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Kudos to these app experts. The dude I'd probably listen to most is Paul Kemp, known for The App Guy Podcast. He had an influencer on his show last year talking

Kudos to these app experts. The dude I'd probably listen to most is Paul Kemp, known for The App Guy Podcast. He had an influencer on his show last year talking about Blockchain technology. I guess we'll have to wait (yet) another year to see if this prediction comes true.

Mahn 10y ago
Seems like "the year of the blockchain" is the new "the year of the Linux desktop".
alex_hirner 10y ago
Talking about using "the blockchain" doesn't qualify. Rather the opposite. The real value will be on the fringes of that ecosystem and has little or nothing to do with chaining blocks: secure multiparty computation, testing the potential of synergies in data with bloom filters and differential privacy. Source: running an ethereum meetup since 2014 and (very likely) writing the world's first crowdfunding contract in LLL.
- sanswork 10y ago
  Are you planning something like Lighthouse?
  - alex_hirner 10y ago
    No. The trust you need for a central curator is trivial compared to what's needed toward fundees. Anonymity aggravates problems with accountability. Thus, I don't find crowdsourcing to be a particular good example where blockchain-ideas help to create and coordinate collective action. Yet, I think there are two areas where value can be added to kickstarter: 1) scheduled payouts where funders vote to cut project funds in absence of progress and 2) make the curation process more transparent. However, I figured that what's holding all the blockchain collaboration platforms back are not only scalability and cost issues. More importantly, people don't want to broadcast their data for very uncertain returns. You can see that in haggling parties for when and who gets access to aggregate data in the connected car, health care and scientific research. Therefore, I focus to find meaningful ways around data-sharing tensions, specifically in battery R&D [1]. One way is to align academic and commercial interests better. The other way is to objectively measure what a data donor's synergistic effect was on the platform as a whole. This kind of computable attribution is hard, but I think doable at some point and in some narrow domains earlier. Some infrastructure that allows to selectively reveal and collaborate on data is put forward by guys at MIT [2]. [1] http://openbatt.org http://openbatt.org [2] http://www.enigma.co http://www.enigma.co

Mahn 10y ago

Seems like "the year of the blockchain" is the new "the year of the Linux desktop".

alex_hirner 10y ago

Talking about using "the blockchain" doesn't qualify. Rather the opposite. The real value will be on the fringes of that ecosystem and has little or nothing to do with chaining blocks: secure multiparty computation, testing the potential of synergies in data with bloom filters and differential privacy. Source: running an ethereum meetup since 2014 and (very likely) writing the world's first crowdfunding contract in LLL.

sanswork 10y ago
Are you planning something like Lighthouse?
- alex_hirner 10y ago
  No. The trust you need for a central curator is trivial compared to what's needed toward fundees. Anonymity aggravates problems with accountability. Thus, I don't find crowdsourcing to be a particular good example where blockchain-ideas help to create and coordinate collective action. Yet, I think there are two areas where value can be added to kickstarter: 1) scheduled payouts where funders vote to cut project funds in absence of progress and 2) make the curation process more transparent. However, I figured that what's holding all the blockchain collaboration platforms back are not only scalability and cost issues. More importantly, people don't want to broadcast their data for very uncertain returns. You can see that in haggling parties for when and who gets access to aggregate data in the connected car, health care and scientific research. Therefore, I focus to find meaningful ways around data-sharing tensions, specifically in battery R&D [1]. One way is to align academic and commercial interests better. The other way is to objectively measure what a data donor's synergistic effect was on the platform as a whole. This kind of computable attribution is hard, but I think doable at some point and in some narrow domains earlier. Some infrastructure that allows to selectively reveal and collaborate on data is put forward by guys at MIT [2]. [1] http://openbatt.org http://openbatt.org [2] http://www.enigma.co http://www.enigma.co