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The Great Chain of Being Sure About Things
- saeranv 11y agoThis is the first I've heard of using blockchains for things such fraud-proof land registries. That's pretty exciting, that alone would be a huge step towards bringing the developing world into the broader formal economic system.
- carsongross 11y agoNick Szabo, who is possibly Satoshi Nakamoto (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo) has many worthwhile papers here: http://szabo.best.vwh.net/ http://szabo.best.vwh.net/ Including "Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks" and "A Formal Language for Analyzing Contracts". All of his essays are extremely well written and interesting.
- saeranv 11y agoFascinating. Currently reading this one: http://szabo.best.vwh.net/securetitle.html http://szabo.best.vwh.net/securetitle.html "Secure Property Titles with Owner Authority".
- azernik 11y agoThis is a shockingly good piece of tech journalism.
- vithlani 11y agoThe Economist has a shockingly good record of doing good journalism. We need more magazines like this, especially covering the tech world.