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Sigh. Some day I hope I can get this project funded: https://github.com/WOTvision/wot1 https://github.com/WOTvision/wot1 "This is a repository containing an im

by ivoras 5y ago

Sigh. Some day I hope I can get this project funded: https://github.com/WOTvision/wot1 https://github.com/WOTvision/wot1 "This is a repository containing an implementation of a blockchain which supports an unique feature set: asserting trust of information organised in JSON documents. The goal is to have a global public notary service, for people and corporations to issue signed statements which are globally recognized and verifyable, which are identified by a QR code, which the media and news channels can reproduce and which can be verified by the consumers of information (i.e. ordinary people). The vision is to combat fake news by using a thing blockchains are very good at: distributing reliable data, and by providing a low-tech user-centric interface to it, which everyone can use to verify random junk they hear on the media."

mrkramer 5y ago
For example you can already embed messages inside Bitcoin transactions and then crawl and index them all from Bitcoin's blockchain. Organizations can prove and verify their Bitcoin addresses using PGP.
amelius 5y ago
But how can the public know which submission to the blockchain is the ground truth?
yyyk 5y ago
What is the value in this project? If the purpose is to let X make statement Y and prove did X said Y and only Y, there are at least five more prevalent standards to do so ranging from other blockchains to web sites/archiving, DNS records, various archives across the world, etc. We can make the QR example work today with a URL. All these mechanisms are much more likely to survive longer than the suggested project, and are less subject to Proof-of-work energy waste. That leaves the voting mechanism, which isn't very useful either - truth isn't subject to majority vote.
helmholtz 5y ago
When all you've got's a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Some software engineers seem to walk around with this belief that all of life's problems can be solved through software. It's so strange! No other field has this kind of thought process. Electrical engineers don't immediately start cabling wiring things, mechanical engineers don't fire up CNC lathes at the drop of a hat. Yet here we have a coder who thinks that blockchain will solve everything. That JSON will solve everything!

by ivoras 5y ago

mrkramer 5y ago

For example you can already embed messages inside Bitcoin transactions and then crawl and index them all from Bitcoin's blockchain. Organizations can prove and verify their Bitcoin addresses using PGP.

amelius 5y ago

But how can the public know which submission to the blockchain is the ground truth?

yyyk 5y ago

What is the value in this project? If the purpose is to let X make statement Y and prove did X said Y and only Y, there are at least five more prevalent standards to do so ranging from other blockchains to web sites/archiving, DNS records, various archives across the world, etc. We can make the QR example work today with a URL. All these mechanisms are much more likely to survive longer than the suggested project, and are less subject to Proof-of-work energy waste. That leaves the voting mechanism, which isn't very useful either - truth isn't subject to majority vote.

helmholtz 5y ago

When all you've got's a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Some software engineers seem to walk around with this belief that all of life's problems can be solved through software. It's so strange! No other field has this kind of thought process. Electrical engineers don't immediately start cabling wiring things, mechanical engineers don't fire up CNC lathes at the drop of a hat. Yet here we have a coder who thinks that blockchain will solve everything. That JSON will solve everything!