antonyip/gist:4ddb068897cffc499d031de59a40df03

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1. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your history/involvement with Burst?
Hi, I'm ant. I joined Burst around March or April in 2017 when searching around for crypto currencies to invest in, Burst caught my eye as it was the only platform that was doing mining based on Proof-of-Capacity. At that time, burst-team.org vs burstnation was the main thing going on and I did some random activities such as the burst card competition (MR BURST! haha) and some photoshop for advertisements for H, on the burstize asset. Later on, I just watched the space burn during the burst transaction flooding wars, and the fiasco when Focus and Jason tried to bring a bunch of coders (Lex, Ice and the Cat guy) together in order to restart wallet development. Didn't really like what was happening there and decided to look into smart contracts.

2. What work have you done with Burst ATs? What was that experience like and what were your thoughts?
All my work can be found here (https://github.com/antonyip/BurstAT). I made a few simple smart contracts such as "Lottery" and "The King". (Go look them up on the burstnation forum if you are interested.) Hopefully the wiki is good enough for people to understand. It was mostly experimenting with opcodes and really watching the data in these contracts get updated every block, at that time, it was really fascinating to watch numbers change with each and every block update and trying to simulate what was happening in the block chain in my brain.

3. How would you compare Burst ATs to smart contracts on other platforms such as ethereum?
Burst AT's aren't as developed as other smart contracts on other platforms, the main issue that I have with it, is that every opcode (line of code) that is ran by a miner costs 1 burst. This makes the cost of running a simple contract (such as sending burst back from the smart contract itself) cost around 20 Burst. If these costs are brought down to maybe 0.001 burst per opcode, it could be as good as ethereum or any other contract once we bring in compilers and such.

4. What work is currently happening or needs to happen to bridge the gap?  Do you see Burst ever catching up to ethereum in terms of smart contract capability?
I don't think any work is currently happening to bridge the gap within the wallet itself. However, I see that in the dymaxion, there is a clause that wants to bring down the cost to run smart contracts. Of course, this has to be "voted" on and it will depend on the community to bring it to fruition. BurstJack is also trying to work on some system http://burst-marketplace.binary-dev.com/listings/?p=222 in order to bring some life back into the smart contract space.

5. What are you most excited for with the upcoming dymaxion hard forks?
Smart contract development. Doesn't really matter what is coming, but the current smart contract is really insufficient for any development work to be done on it. We also need better testnet and infractructure which the cryptogurus are currently providing. Once they bring the community together, actual development can finally happen on Burst.

6. What are some of the most interesting use cases you see for burst once dymaxion comes out?
If smart contracts work really well, the sky is the limit. Cryptokitties, atomic cross chain transactions can also happen.

7. Do you have any current projects you are interested in getting help or support with?
Not at the moment, but I would love for people who are working on smart contracts to get in touch with me through the github page. I would love for all the information (code or otherwise) that is learned by you to actually be on those wiki page so that future people wouldn't have to re-learn the same thing over again.

8. Any last words for the readers?
Contact me on the burst discord if you have any questions about smart contracts. I'm free to have a discussion on anything related to coding either way. www.antonyip.com for my portfolio if you are interested in what I actually do for a living. :D
	1. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your history/involvement with Burst?
	Hi, I'm ant. I joined Burst around March or April in 2017 when searching around for crypto currencies to invest in, Burst caught my eye as it was the only platform that was doing mining based on Proof-of-Capacity. At that time, burst-team.org vs burstnation was the main thing going on and I did some random activities such as the burst card competition (MR BURST! haha) and some photoshop for advertisements for H, on the burstize asset. Later on, I just watched the space burn during the burst transaction flooding wars, and the fiasco when Focus and Jason tried to bring a bunch of coders (Lex, Ice and the Cat guy) together in order to restart wallet development. Didn't really like what was happening there and decided to look into smart contracts.

	2. What work have you done with Burst ATs? What was that experience like and what were your thoughts?
	All my work can be found here (https://github.com/antonyip/BurstAT). I made a few simple smart contracts such as "Lottery" and "The King". (Go look them up on the burstnation forum if you are interested.) Hopefully the wiki is good enough for people to understand. It was mostly experimenting with opcodes and really watching the data in these contracts get updated every block, at that time, it was really fascinating to watch numbers change with each and every block update and trying to simulate what was happening in the block chain in my brain.

	3. How would you compare Burst ATs to smart contracts on other platforms such as ethereum?
	Burst AT's aren't as developed as other smart contracts on other platforms, the main issue that I have with it, is that every opcode (line of code) that is ran by a miner costs 1 burst. This makes the cost of running a simple contract (such as sending burst back from the smart contract itself) cost around 20 Burst. If these costs are brought down to maybe 0.001 burst per opcode, it could be as good as ethereum or any other contract once we bring in compilers and such.

	4. What work is currently happening or needs to happen to bridge the gap? Do you see Burst ever catching up to ethereum in terms of smart contract capability?
	I don't think any work is currently happening to bridge the gap within the wallet itself. However, I see that in the dymaxion, there is a clause that wants to bring down the cost to run smart contracts. Of course, this has to be "voted" on and it will depend on the community to bring it to fruition. BurstJack is also trying to work on some system http://burst-marketplace.binary-dev.com/listings/?p=222 in order to bring some life back into the smart contract space.

	5. What are you most excited for with the upcoming dymaxion hard forks?
	Smart contract development. Doesn't really matter what is coming, but the current smart contract is really insufficient for any development work to be done on it. We also need better testnet and infractructure which the cryptogurus are currently providing. Once they bring the community together, actual development can finally happen on Burst.

	6. What are some of the most interesting use cases you see for burst once dymaxion comes out?
	If smart contracts work really well, the sky is the limit. Cryptokitties, atomic cross chain transactions can also happen.

	7. Do you have any current projects you are interested in getting help or support with?
	Not at the moment, but I would love for people who are working on smart contracts to get in touch with me through the github page. I would love for all the information (code or otherwise) that is learned by you to actually be on those wiki page so that future people wouldn't have to re-learn the same thing over again.

	8. Any last words for the readers?
	Contact me on the burst discord if you have any questions about smart contracts. I'm free to have a discussion on anything related to coding either way. www.antonyip.com for my portfolio if you are interested in what I actually do for a living. :D