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2017-03-28 03:38
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iang
eos
2017-06-13 08:55
The May Scale - how hard is gold, cash, Bitcoin...
As people rush to use their credit cards to buy bitcoin and then to transfer bitcoin to Ethereum and then to buy into the latest whizzbang must have ICO ... they hit barriers. What are these barriers?
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eos
2017-06-09 10:26
What do I need to study in order to Fully Master Bitcoin (™)
Building on from the previous post on how complex the space of financial cryptography is, this is an informal list of the many disciplines you might need to grok so as to be able to master the Bitcoin
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iang
eos
2017-06-06 17:47
The limits of knowledge - why we don't know enough about blockchain
@jonno-katz asks why Andreas A doesn't have a reasonable opinion DPOS, which on the surface is a very reasonable question. AA is an expert on consensus, so alternates should be on the table, right? He
iang
eos
2017-05-29 17:18
Seeking Consensus on Consensus - DPOS or Delegated Proof of Stake and the Two Generals' Problem
Laying down the rails for a high performance financial blockchain-based ecosystem is well understood if controversial because there are a number of approaches - centralised, decentralised, un-permissioned,
iang
eos
2017-05-13 19:19
The Message is the Medium
A Preliminary Message This post introduces what I think is a fundamental flaw in almost all blockchain designs. In brief, it is the emphasis on state as the ‘atomic element’, when we could also build using
iang
introduceyourself
2017-05-11 19:25
I am iang
Hi there, World of Steem, it was pointed out by @dantheman that the Identity sometimes known as Iang was opaque and mysterious to the Steemisters. Yes, and Iang likes it that way! But only a little googling
iang
eos
2017-05-05 02:21
Principled Blockchain Governance Requirement #7 - Community exercises their Democratic voice to set rules
BUT! We’re still not there because any two poles governance system as described in Principles #6 and before eventually collapses. That’s because the poles eventually form a pattern where they are equal
iang
eos
2017-05-05 02:16
Principled Blockchain Governance Requirement #6 - Arms of Governance are Independent
If you saw Principle #5 - Consensors are Enforcers, you'd realise, we’re not out of the troll woods yet. Now, we have two powerful bodies. In competition. Looking for trouble... Believe me. What happens
iang
eos
2017-05-05 02:10
Principled Blockchain Governance Requirement #5 - Consensors are Enforcers
Now, assuming I get my ruling from Principle #4 - Arbitration, and it says “off with the Troll’s head” I have another issue - how do I get it enforced? We all like a good Troll beheading, but who’s actually
iang
eos
2017-05-05 02:04
Principled Blockchain Governance Requirement #4 - Arbitration
Where we left off was Principle #3 - Constitution! which sets the scene. But, this only gets us to the point of writing out our position in rules. So I’m going to propose the Constitution for this blog
iang
eos
2017-05-05 01:56
Principled Blockchain Governance Requirement #3 - Constitution!
The previous requirement #2, Toxics not welcome! left us with a dilemma. We want a community in which we can all deal with each other in a positive fashion, but we know from bitter experience that total
iang
eos
2017-05-05 01:50
Principled Blockchain Governance Requirement #2 - Toxics not Welcome!
So open entry it is, if we're to start from a principled position of blockchain governance. But, from that principled position of utter fairness, we hit a problem almost immediately: If we let anyone play
iang
eos
2017-05-05 01:41
Principled Blockchain Governance Requirement #1 - Open Entry
For the rest of the world, if you're still reading from On a Principled Approach to Blockchain Governance - 7 Requirements - the big question then is how we design a governance layer for a blockchain!
iang
eos
2017-05-05 01:35
On a Principled Approach to Blockchain Governance - 7 Requirements
One of the things that I learnt in the CAcert adventure was that governance was critical to the safe operation of large communities. How large is large ... is a question of much debate, but to put it bluntly,
iang
identity
2017-04-18 17:52
Identity as an Edge Protocol
Over on R3's blog they have published a piece of mine called Identity is an Edge Protocol from which I steal this snippet: "Identity is an edge protocol, and not a nodal protocol. What is valuable
iang
computerscience
2017-04-10 16:00
On how to make something rare happen reliably - the Navy-NSA gets a B+ but has more to learn
What happens when some rare emergency flairs up? In principle, we should follow the "rare emergency" procedure. For poignant example, when a US Navy Orion P3 spy plane was captured by the Chinese
iang
shell
2017-03-28 14:30
Research Idea - rethink the shell, SSH and privilege separation
It occurs to me that the time is ripe for a wholesale rethink of the system constructed from terminal-window-SSH-shell-computer. Loosely called shell or SSH but actually a different beast. Back in the
iang
governance
2017-03-28 03:48
Elinor Ostrom's 8 Principles for Managing A Commmons
(Originally published at ) Elinor Ostrom shared the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009 for her lifetime of scholarly work investigating how communities succeed or fail at managing common pool (finite) resources
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