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    Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 Jan 15
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    Or hey, here's a radical idea: reduce the number of features N.pic.twitter.com/s5PtMBthTT

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    • Denzel Stackmore🔑⚡️🔦 neetcoiner [100k Powellcoins] Kai Brünnler Capt'n CryptObvious Ledger Alpha Alex Schleber 👽👌 dan ☀️💧Leon-Gerard Vandenberg 🇨🇦🇦🇺
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      2. Nicolas Dorier‏ @NicolasDorier Jan 15
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        That's actually a problem in lots of project. Managers thinking more dev = can get more done. Which is true up to a point... It also mean more maintenance, more communication, more buggy code, regression and user workflow broken. "The mythical man month" is a timeless book.

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      3. Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 Jan 15
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        tMMM was among my earliest lessons in the limits of social scalability (in this case of engineering teams)pic.twitter.com/KI81KqvIeb

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      2. Michael Goldstein‏ @bitstein Jan 15
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        I’ve longed argued that Ethereum could be made into a proper Bitcoin competitor if it adopted an extremely strict monetary policy, increased block times, replaced Solidity with a Forth-like stack language…

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      3. Andrew‏ @andrew__rivers Jan 15
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        Hey Michael, what do you think of bitcoin simplicity?

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      4. Michael Goldstein‏ @bitstein Jan 15
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        Replying to @andrew__rivers @NickSzabo4

        It’s a very awesome research project, and I can’t wait to see how it develops.

        0 replies 0 retweets 16 likes
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      1. Rex‏ @private_rex Jan 15
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        Gall's Law states that all complex systems that work evolved from simpler systems that worked.

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      2. Adam Back‏ @adam3us Jan 16
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        also O(2^N) >>> O(N^2)

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      3. nothingmuch‏ @mHaGqnOACyFm0h5 Jan 16
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        true innovation comes from the fauxtoshi school of combinatorics

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      1. Gam‏ @gammichan Jan 15
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        Skycoin's CX language takes this approach with affordances to restrict functionality (N).https://medium.com/@Skycoinproject/developing-cx-f8b54b58c1cc …

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      2. Alex Mizrahi‏ @killerstorm Jan 15
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        The computer you're using now contains around 1 billion transistors. So there's a billion of things which could go wrong. And yet it works. So what you say is like approaching people who try to build a general-purpose computer and telling them they should build a calculator

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      3. Alex Mizrahi‏ @killerstorm Jan 15
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        instead. Simpler, sure. But not the same thing at all. I'm sure Vitalik already reduced the number of features N to the bare minimum needed to accomplish what he has in mind, and further reduction will remove functionality the system is supposed to have.

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      1. BitNovosti.com ⚡️‏ @bit_novosti Jan 16
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        Sure, cut off all the buzzword "features", radically reduce all the unnecessary complexity, minimize the attack surface and you end up with... Bitcoin?!

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      1. HuntingIsland - 'ETH is programmable money'‏ @IslandHunting Jan 15
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        Well then you get a blockchain that doesn't do interesting stuff like DeFi and project funding and stablecoins and derivatives and DEXes and tokens.

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      1. Paul Allen‏ @BornAgainCrypto Jan 15
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        KISS

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      1.  🍪‏ @SrBitcorn Jan 15
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        Nah, need as much mumbo jumbo as possible to sell it.

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      1. FORTIOR EX VULNERIBVS‏ @lucash_dev Jan 15
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        The fundamental issue is that an attacker can have arbitrary code interact with your contract. That’s by design. Imagine if Bitcoin script was still concatenated instead if evaluated sequencially. And nobody wanted to fix it because it was a core feature.

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      1. Bob McElrath‏ @BobMcElrath Jan 16
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        This is one reason I'm optimistic for Grin and the removal of scripting. Our MPC future awaits.

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      2. Newsy‏ @newsy789 Jan 15
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        While I agree, it’d be nice to be able to create smart contracts on Bitcoin as easily as is possible on Ethereum, but...

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      3. bitcoiner‏ @AnselLindner Jan 15
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        Why?

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