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Decentralized naming -- Bitcoin solves Zooko's triangle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle Hrr
by cjbprime 9y ago
Decentralized naming -- Bitcoin solves Zooko's triangle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle
Hrr, I see the Wikipedia page says that Bitcoin doesn't provide "human-readable". But I think it does. You can register names on the blockchain and assign them to bitcoin addresses using OP_RETURN comments, with every party agreeing on who knows which human-readable name, despite having no centralization.
- clamprecht 9y agoAaronsw's take on this (from January 2011): http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/squarezooko http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/squarezooko
- ajarmst 9y agoI'm not sure what you mean by "Solves Zooko's Triangle", as the Triangle is an assertion of a problem (trilemma) that can't be solved. If you mean "refutes", I disagree. Besides the problem with names, bitcoin is, of course, vulnerable on the security side---to 50% or more of computing power being used maliciously (or being fraudulently converted to hidden malicious use). While the distributed nature of bitcoin strongly mitigates this once the network is big enough, the point of Zooko's Triangle is that you have to accept no better than mitigation of risk on at least one leg, not its elimination. The possibility of Sybil attacks also point out issues associated with the anonymity of other network participants and the possibility of hidden collusion.
- diggan 9y agoI think "Claim to solve" would be correct. There are other systems that claims to solve Zooko's Triangle as well, PetNames is one of them: http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/petnames/IntroPetNames.html http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/petnames/IntroPetNames.html
- ajarmst 9y agoThat's a good point. I was being overly pedantic.