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Reflections on Trusting ‘Trustlessness’ in the Era of “Crypto”/Blockchains [pdf]
- sambank 5y agoGood writing, novel and original points made.
- scrubs 5y agoTerrible writing! The author uses too many parenthetical phrases. And he adds nothing substantial merely standing on other people's work. And for goodness sakes, latex has ways of providing links sensibly. Please use it!
- zemo 5y agowhat’s the problem with the links? They’re clickable in the document and still state the URL if it’s printed to paper. anyway to your other point: synthesizing concepts from many writers to join them into one new framework is an age-old style of writing. There’s nothing particularly strange about it; it’s putting the author’s viewpoint in context with other prior writing that the audience is either familiar with or may be interested in reading to see those viewpoints further explored.
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- author_eg 5y ago@scrubs: i hear and feel u. Four points. 1. I agree about the aesthetics of the URLs -- grotesque! The URLs were provided in explicit form for reasons of transparency (aka trust/lessness) -- sometimes aesthetics is orthogonal to being transparent. 2. I suppose your background isn't TCS otherwise, we wouldn't have the debate about parenthetical expressions. 3. If you read the piece closely, you might realize some extensions of Ken Thompson's Turing Award Lecture (which in itself should be a must read!). 4. Thanks for taking the time to vocalize your sentiment.
- author_eg 5y ago@zemo: Wow! I'm impressed; that's a strong synopsis. Happy that at least some people understood some of the value.
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- author_eg 5y ago@sb: thanks for the kind, almost hyperbolic gesture.
- IncRnd 5y agoDo not trust anything outside the security boundary.
- bronzeage 5y agoEven the Blockchain isn't trustless: it shifts the entire burden of trust to the person paying. If the seller just runs away with the bitcoins after the transaction, without providing the goods, there's nothing the buyer can do.
- controlweather 5y agoEverrise is locking contracts and making the space safer.