dystopiabreaker

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by dystopiabreaker 5y ago
crypto was not co-opted. FAANGies just got stuck on a WebPKI side quest. leading research in the field is being done by blockchain companies. you don't have to believe me, try reading ePrint. cryptocurrency people lead the research in
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by dystopiabreaker 5y ago
yeah, it links to a standard JSON format for my article. mirror's data is portable. the json also contains my signature which authenticates the post to my self-sovereign identity (the keypair associated with my ENS name).
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by dystopiabreaker 5y ago
all of that functionality is mediated by on-chain evm bytecode
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by dystopiabreaker 5y ago
ENS is an example of a project that is extant, working, and has a decent amount of funding (controlled democratically through a delegated token voting system). Here's my ENS record: https://app.ens.domains/name/suz
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by dystopiabreaker 5y ago
I'm pretty sure that you can pop down to the search bar and type "TLS too inefficient" and see that, in fact, they did. there was a large period of time where TLS was not widely deployed and where it was viewed as not likely
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by dystopiabreaker 5y ago
i have worked on both TLS and blockchain tech for years. my point is that the purpose of the security architecture proposed in the article is to authenticate data from the chain. this is a protocol-level detail: like TLS secures transport b
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by dystopiabreaker 5y ago
>And those who respond with indifference and denial of that reality, much like a person in your position, will have no say or power within the new system. that wasn't my point. my point is that this technology shows no sign of slowi
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by dystopiabreaker 5y ago
(and, many bitcoin wallets already do this)
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by dystopiabreaker 5y ago
there is no reason why apple or google would need to do this. Rainbow or similar apps just need to change their code in their already deployed wallet software on these platforms to do light client verification.
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by dystopiabreaker 5y ago
people said the same thing about TLS
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by dystopiabreaker 5y ago
this is like saying that TLS won't work because of moderation
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by dystopiabreaker 5y ago
for proof of stake, the cost is roughly: - download a hash-sized state root every block - download the set of validator signatures over that hash and verify each signature against the hash. if using aggregation-friendly curve, download the
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by dystopiabreaker 5y ago
yeah because then it wouldn't actually be doing anything
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by dystopiabreaker 5y ago
You're doing the thing I wrote about in the first few paragraphs of the article. By the way, the largest academic cryptography group, IACR, was founded by people who were working on cryptocurrency before they founded it.
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The Stake of the Art: On the Environmental Cost of Modern Blockchains(mirror.xyz)
1 points by dystopiabreaker 5y ago|0 comments
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by dystopiabreaker 5y ago
using a blockchain costs no energy
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by dystopiabreaker 5y ago
We should not be building our infrastructure to rely on the incidental beneficence of the oligarchy. We should build tools for decentralized permissionless economic coordination. Quadratic funding as used in Gitcoin and others is promising.
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by dystopiabreaker 5y ago
No normal users are ever going to edit a configuration file, complete with its own specific syntax, in order to install apps.
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by dystopiabreaker 5y ago
actually, it's going to make Bitcoin go to the Moon because Tether is shorting Evergrande paper! Both the above and your statement have the same level of evidence behind them. We don't know what Tether's balance sheet is, and
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by dystopiabreaker 5y ago
Sure you can. Write some code that gives students the ability to turn off the surveillance. Distribute it. Not only does this stop the surveillance, it also brings to light the issue and those who may be abusing it.
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by dystopiabreaker 5y ago
ah yes, guy who predicts the euro will fail every 2 years, and who predicted that the internet would be a fad, right again
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by dystopiabreaker 5y ago
Unfortunately, despite being a nightmare, SMB seems to be still be the best option for networked filesystems on macOS. AFP is now officially deprecated/unsupported, and the NFS client seems to be even worse than Samba/SMB. One las