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One freaky, and completely unfounded, hypothesis is that Wright is Satoshi, and was pressured by government to have experts prove he was satoshi (for tax reasons), but is willingly playing stupid publicly and releasing a blatantly foolish post to keep his anonymity and let the world think he's not Satoshi.
Yes I know, I have a very creative mind
Yes I know, I have a very creative mind
What's interesting to me is how blatantly wrong Wright's post is. It seems like he went out of his way to make it wrong (typos in the actual code). If he was a scammer wanting to prove something, wouldn't he go out of his way to make sure there were at least no typos?
So what is his motive other than completely fucking up his reputation?
One freaky, and completely unfounded, hypothesis is that Wright is Satoshi, and was pressured by government to have experts prove he was satoshi (for tax reasons), but is willingly playing stupid publicly and releasing a blatantly foolish post to keep his anonymity and let the world think he's not Satoshi.
Yes I know, I have a very creative mind
So what is his motive other than completely fucking up his reputation?
One freaky, and completely unfounded, hypothesis is that Wright is Satoshi, and was pressured by government to have experts prove he was satoshi (for tax reasons), but is willingly playing stupid publicly and releasing a blatantly foolish post to keep his anonymity and let the world think he's not Satoshi.
Yes I know, I have a very creative mind
Kudos: A Peer-to-Peer Discussion System Based on Social Voting
Abstract
We describe a peer-to-peer discussion system that uses a blockchain for tracking users' points which are mapped to specific content, and a distributed hash table for storing/serving content. Points are minted through the mining process which achieves consensus on the chain to accept. Peers only accept transactions (aka votes) of a universal constant amount. Fees for the miners are also constant to prevent self-promotion. Users earn points either by mining or by posting relevant content that others are willing to upvote. Highest blocks in the chain contain references to the latest most relevant content, which is republished more frequently by peers to enable quicker response times. The system has the property of allowing peers to discuss openly and freely, without the fear of being blocked or banned. It also allows relevant content to stand out without the need of a central tracker or index. Peers gain reputation through the points they earn but also through the irrevocable proof of the things they said available in the blockchain.
DRAFT paper: http://lucaa.org/docs/kudos.pdf
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I've had this idea for a very long time now and finally decided that the "paper" is somewhat in a good enough shape to post on here and hopefully get some feedback. Please understand that it's still very much in DRAFT - lots of things are missing and I decided to publish it in this state because I'd like to know whether there's something fundamentally broken that I'm missing from my design before I move on in the implementation.
In essence it's an idea to rank *digital things* using a blockchain. Scarce tokens in the blockchain are used as points that people give to one-another, and each transaction contains a reference to these *digital things*. So one can calculate the relevance of specific things by simply looking up the transactions in the blockchain. It's interesting because we don't really have many ways to rank things in an entirely decentralized way.
Use cases:
* Obviously a decentralized Reddit is my main use case. Comments and posts are stored in the DHT. The blockchain would only contain the "key" (of the hash-table key-value pair). I join the network, and download latest blocks. Since each "uvpote" is essentially a transaction, I can calculate the relevance of specific DHT keys. Then once I have all the relevant keys I simply get() them from the DHT network.
* Torrent search-engines are obviously one major point-of-failure for the torrent ecosystem. Imagine having to simply look up latest blocks in a blockchain to figure out which torrents are trending at the moment from a specific sub-group.
* Proof of what anybody said. Imagine having a lengthy discussion with someone and wanting to prove this discussion took place. Since all the records are kept in the blockchain you can not only prove someone's reputation, but also that they said something in a specific moment in time.
Well that's it for now. Let me know what you think!
We describe a peer-to-peer discussion system that uses a blockchain for tracking users' points which are mapped to specific content, and a distributed hash table for storing/serving content. Points are minted through the mining process which achieves consensus on the chain to accept. Peers only accept transactions (aka votes) of a universal constant amount. Fees for the miners are also constant to prevent self-promotion. Users earn points either by mining or by posting relevant content that others are willing to upvote. Highest blocks in the chain contain references to the latest most relevant content, which is republished more frequently by peers to enable quicker response times. The system has the property of allowing peers to discuss openly and freely, without the fear of being blocked or banned. It also allows relevant content to stand out without the need of a central tracker or index. Peers gain reputation through the points they earn but also through the irrevocable proof of the things they said available in the blockchain.
