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Bitmessage is a wonderful example of turning the scalability vs privacy dial all the way to the right. The primitives are all due an update. Proof of Work suck
by Rhapso 2y ago
Bitmessage is a wonderful example of turning the scalability vs privacy dial all the way to the right.
The primitives are all due an update. Proof of Work sucks. But otherwise, all-to-all epidemic broadcast is the path to minimal message metadata leaking.
- hanniabu 2y agoLook up proof of stake
- Rhapso 2y agoha, no thanks. it also can't work for bitmessage, there is no coin to stake.
- freeqaz 2y agoHold my beer In TechCrunch: AnonMailCoin announces ICO, seeks to provide the Web 4.0 of email
- therein 2y agoImagine if you could stake private messages. If a node is proven to have cheated, all other nodes form a consensus and leak its private messages. But nothing at stake, as is the case with most PoS.
- bawolff 2y agoI mean, if you really want the scalability vs privacy dial all the way to the right, i assume you would use dining cryptographer nets. Much older than proof of work, and literally as private as theoretically possible.
- evbogue 2y agoIt's been more than ten years since I used Bitmessage but wasn't message flooding what caused its downfall?
- Scoundreller 2y agoSounds like the first iteration of gnutella: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnutella https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnutella