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by synctext 5y ago
> That's more important than this paper. Author here. Deeply honoured that you carefully analysed our work. Yes, I agree that progress on the Sybil attack would be of high impact. We are in the process of strengthening our graph the
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by synctext 5y ago
Author here. Yes, PeerReview is the most important piece of literature for us. We use a lot of similar concepts. Difference is that we're working for the past 18 years on getting this fully working, and deployed. Science is slowly maki
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by synctext 6y ago
> Amazon's Kindle has around 61% market share on all e-Book sales. > Royalties are 70% if your book is priced at $9.99 or below, but 30% if the book is above that price. Clear market failure. Monopoly marketplace, bad for content
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by synctext 6y ago
Hopefully you still see this late reaction by IPv8/Tribler team. There is now Kotlin code, Android Trustchain app and expired IETF draft. On top of the pretentiously named IPv8 overlay, we now have tamper-proof accounting and trust fun
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by synctext 6y ago
Correct. The double spending is not solved technically, but critically relies on a functioning legal system. Every time you create Euros, you simply create a negative balance. If you offline sign multiple I Owe You contracts, you accumulate
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by synctext 6y ago
Its different mostly in the methodology and requirements. GNU Taller is developed without input by governments or existing legal frameworks. Christian Grothoff has done pioneering work for years. Its ideology driven, not government driven.
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by synctext 6y ago
Yes, you need something against tampering. However, once you legally signed something, the contract/transaction is valid. Various mechanism can be used to ensure integrity. What we implemented specifically is that various witnesses can
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by synctext 6y ago
That is the golden question. How anonymous will the upcoming digital Euro be? Politicians and European Central Bank will decide on this soon. Delft University has tested out technology which could offer equal privacy as cash money. Will thi
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by synctext 6y ago
That is a lengthy story.. We basically forked the Tor protocol and decentralised it. This makes it Bittorrent friendly, offer end-2-end crypto, and would scale to Internet-wide usage. We're planning to port our deployed Python Tor-stac
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by synctext 6y ago
Distributed ledger would be a better fit indeed. However, nobody then understands what it is. It offers tamper-proof micro-blocks, distributed validation, and leaderless governance. So this is more then idle marketing. But you're right
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by synctext 6y ago
Short answer: nobody knows yet. Its taking shape. UK minister of Digital infrastructure only some weeks ago announce their vision, far away from running code and new laws [1]. Dutch secretary-of-state on same days also send his digital ID v
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by synctext 6y ago
Currently the only route is to: request permission from a Central Bank in Eurozone, download the Gateway code, and finally issue your own coins. (we got approval from our central bank) Docs: https://github.com/Tribler/t
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by synctext 6y ago
Exactly. Using protocols to prevent double spending hurts performance and scalability. Detect fraudsters and ignoring them is cheap. This is a fundamental issue I believe. If you have a stable legal ecosystem you can use the law of the land
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by synctext 6y ago
Trustchain is a ledger which is consensus-free. Forget anything you know about chains and ledgers. By using legally valid digital signatures it is possible to sign agreements which are irrefutable. If you have two parties which sign a contr
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by synctext 6y ago
Responsible Professor here from Delft University, AMA. Note this is not a normal blockchain: its an offline-first blockchain [1]. Open source [2]. [1] https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-pouwelse-trustchain-01.html [2] ht
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Delft café premieres with EEMCS blockchain euro(delta.tudelft.nl)
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by synctext 6y ago
Details and explanation in this expired IETF Internet Draft: https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-pouwelse-trustchain-01.html
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by synctext 6y ago
Responsible Professor here. AMA. Sources: https://github.com/Tribler/trustchain-superapp
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by synctext 6y ago
Its only a private draft: "No bill related to that topic has yet been introduced in the 2021 Legislature."[1] There is a promise tracker of Gov. Steve Sisolak. [1] https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/re-i
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by synctext 6y ago
More gentle introduction to timeless concepts that stood the test of times. Material from a university master course on distributed systems engineering. We developed our own university material in .ipynb format at Github. Should give you th
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by synctext 6y ago
> Specifically, we request that you remove or disable access to the infringing Project’s repositories referenced herein in accordance with either 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)(A)(ii) (DMCA “representative list” provision), 17 U.S.C. § 512(i)(1)(
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by synctext 6y ago
This shows it is really hard to make a product in this space. Real decentralisation and zero-server architectures are hard. Also, scientific publications in this field died up, due to lack of popularity. (disclaimer, leading a team in this
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by synctext 6y ago
"Electing the Doge of Venice: Analysis of a 13th Century Protocol", https://doi.org/10.1109/CSF.2007.21 "This paper discusses the protocol used for electing the Doge of Venice between 1268 and the end of
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by synctext 6y ago
Helpful. May I suggest altering the title to reduce the click-bait or false alarm rate. Simply add at the end: " (non LGPL)"
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by synctext 6y ago
> "trustlessly replicated to other Vapor nodes" Instead of using central web servers, it is replaced with a network of Vapor nodes. I don't see this solving any problem. Just because HTTP requests have a Bitcoin signature,
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by synctext 6y ago
> Next, identity. If grandpa can post, so can the bots Yes, protection against a million fake accounts is the key scientific problem to solve (Sybil attack). Our university lab has worked on this problem for 15+ years, its hard. Early in
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by synctext 6y ago
"A Truly Self-Sovereign Identity System", our academic work with Tor-like privacy[1]. This goes beyond owning your identity. Has government sponsorship. The EU is currently taking the lead in this area, search terms: "ESSIF:
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by synctext 6y ago
> Even the most basic printed publications can include illustrations. Streaming video is probably here to stay. /s
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by synctext 6y ago
Within this context: "drain water heat recovery unit" for a Google search. Upcoming building codes within Europe might make this common I believe.
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by synctext 6y ago
See "Central Bank Digital Currency" report and details by an actual central bank in the Eurozone[1]. "Cash is no longer king" and this indeed could go mainstream. But it is far far away from self-organisations. Finance (

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