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**Paul Frazee:** \[43:55\] That's Max Ogden, he runs that, and Mathias Buus is the lead protocol engineer, and you'll know him on the web as "Mafintosh." I think it's the Knight Foundation, Sloan Foundation and maybe others that have funded them. |
**Alex Sexton:** The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation? I don't know if that's the same one \[unintelligible 00:44:20.08\] |
**Mikeal Rogers:** This week we're on NPR instead of The Changelog Network. \[laughter\] |
**Paul Frazee:** Yeah, actually I don't know if it's the same one... |
**Mikeal Rogers:** It is. |
**Paul Frazee:** Okay, cool. They're non-profit; they're specifically focused on helping out (I would say) governments and academics scientists and things like that, help them with data archiving. That's the mission for the Code for Science and the mission for the Dep protocol. So we showed up with the Beaker project a... |
The idea with this is that this is a peer-to-peer network and it does really great with your content if you're popular. But if you don't have anybody that's subscribing to what you've done, if you turn off your computer you're not gonna be able to seed the files for it. So you need to have somebody on the network that ... |
Hashbase is basically a peer up in the cloud that you can push the files to, and then you can comfortably turn your computer off and know that other people will still be able to find it. |
**Alex Sexton:** So it's kind of like a centralization of -- it's an unfortunate side effect, but I don't think it's a bad idea; it's a good idea. I think the decentralized thing is important not as a default thing, but not necessarily as a constant... Especially with content that goes out. |
**Paul Frazee:** I do actually agree with your point there that decentralization as the default is the good starting point. We actually have two answers for you on that, because I think there is a fair point \[unintelligible 00:46:50.02\] First of all, what we call Hashbase is a fungible service; fungible, like you can... |
It's similar to a federation, with the idea that one of the services that does it is just as good as one of the others, for the most part. Hashbase is open source, and we'll probably make variations that are totally compatible with it that are easier to self-deploy. And yeah, it is a service that is being run by somebo... |
\[47:57\] The other answer that I have about the centralization aspect is that for my money I think probably where this all leads to is people being able to run service at home, like a little box, a piece of hardware that you can plug in and just forget about, but it'll keep your content online in the same way that a p... |
**Alex Sexton:** And everyone puts it behind their 10-year-old Linksys router. |
**Paul Frazee:** Exactly. And then ideally, they just forget about it. Because you don't have to keep it up to date, or anything. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Awesome. This has been great. I think we've gotta start wrapping up the show now, so we're gonna get into picks. Everybody have personal picks that they brought... Why don't we start with you, Alex? |
**Alex Sexton:** This week I'm gonna go with another internationalization pick. I think I started this season off with an internationalization pick, but -- GlobalizeJS is a collection of tools for number formatting, messaging formatting, and currency and all that kind of stuff. More importantly though it does parsing, ... |
That's been a lifesaver for me in my real job this week, and lately. It's completely backed off of the CLDR, which is the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository, and that's where they keep the standard set of all the locale information. It's great. It's what Twitter uses to localize their website, if that's helpful... I... |
Interestingly enough, the message format implementation inside of it is mine, that I wrote, but at Stripe we don't use that one, we pulled in a different one before we added Globalize, so we don't use my library... But it doesn't count. Alright, that's my pick. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** \[laughs\] Alright. Paul, do you have a pick for us today? |
**Paul Frazee:** Does this have to be a module? Can it be a service? What are the rules for this? |
**Mikeal Rogers:** It can be anything. It can be a book, it can be a passion... It doesn't even have to be in tech. |
**Alex Sexton:** Oil powder...? \[laughter\] |
**Paul Frazee:** You know what, give me a second. Can you do yours first and I'll think of something for you? |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Sure, sure. Mine actually is in tech this time; I'm just gonna throw out non-tech things. It's called Semantic Release. I've just been kind of feeling the weight of maintaining a lot of modules that people use, and as I've been writing new codes and new modules, I've been thinking about ways that I c... |
Basically, if you use Commitizen and do these proper commit messages, denoting features or fixes and stuff like that, Semantic Release will just automate the releases entirely. The pushed to npm and everything will just happen automatically. This is really great when you combine it with a couple other tools. For these ... |
\[52:20\] So you can kind of verify all this stuff and give people a really easy path to contribute, and then as I'm pulling in patches, I can tell if it's completely tested, and as soon as it lands with these proper commit messages, the entire release process is automated. |
It's really hard to get to this kind of level of nice tooling automation in existing projects, so it's not gonna help me out with requests any time soon, but I'm really loving it for my new projects... So check out Semantic Release on GitHub. Paul? |
**Paul Frazee:** Well, I don't think I've got a pick for you, but I will say I am enjoying watching Game of Thrones' last season. If you haven't heard about it, it's a little show on HBO... \[laughter\] Real fun. I highly recommend it. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** \[laughs\] Yeah, I had not heard of it. |
**Alex Sexton:** Can you spell that? |
**Paul Frazee:** There's a guy George R.R. -- I don't know... Is it Martinez? I think... Look it up, it's pretty cool. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** I think it's Dinklage. |
**Paul Frazee:** Oh, yes! |
**Mikeal Rogers:** \[laughs\] Alright, that's our show. Thanks for everybody on the live stream and everybody listening at home. Thank you all! Goodbye! |
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• Discussion of JavaScript and the web |
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• Initial Coin Offering (ICO) discussion: |
• Brave browser's attention token |
• Similar approach taken by other companies to raise funding through coin creation and public offering |
• Tax implications and potential use of offshore company formations |
• Discussion of unusual power source using fidget spinners and electromagnetism |
• Explanation of basic attention token and its Ethereum-based nature |
• Conversation about the rise of cryptocurrencies and their potential for mainstream use |
• Mention of various coins, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and their relative importance |
• Personal experience with Dogecoin mining and ownership |
• Discussion of using cryptocurrencies as a means of transferring money between friends |
• Explanation of capital gains taxes on cryptocurrency transactions |
• Example of using Bitcoin to buy a house and the potential tax implications |
• Cryptocurrencies are considered digital property by the SEC and IRS |
• They can fluctuate in value like stocks or currency in a pocket, subject to inflation and exchange rates |
• Blockchains have applications beyond currency speculation, including transparency and provability for various use cases |
• Brave's Basic Attention Token is a solution to ad market problems such as fraud and fake clicks |
• It provides a provable way to show attention spent on content or advertisements |
• The token can also enable micro payments to websites based on time spent on them |
• The cost of using multiple websites or applications can add up due to advertising revenue models |
• A conversation on a JS party about the value of time spent online, with discussion points including the chasm between native applications and web applications |
• Limitations of bandwidth in certain regions, affecting costs and internet access |
• Early days of funding the web through advertising, and its drawbacks |
• Brave browser's approach to blocking tracking and advertisements, and their alternative token-based funding model |
• The use of Patreon for content creators, with concerns about low earning potential and relying on audience support |
• The idea that there is no one-size-fits-all solution for funding content and open-source projects. |
• Perception that creators are already being rewarded in other ways may reduce incentives for using blockchain-based models |
• Blockchain has many potential use cases for transparent and provable transactions, but is currently overhyped |
• Some people will be more incentivized to create content with a basic attention token model than others |
• The value of blockchain lies not in its current applications, but in the new products and services it enables |
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