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by mattdesl 4y ago
I was imagining this for protocols like zkSNARK and similar, which do not have interactive challenges.
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by mattdesl 4y ago
I don’t have much to add except to say this was enlightening and great to read. My first thought is whether this could be used with ZKP at some point: one pitfall of ZKP is that you can copy a proof to other people and they could potentiall
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by mattdesl 4y ago
It always comes down to trust models, (de)centralization, and whether it’s permissioned or permissionless. For example multisigs, without crypto, require a trusted and centralized custodian, and if you are lucky you might get a permissioned
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by mattdesl 4y ago
A crypto currency like ETH acts as the gas that secures the network and all the above use cases. A program (smart contract) can itself also become a token and currency: USDC and CryptoPunk NFTs are just different software programs running o
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by mattdesl 4y ago
> level 2 networks haven't lived up to their initial hype Have you tried any recent ones? zkSync, Optimism, Aztec. Although they are still a work in progress; see EIP 4844 and zkEVM. Check back in a year or two if you want to avoid
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by mattdesl 4y ago
- preventing double spend in a distributed ledger - creating a secure timestamped append only log of signed messages - apps like multisig wallets, privacy preserving rollups, cross-site attestations - creating a global namespace registry fo
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by mattdesl 4y ago
A frustrating thing to see coming from Apple, who originally had us so excited about open web protocols (death of Flash etc) but now aims to lock users into the walled garden at any opportunity. Apple sees they cannot extract their 30% cut
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by mattdesl 4y ago
> That’s my gripe, man - when you login to a site with your Ethereum wallet instead of the Github login button, why? Because it’s easier? As if. I do this on sites that support it. Spinning up a burner wallet for a site is easier than sp
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by mattdesl 4y ago
Thanks for the writeup. It’s an interesting protocol, but I’m not sure account mobility and portability is quite as you paint it in your post. The main problem is that, like email and mastodon, most users will sign up through a service, rat
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by mattdesl 4y ago
Instance diversity in Mastodon is that ~2M users or 70% of the network chooses one of 5 main servers. If your account is @foo@service.com and service.com goes in an undesirable direction (it shuts down, or is bought out by a billionaire, or
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by mattdesl 4y ago
Great to see some more concrete ideas beginning to come out of this team! My main concern with the protocol design is in the identity, and how it lends itself to centralized name services (@alice.google.com). The end result seems like it wi
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by mattdesl 4y ago
Why does every new idea need to work within the constraints of ActivityPub and W3C? Their spec is fundamentally different than ActivityPub.
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by mattdesl 4y ago
If a network can successfully detect a fake, then it will be incorporated into GANs to produce images that are no longer detectable as fake by the discriminator. This is the whole basis for generative adversarial neural networks.
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by mattdesl 4y ago
Hey Paul & Taylor, congrats on the launch! Can this be used, for example, to create a collaborative whiteboard app? I am trying to understand the use cases. Does it depend on Docker and Guacamole? Guacamole was mentioned in passing in y
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by mattdesl 4y ago
You might be misunderstanding E2EE. In double ratchet system, not even the operator or host can decrypt DMs. Fully homomorphic encryption is also possible to operate _on encrypted data_ albeit computationally impractical still for a couple
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by mattdesl 4y ago
I don’t believe it will feel like this. “Buying an NFT” will be more like “paying for a service.” You visit a Farcaster client, and click the buy account name/domain button, it triggers a stripe payment, and then you are given a privat
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by mattdesl 4y ago
Account migration is a redirect. Your posts do not carry over, and the experience is pretty clunky.[1] Your name alias is tied to the server you created it on, rather than tied to your identity and all that it carries (posts, data, network
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by mattdesl 4y ago
That's sad to hear, but it makes total sense to shut down the server given its sensitive data, rather than hand it off to another person. Mastodon/ActivityPub is a poor fit for a social network IMHO. - Accounts should not be tied
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Using ZK Proofs to Fight Disinformation in Digital Photography(medium.com)
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by mattdesl 4y ago
Most crypto projects and blockchains aside from Bitcoin and Ethereum are already using proof of stake for consensus. But otherwise I agree, it will give more confidence in PoS to see it securing Ethereum.
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by mattdesl 4y ago
It’s likely.
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by mattdesl 4y ago
Most things in society start out simple and grow more complex as we add more speed, security, applications, and so on. See also: medicine, science, flight, computers, the internet. Bitcoin is a very simple system and very limited in its cap
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by mattdesl 4y ago
There are many parts to Ethereum and it’s PoS system so I don’t think you will be able to grasp it all in a short read. This is a good start: https://eth2.incessant.ink/book/00__introduction/00__forewor...
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by mattdesl 4y ago
The development is in the open, happening through PRs on GitHub and across several independent client teams. You can join the R&D discord (I’m there as a casual observer) and watch or engage in technical discussions. You can propose EIP
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by mattdesl 4y ago
The game developer can decide how to monetize. They can charge $0 or $1 or $50 for the game itself, and take 0% or 5% or 25% from each transaction in the UGC marketplace. An "Ethereum Rollup" is just a "fast blockchain"
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by mattdesl 4y ago
The game developers can charge for the upfront cost of purchasing the game and starting an account. They can also charge a take-rate for each transaction in their official marketplace (this is how OpenSea makes money, and it's also how
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by mattdesl 4y ago
I am not suggesting Disney or Microsoft will want anything other than maximum control over their own intellectual property and their user’s assets. From the article: > This is unlikely to ever feature in Minecraft, but may used by experi
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by mattdesl 4y ago
Intermediaries like Apple are not the ones building and interested in this, it is the game developers like those currently building Dark Forest and their players. This should not run on ETH mainnet, it should run on a L2 rollup that allows
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by mattdesl 4y ago
> to make this work, you need to introduce some trusted party, and then if you're going to trust them anyway you might as well have just had them run a database. Having some elements of centralization does not negate some of the ben
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by mattdesl 4y ago
I don’t put much stock into play to earn and current VC funded blockchain games. There’s two areas of blockchain gaming I think are interesting to explore: 1. Decentralized games like Dark Forest that allow a game developer to set rules in

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