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The next step would be doing these interactions - service registration, search, negotiation, usage, payments, certification etc. without a trusted, centralized
by 7373737373 10y ago
The next step would be doing these interactions - service registration, search, negotiation, usage, payments, certification etc. without a trusted, centralized intermediary. Have a look at the https://ethereum.org https://ethereum.org project to see how this could work out. If these kind of distributed systems for messaging, data distribution and storage as well as consensus scale, intelligent agents will be able to interact with services and each other faster, efficiently and more secure than before.
- lowglow 10y agoI definitely think ethereum is a cool project. Unfortunately, I'll be a contrarian and say I don't think the answer is a completely distributed system. I think there is a few mixed options, but the totality must collapse to a central authority at some point.
- 7373737373 10y agoI'm not a maximalist either. Distributed networks are always less efficient than hierarchical systems at specific tasks. Some projects, such as the Bitcoin lightning network or Ethereums' Raiden therefore try to build faster payment or state networks on top of the distributed systems with them as point of last resolve in case of conflicts of cooperation or availability. Doing the inverse of this might also lead to interesting results.
- lowglow 10y agoWhat are you working on now? Care to reach out and chat? I'd like to pick your brain about some things.