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by timdaub 1919 days ago
Hey,

great job on the landing page, it looks good!

Two questions:

- How are you coping with expensive gas on main net right now?

- Do you have a document describing how your token works on a technical level. Like a spec or so.

Thanks and good luck!
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VukT 1919 days ago
There are a couple of medium posts describing technical background of the platform and token itself such as: https://cryptotask.medium.com/cryptotask-combines-defr-and-d... https://cryptotask.medium.com/technical-background-of-crypto...

We are running on AEternity blockchain (https://aeternity.com/), making gas fees sufficiently low. There have been 19.5k transactions https://www.aeknow.org/contract/detail/ct_X3szYGp5irejPsowXp... and we are alive :)

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hanniabu 1919 days ago
Ooof, didn't know you were running on AEternity. That in itself would be a no for me. I would definitely love to participate if there was a decision to move to ETH when Optimism is released.
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Rule35 1919 days ago
Why? The blockchain technologically, the UI difficulty of another chain, or the currency?
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hanniabu 1919 days ago
Because of all innovation is happening on Ethereum, so yes I don't want to deal with the UX difficulty of using another chain. Also I wouldn't want to invest (both time and $) into a project on a 2nd rate platform. Not to mention it doesn't reflect well on the project to not consider the network effect nor the planned L2 solutions that are here to address scalability. I highly recommend looking into Optimism. I'm not sure what the difference of AE and ETH EVM is (forked?), but I know that if you have a project in Solidity then you can launch on Optimism with little to no changes (just use their compiler).
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vmception 1919 days ago
who cares? they are just dropping junk storage onto random blockchain enthusiast's computers for basically free instead of AWS and are clearly paying their talent with a token that trades on the Ethereum network via Uniswap. Would you even notice?

You aren't a developer for them so you don't have to worry about Erlang, their token doesn't need an Aeternity wallet if it trades on Ethereum, and even if you do earn their token on the Aeternity blockchain they could just offer a bridge on their own website.

Let me know if I missed something, how is this your problem?

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T0Bi 1919 days ago
Because on Ethereum, they could connect/be integrated with other projects. As most dapps are on Ethereum and the network effect is probably the most important factor in crypto, this will continue to be the case.

Therefore it's highly unlikely that CryptoTask will ever have integrations with existing or potential new Dapps.

This might not be relevant right now, but it certainly will be in the future.

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timdaub 1919 days ago
On AEternity! Wow, I've participated in their ICO back then.

Thanks for the details, I'll take a look.

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imaginationra 1919 days ago
No Ethereum network- no go for me as well.
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vmception 1919 days ago
Their token trades on Uniswap so what difference does that make for you? Who cares where they dump their junk data?
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terhechte 1919 days ago
Not the author, but it should be possible for them to move to a Layer 2 solution soon. Examples are Optimism, Fuel, or Loopring. They’re all still in beta though (I think)
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