty hand-wavy but I think captures the spirit of the general usage.

Have you considered a career in poetry?? Joking aside, this pretty much sums up my view as well. A DAG with a strong gravitational pull towards a master branch with somewhat infrequently changing data. Which also includes git, so you're right.

> Throw in a bunch of electricity consumption that’s maybe net driving up carbon emissions and maybe net attaching a financial incentive to electricity so cheap that it basically has to be renewable but it’s kinda too soon to tell, and I think I’m now having trouble seeing how crypto three years ago and “AI” last year are any different along these dimensions.

Yes, agreed. Let's spin up an immense amount of computing power to train a model that hallucinates when asked basic questions. Again, there is a space where the marriage of a large dataset of knowledge and an automated linguistic system searching that knowledge has great use-cases, but throwing "AI" at every problem is just another eye-rolley fad.

> The difference in my view is that AI is probably higher variance by a lot on social welfare, and not because of some dumbass “paperclip-indifferent AGI” tripe.

What do you mean by this?

> Blockchain as applied to finance has the scope to create transparency into financial markets and compel governments to open the books on what is and isn’t legal regarding money, for who, and why.

This is one of the things I was originally most excited about. Make politicians receive all wages, contributions, etc through some auditable public currency. If you're going to work in the public sector, then you have to consent to transparency. I have my own issues with money (mainly its deficiency for economic transactions) but cryptocurrencies are certainly a step up from it. But like you said, you can't just release some new currency and expect the government to bless it. Some empires had their armies, some their navies, but we have our banks. Our empire is a financial one, and a currency that replaces the USD is a direct attack against the heart of the empire. Many mountains would have to move before that is possible, unless Wall St finds some extra utility in it that allows them to extract more.

> the public to understand a little better how important digital identity, security, privacy, and autonomy are in 2024

100%...cryptographic identity is going to be huge in the next few years (I'm betting on it quite heavily https://stamp-protocol.github.io/).

> AI has more obviously useful applications at the consumer level (though it’s largely a solution to itself as a way to get information one could previously get from a search engine before it ruined the indexes of search engines by making arbitrarily persuasive falsehoods too cheap to meter, we’ve had spam for a long time, but spam so good it’s convincing to experts in anything other than a bad mood? That’s new.).

Yes, exactly, AI is a glorified search engine. Search engines have consumed themselves trying to tailor results to their users instead of just fucking showing objective information and are becoming essentially obsolete pay-to-play ad machines.

> The danger with AI is that it winds up being something other than “available weight” and “operator-aligned”, i.e. whoever is the last man standing has arbitrary unaccountable power to convince anyone of anything and prevent that from being accessed by anyone else.

Well, there's more here. As AI markets itself as this sort of objective intelligence machine, it garners more and more trust. As this solidifies it has the potential to shape perception over time to the benefit of the operators/controllers. The obvious conclusion is snuck in advertising, but I'm thinking much more sinister like the editorialization of information to protect the owner classes and the state from any kind of scrutiny. Effectively, a Big Brother that instead of using fear for compliance, softly whispers in your ear. Pair this with the immense surveillance apparatus we've spent decades perfecting (but it's in the private sector! so it's ok!!1) and we're setting ourselves up for a hellscape dystopia.

Definitely higher stakes, I'd say.

Secure notetaking, Identity and cryptography (README is way out of date, sorry), and seizing the means of production (kind of on hold until Stamp is out of PoC).

Has anyone tinkered with Stamp Protocol? This looks like the beginnings of a decentralized version of Keybase https://github.com/stamp-protocol/core

L2s do not fundamentally add any significant UX complexity.

There are some wallets that make this a pain (Metamask) but newer wallets like Rabby (https://rabby.io) and Rainbow are huge improvements.

As an alternative, you can also use Rabby wallet, made by DeBank: https://rabby.io/

You need to download rabby.io. There is a medium article on this sub somewhere. Not tried it myself yet but it seems simple enough.

i see, but i have already plu in metamask, is still working use rabby.io ?

If on CV - https://rabby.io (debank crypto wallet) has a revoker feature. Import your MM wallet into it and then go to settings and approvals to revoke.

