What's the technology behind this. I'm working on something myself, using a distributed actor model (setup like a graph) to create a living reactive model.
The model is a multi-threaded Go script running on a 512-thread AMD EPYC server. It's a trend based model so it's just trying to figure out how best to measure and predict trend changes. Not day trading or HFT.
It conducts millions of simulations daily for each asset, then provides a snapshot of the top-performing results to GPT-4o for final selection.
I'm really pushing the limits of GPT-4o currently. I started testing with o1 just last week and it performs better. It's just so much more expensive.
"Interesting. This isn't just a decentralized marketplace, there seems to be something bigger going on. If you look closely at the screenshots, you will see there seems to be a social integration within it too. Notice there is the ability to follow stores. I'd imagine that would mean there will be a feed to consume all the new items and content from the stores you're following too. This isn't going to be the application you pop in to buy something once a month with Bitcoin, it's going to be a social platform with commerce layered in that you visit every day.
This seems like what every artist, social media star, author, photographer, musician, etc needs. Build a strong following, post an update of a new song, content or anything and people can pay to play/read it right away. New types of pay to read blogs will likely start to emerge in the market. New social media stars will emerge by creating edgy stores where people can pay them to do/draw/write/sing/play/cook/photograph/wear/eat certain things. A new social channel will come to life and the content and stores will be like something we've never seen on the internet before. It's going to be very very interesting people.
What I am concerned about is my privacy. Bitcoin is not so anonymous: whoever you pay will know your bitcoin address. And even if you create pseudonyms, money can be traced unless you use some mixes and "money laundry" services.
As for buying photographs it may be ok, but I would not pay for news articles (such as LWN, for example) with non-anonymous account.
Recently HN discussed Chaum's ideas [1] and DigiCash [2]. His ecash [3] system was going to be something like an anonymous Google Wallet. Bitcoin wins in being decentralized, it does not need a bank or Google to issue electronic cash and guarantee that you can eventually get real money in return. But it is not anonymous.
I think decentralized mixing is on the horizon and may become baked into bitcoin wallets down the line. I'm speculating based on the emergence of protocols like FairExchange and Xim http://forensics.umass.edu/pubs/bissias.wpes.2014.pdf
Could they just float themselves on some sort of bitcoin stock market so as a retail investor, I can throw some BTC their way and get a small % of their company?
It's so frustrating seeing ideas I know will become big and not being able to put my money there. I understand the startup world pretty well but as I'm not a VC I have no way of getting skin in the game. Instead putting my money into blue-chips and YOLOing on IPOs from companies that are already huge.
That's a cool idea. Curation will become hugely important on OpenBazaar as well. I'd recommend getting on the platform early and curating awesome store content across the network for your followers, e.g. @shoes could find the best shoes on the network and post links to them for their followers to find easier.
Paywalls, I would think, are primarily a blocker because the site is wasting my time and asking me for personal info. If my Bitcoin account is already hooked up, I recon those things should go away. We'll have to see how it goes though. I think I'd much rather click one button and pay a tiny amount of Internet Funny Money than watch an obnoxious ad.
Yeah we can eventually make it a single click, plus you would be paying directly to people you already know/ trust / admire or whatever, plus it's micropayments; maybe 10 cents to read an article from your favorite blogger. You support them directly and they can make a living doing so if they have enough followers.
Great suggestion. I'm working on preloading a set of images so that things are much more snappy each time you open a new tab. Currently, it fetches the low res and overrides it with the high res when it is finished loading.
I've been working on the same concept for the past 2y now and have our performance results here: https://trend.fi/performance
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