Platzi
La comunidad de aprendizaje donde desarrollas tus habilidades
91 / Platzi, a learning community geared towards the Spanish-speaking audience. Naty, from Platzi, sheds light on the platform's vision, fostering a sense of community beyond mere content delivery. The importance of blockchain in Latin America was underscored, given the tech and language barriers. Platzi, with its eight different schools, emphasizes hands-on experiences like hackathons. The episode also touches on the broader perspective of blockchain's reception in Latin American governments, with countries like Argentina being rather skeptical. Another key highlight is the exploration of a technical Solidity issue about exponential decay presented by @037. The overarching theme emphasizes learning through doing, with a nod to Platzi's impactful role in the tech education space.
Found blockchain as a way for savings, good compared to fiat then got into the “rabbit hole”! There are still language/tech barriers for the articles/guides in this space.
Why chemistry
See blockchain + industrial in the future
Barriers for blockchain in Latin America
Documents are usually in only English
Technically, too difficult
Platzi for Spanish speaking audience, we need to share/help each other learn about tech especially b/c community is more important than the training
“About the community, not just the content”
Lots of platforms focused on financial gain, but not as many about helping
Retirement plans, paying for subscriptions
Sending money back home
Buying foreign subscriptions like Netflix
Platsy has 8 different schools
Blockchain school is one of them, run by a director
Also have course directors who produce content – applying best practices and help manage community
Creators directly produce audio-visual content
Not just listening to theory, also putting ideas into practice
Activities like challenges and hackathons for the community to participate in
Naty started 5 months ago, second person in the role
First milestone is developing an understanding of needs, the second is creating products–we’re not going to survive on bounties
Allows digital signing for one wallet from another wallet – for example, cold wallet at home and hot wallet on mobile phone
Platzi interested to teach people proper security methods
Naty “Freedom is linked to responsibility”
Low security literacy in LatAm
Account abstraction and delegates can be a good way to help
What if you die tomorrow? Relatives won’t understand what to do with a seed phrase
Dan question “I want to hear Naty’s perspective on governments in Latam and how supportive or unsupportive they are of blockchain education efforts like Platzi”
Argentinia has frozen banks in the bank and this may happen with custodial marketplaces and wallets
Current position of the government is relatively anti-crypto, but that may change with elections
In Brazil it’s more open. Mercadolibre has their own coin
It might not even include people thinking about technical topics like blockchain
@037 (if we have extra time): Solidity issue regarding exponents; I want to derive a computation for a rewards system using negative decay but solidity doesn’t seem to work well with fraction exponents. The formula I’m looking at is
“reward = reward * e^(-1/100)” ,
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Same as “reward = reward / e^(1/100)” (to avoid using a negative power)
where each time it is computed it is less than
what it was before (but in a manner where it can be executed as many times without exceeding its bounded limit). Euler’s number can be represented with a large uint256 (assuming no overflows and we divide it by a base number at the end so we don’t lose information) but the fraction in the exponent won’t work since 1/100 gets reduced to 0 since there are no decimals (and so e^0 is 1 and our reward stays the same after execution). Also, e^(1/100) is the same as 100 root (e), but calculating nth root seems gas expensive and not friendly towards numbers with 18 decimal places (typical ERC20 placement).
