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Can anyone else name a distributed public data store that acts as a point of truth that is not controlled by anyone in particular? Can anyone else name a syste

Can anyone else name a distributed public data store that acts as a point of truth that is not controlled by anyone in particular? Can anyone else name a system where everyone has equal read and write privileges to a data store where that data is reliably available? Look at this stuff: http://coinsecrets.org/ http://coinsecrets.org/ http://cryptograffiti.info/# http://cryptograffiti.info/# https://www.coinprism.info/address/1BvvRfz4XnxSWJ524TusetYKrtZnAbgV3r https://www.coinprism.info/address/1BvvRfz4XnxSWJ524TusetYKr... https://blockchain.info/new-transactions https://blockchain.info/new-transactions The currency aspect and the incentives for mining keep these transactions secure and make sure they're propagated to clients over the network. There has never been any thing remotely like this kind of shared public space on the Internet. Blogs and RSS are private residences. Twitter and Facebook are giant private residences that many people interact within. The Bitcoin blockchain is like a public park or sidewalk. We've never seen anything like it before.

wmf 12y ago
Maybe one day they'll even add a good payment system to it.
- williamcotton 12y ago
  There's a lot of truth to that somewhat sarcastic response and I agree that Bitcoin probably won't be the kind of day-to-day mechanism that people use to buy lunch and concert tickets. It's a shame you didn't really engage with what I had to say.
  - codehalo 12y ago
    Don't expect real conversation regarding bitcoin, most of the people that comment on bitcoin related threads are trolls and bank shills.
zaroth 12y ago
There's definitely an identity crisis, because core Bitcoin users believe in the primacy of currency. If it's not a financial use, some even consider it an unethical or unfair or exploitative use of the Bitcoin blockchain. So then you have altcoins, which you would hope someone would consolidate into a converged tree-like blockchain. But ultimately it's the services that are built on top which provide/capture the value.
cjg 12y ago
For me, the best link you gave was coinsecrets.org. Most of the listed blockchain metadata seems to point off to one of these three: https://github.com/OpenAssets/open-assets-protocol/blob/master/specification.mediawiki https://github.com/OpenAssets/open-assets-protocol/blob/mast... http://coinspark.org/ http://coinspark.org/ http://www.proofofexistence.com/ http://www.proofofexistence.com/

wmf 12y ago

Maybe one day they'll even add a good payment system to it.

williamcotton 12y ago
There's a lot of truth to that somewhat sarcastic response and I agree that Bitcoin probably won't be the kind of day-to-day mechanism that people use to buy lunch and concert tickets. It's a shame you didn't really engage with what I had to say.
- codehalo 12y ago
  Don't expect real conversation regarding bitcoin, most of the people that comment on bitcoin related threads are trolls and bank shills.

zaroth 12y ago

There's definitely an identity crisis, because core Bitcoin users believe in the primacy of currency. If it's not a financial use, some even consider it an unethical or unfair or exploitative use of the Bitcoin blockchain. So then you have altcoins, which you would hope someone would consolidate into a converged tree-like blockchain. But ultimately it's the services that are built on top which provide/capture the value.

cjg 12y ago

For me, the best link you gave was coinsecrets.org. Most of the listed blockchain metadata seems to point off to one of these three: https://github.com/OpenAssets/open-assets-protocol/blob/master/specification.mediawiki https://github.com/OpenAssets/open-assets-protocol/blob/mast... http://coinspark.org/ http://coinspark.org/ http://www.proofofexistence.com/ http://www.proofofexistence.com/