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Well, we must be careful about what goes into blockchain. I've once publicly announced my love for my geeky GF in the transaction data of my Ethereum transactio

Well, we must be careful about what goes into blockchain. I've once publicly announced my love for my geeky GF in the transaction data of my Ethereum transaction, which was cool at the time... Then we broke up.

saurik 5y ago
Did you at least update your relationship status, or were you dating long enough for the transaction fees to have gone up enough to make that unreasonably expensive? ;P
arvinsim 5y ago
Could be worse, you might have gotten a big tattoo
- rgrmrts 5y ago
  Tattoos can be removed these days :p edit: this is not a value statement about blockchains
dna_polymerase 5y ago
And isn't that just great? In order to verify my $1 payment to McDonalds all we have to do is acknowledge that can16358p loved his GF once. \s I think no needing to store the whole chain while also not relying on verified shards or trusted peers will be a major breakthrough for BC-Tech in the future. Mina looks promising in that regard.
- spinny 5y ago
  can16358p paid for tx fees when the tx was mined. from that perspective that data should be there and even contributes to the network security. you too can write crap to the blockchain. Still remember that years ago, before the bitcoin core client started to obfuscate on disk data, people mined transactions with EICAR as data and that got picked up by AVs
- jtsiskin 5y ago
  You already don’t need to. State is a merkle tree. https://eth.wiki/concepts/light-client-protocol https://eth.wiki/concepts/light-client-protocol
antihero 5y ago
Simply find a new girlfriend who hates the blockchain.
- can16358p 5y ago
  While it's a great solution to the particular issue, I don't think I'd personally get along well with a girl who hates blockchain.
  - antihero 5y ago
    Ah, I only get along with girls that hate the blockchain :)
upofadown 5y ago
There are some that claim that the distributed PGP keyserver system is intrinsically illegal under the GDPR because there is no way for a user to remove the personal information they might upload there. The system is distributed and is append only. You would have to get every single server operator to agree to update the data at the same instant which obviously is impractical. People have actually taken down servers based on this idea. Blockchains would be just as illegal. So if you are in the EU you could try requesting that Ethereum be taken down under your right to remove your personal data from a database.
- faeyanpiraat 5y ago
  How would anyone just “take down” ethereum?
  - Duralias 5y ago
    If the EU actually wanted to "take down" ethereum then they have a few avenues they could take. I think it is technically already illegal for EU citizens's data to exist on non-EU blockchains, so a legal cryptocurrency could only exist within the EU or any country with a data-sharing agreement (which I do not think currently includes the US right now). So just listing things they could do: Make it illegal to host the data/be a validator would relegate crypto to something that is only used for illegal purposes. Write into law that GDPR still applies to blockchains, the validators cannot stay anonymous so they either remove the data from the blockchain or get police knocking on their door. Any other use that this would be illegal so could never be used for anything legal inside the EU, lowering it down to a similar priority as piracy, being effectively neutralized, aka not affecting the majority of EU citizen.
    - kyruzic 5y ago
      You can make up all the laws you want, you aren't blocking access to eth.
      - Duralias 5y ago
lostmsu 5y ago
Not a problem: just treat your love as NFT.
pfraze 5y ago
For future reference, issues like this can be avoided by using “event” rather than “fact” semantics. The data published on the chain is a fact “can16358p loves girlfriend” which doesn’t imply any time window. An event semantic of “can16358p loved girlfriend” would have made this much less confusing, and in this case something akin to a certificate expiration with frequent renewals might have helped.
ASalazarMX 5y ago
Announce your breakup in another transaction: "I no longer love my geeky GF".
- can16358p 5y ago
  Next time I'll make a smart contract that I can invoke to change feelings. Might be a good Solidity tutorial.

saurik 5y ago

Did you at least update your relationship status, or were you dating long enough for the transaction fees to have gone up enough to make that unreasonably expensive? ;P

arvinsim 5y ago

Could be worse, you might have gotten a big tattoo

rgrmrts 5y ago
Tattoos can be removed these days :p edit: this is not a value statement about blockchains

dna_polymerase 5y ago

And isn't that just great? In order to verify my $1 payment to McDonalds all we have to do is acknowledge that can16358p loved his GF once. \s I think no needing to store the whole chain while also not relying on verified shards or trusted peers will be a major breakthrough for BC-Tech in the future. Mina looks promising in that regard.

spinny 5y ago
can16358p paid for tx fees when the tx was mined. from that perspective that data should be there and even contributes to the network security. you too can write crap to the blockchain. Still remember that years ago, before the bitcoin core client started to obfuscate on disk data, people mined transactions with EICAR as data and that got picked up by AVs
jtsiskin 5y ago
You already don’t need to. State is a merkle tree. https://eth.wiki/concepts/light-client-protocol https://eth.wiki/concepts/light-client-protocol

antihero 5y ago

Simply find a new girlfriend who hates the blockchain.

can16358p 5y ago
While it's a great solution to the particular issue, I don't think I'd personally get along well with a girl who hates blockchain.
- antihero 5y ago
  Ah, I only get along with girls that hate the blockchain :)

upofadown 5y ago

There are some that claim that the distributed PGP keyserver system is intrinsically illegal under the GDPR because there is no way for a user to remove the personal information they might upload there. The system is distributed and is append only. You would have to get every single server operator to agree to update the data at the same instant which obviously is impractical. People have actually taken down servers based on this idea. Blockchains would be just as illegal. So if you are in the EU you could try requesting that Ethereum be taken down under your right to remove your personal data from a database.

faeyanpiraat 5y ago
How would anyone just “take down” ethereum?
- Duralias 5y ago
  If the EU actually wanted to "take down" ethereum then they have a few avenues they could take. I think it is technically already illegal for EU citizens's data to exist on non-EU blockchains, so a legal cryptocurrency could only exist within the EU or any country with a data-sharing agreement (which I do not think currently includes the US right now). So just listing things they could do: Make it illegal to host the data/be a validator would relegate crypto to something that is only used for illegal purposes. Write into law that GDPR still applies to blockchains, the validators cannot stay anonymous so they either remove the data from the blockchain or get police knocking on their door. Any other use that this would be illegal so could never be used for anything legal inside the EU, lowering it down to a similar priority as piracy, being effectively neutralized, aka not affecting the majority of EU citizen.
  - kyruzic 5y ago
    You can make up all the laws you want, you aren't blocking access to eth.
    - Duralias 5y ago

lostmsu 5y ago

Not a problem: just treat your love as NFT.

pfraze 5y ago

For future reference, issues like this can be avoided by using “event” rather than “fact” semantics. The data published on the chain is a fact “can16358p loves girlfriend” which doesn’t imply any time window. An event semantic of “can16358p loved girlfriend” would have made this much less confusing, and in this case something akin to a certificate expiration with frequent renewals might have helped.

ASalazarMX 5y ago

Announce your breakup in another transaction: "I no longer love my geeky GF".

can16358p 5y ago
Next time I'll make a smart contract that I can invoke to change feelings. Might be a good Solidity tutorial.