Prediction markets are a fascinating potential application for cryptocurrencies. The details of who and how a claim is verified are challenging though.
https://info.binance.com/en/research/marketresearch/augur-design-flaws.html
(But it looks like the several political outcomes are already available on UK betting exchanges.)
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PLDB is an ambitious project to catalogue all the different programming languages out there: https://pldb.com/lists/languages.html
It's showing a ton of potential (over 4,000 items recorded!) although it's still pretty young (I just fixed the LLVM IR comment syntax).
I'm optimistic about the potential of RISC-V and excited to see where it goes.
I wasn't expecting to see a *soldering iron* with a RISC-V processor though!
Benchmarking web assembly, and discussing its maturity for large projects: https://www.pdftron.com/blog/wasm/wasm-vs-pnacl/
While it's viable for many purposes today, wasm still feels like it has a ton of potential to grow and evolve.