This guide will explain how to use an alternative app to Metamask (Rabby) to withdraw your PLU straight to an exchange. It was written in June 2023 whilst the PlutusSwaps DEX was temporarily closed and may become outdated as Plutus develop their product further. This guide may also be outdated once Plutus is deployed on an L2 (Polygon). The benefits of this guide is to save the extra step of having to buy ETH and pay additional gas fees to move your PLU from Plutus -> Ethereum wallet -> exchange. This saves money, time and extra hassle for those who do not use the Ethereum blockchain. In short, this guide will save you the middle step. For the record, I personally would advise that we all do as much as possible ON chain as exchanges are like banks. We all saw what happened to FTX. Do not leave your funds sitting on exchanges. This is more for people who want to sell their rewards as simply as possible. Shout out to u/madkex for raising this strategy and to u/andyodd on Discord (https://www.discord.gg/plutus) for getting on it and trying it out! Step 1 — Go to https://rabby.io/ and download either the extension or the desktop application. For this guide, I use the desktop app as I feel these are safer than browser extensions but they are exactly the same. Rabby — The game-changing wallet for Ethereum and all EVM chains Already looks better than Metamask… >_> Step 2 — Once installed and downloaded, we are going to use this application differently to Metamask. You CAN use it like a normal hot wallet, import your private keys or connect your hardware wallet, but for this, we are going to use it only for exchange deposit addresses and only for the purpose of withdrawing PLU. This is an alternative to Metamask. Whereas Metamask is only a browser extension, alternatives can be downloaded to your desktop for an extra layer of safety such as 0xFrame or Rabby. Step 3 — Click Add Contacts. This is a method to add any wallet address as a ‘watch account’. This means that Web 3 can connect and look at any wallet (all public information) but we will not be able to sign any transactions as these wallets do not belong to us. ‘Contacts’ is a slightly confusing name — think of it more like a watch address or a view-only wallet. Step 4 — Go to the exchange you use (Coinbase, Kucoin or Bitfinex are the most popular) and click Deposit or Send/Receive. Click the cryptocurrency PLU (Plutus) and make sure it says ‘Ethereum Blockchain’. PLU is an ERC-20 token and currently only available on the Ethereum network. Copy the wallet address you are given and paste it into Rabby. (Example: 0xd8dA6BF26964aF9D7eEd9e03E53415D37aA96045 ) This example is screenshot from Coinbase — all exchanges will look slightly different when looking for your deposit address. Just make sure it is Ethereum /ERC-20. Step 5 — Once you have added the wallet as a ‘contact’ (watch only), you should see it listed with a cup symbol. I have renamed these after adding them but remember, deposit addresses DO change! These are not permanent! Review them regularly. Step 6 — Now click the add button in the bottom left and add a dapp by domain. You can do this for any Web 3 domain. For Plutus, this is dex.plutus.it Note: If you are using the browser extension, I doubt this step is needed. You will likely just connect to Plutus in exactly the same way you use metamask. Rabby has a built-in browser which is how it connects to Web3 websites/dapps. Step 7 — Rabby will now recognise the dapp. Select connect and it will add it on the left side. Now log into Plutus as usual. Think of it just like a browser within the app, no different to Firefox, Brave or Chrome but built within the Rabby wallet app. Again, this is likely not needed with the browser extension. Note the Metamask pop up in the background. This will show as connected once you connect to the dapp. Step 8 — Just like you would in any browser, go to Pluton at the top of the Plutus website, and click the blue Withdraw button. You should now see the exchange deposit address. CHECK THIS. Check it is the same one as in your exchange. Check it again. Once you press the withdraw button, your PLU rewards will go to this wallet so you need to make SURE this is the correct one. Exchanges also sometimes change their deposit addresses. You should double check this on the exchange every time you withdraw. Don’t forget you’ll need £3/€3 in your account to complete the withdrawal. Step 9 — Plutus will contact you if needed and you should receive the funds from the Plutus withdrawal wallet. This is currently taking 1–3 days at the time of writing this. Check ‘Account — PLU Withdrawal Delays/Issues’ in the Support Forum within the Plutus Discord for any updates. Step 10 — Congratulations! The PLU is now in your exchange! Sell it using the trading pair (or by swapping it on Coinbase) — these are often PLU/USDT or PLU/USD. There are some tips and different strategies people use in the ‘Buying & Selling PLU outside of the Plutus DEX’ Support Forum within the Plutus Discord. Your final step will now be to swap that USDT to Euros or Pounds and withdraw that to your bank account. Enjoy! Additional BONUS note: If this guide was your introduction to the world of using blockchains, or even if you are a Metamask user trying something new, please consider using a browser extension such as https://www.joinfire.xyz/ or https://www.walletguard.app/ to monitor your blockchain transactions and show you what you are signing and approving. Stay safe out there! TigerLionFox Written by TigerLionFox 2 Followers More from TigerLionFox TigerLionFox

Without knowing what platform you are on it is hard to give recommendations, but personally I would prefer open source projects. I can really recommend Rabby wallet for browser extension/desktop wallet (mobile is coming soon apparently), entirely open source and made by the people behind debank.com. Really smooth experience coming from metamask.