DRAFT paper: http://lucaa.org/docs/kudos.pdf
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I've had this idea for a very long time now and finally decided that the "paper" is somewhat in a good enough shape to post on here and hopefully get some feedback. Please understand that it's still very much in DRAFT - lots of things are missing and I decided to publish it in this state because I'd like to know whether there's something fundamentally broken that I'm missing from my design before I move on in the implementation.
In essence it's an idea to rank *digital things* using a blockchain. Scarce tokens in the blockchain are used as points that people give to one-another, and each transaction contains a reference to these *digital things*. So one can calculate the relevance of specific things by simply looking up the transactions in the blockchain. It's interesting because we don't really have many ways to rank things in an entirely decentralized way.
Use cases:
* Obviously a decentralized Reddit is my main use case. Comments and posts are stored in the DHT. The blockchain would only contain the "key" (of the hash-table key-value pair). I join the network, and download latest blocks. Since each "uvpote" is essentially a transaction, I can calculate the relevance of specific DHT keys. Then once I have all the relevant keys I simply get() them from the DHT network.
* Torrent search-engines are obviously one major point-of-failure for the torrent ecosystem. Imagine having to simply look up latest blocks in a blockchain to figure out which torrents are trending at the moment from a specific sub-group.
* Proof of what anybody said. Imagine having a lengthy discussion with someone and wanting to prove this discussion took place. Since all the records are kept in the blockchain you can not only prove someone's reputation, but also that they said something in a specific moment in time.
Well that's it for now. Let me know what you think!
Meetup stasera alle 19:00 a Via Palestro 40, Roma, RM
http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Generation-Roma/events/222783405/
http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Generation-Roma/events/222783405/
Aggiornato anche su Meetup
http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Generation-Roma/events/219277324/
Grazie per la collaborazione!
grazie Fra! Si addice bene il logo no?http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Generation-Roma/events/219277324/
Grazie per la collaborazione!
Re: [MEETING] Roma - settimanale ★★ogni giovedì alle 18.45 BeerTime★★
Ciao Francesco. Senti, io e Guido stavamo pensando di rimuovere gli eventi automatici su meetup.com. Nessuno sta più andando al Beer time e continuano ad esserci meeting in programma. Se qualcuno ci va e non c'è nessuno mi sembra una cosa veramente poco professionale. Direi dunque di toglierli a meno che non siamo sicuri che ci sia qualcuno. Inoltre l'immagine. Non sarà più un evento "solo BeerTime" quindi avere BeerTime e la via nel logo del meetup è misleading.
A mio parere bisognerebbe anche rimuovere dal titolo "ogni settimana" ed il luogo da questo thread. Non sara' sempre beer time. Nel soggetto di questo thread basta mettere "Meetup Roma". Il dove, chi e quando si deciderà quando ci sarà il meeting.
A mio parere bisognerebbe anche rimuovere dal titolo "ogni settimana" ed il luogo da questo thread. Non sara' sempre beer time. Nel soggetto di questo thread basta mettere "Meetup Roma". Il dove, chi e quando si deciderà quando ci sarà il meeting.
This makes me wonder whether the "I am not Dorian Nakamoto" message left on p2pfoundation is also a fake. It did seem weird back then that instead of signing a message using his well known public key, he decided to use a p2p forum to announce the fact.
Re: [MEETING] Roma - settimanale ★★ogni giovedì alle 18.45 BeerTime★★
Cosa ne pensate di trasformare l'evento BeerTime (Bitcoin Generation Roma) in un evento mensile, ogni primo giovedì del mese ad esempio, presso enLabs (o altri che offrono la disponibilità)?
Simile a quello che si era organizzato a Working Capital ogni lunedì (si potrebbe continuare a fare di lunedì invece che giovedì). Con la differenza che dovrebbe essere più strutturato: con una pagina dedicata ed una mailing list.
Pensavo a questo:
1. Usare http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Generation-Roma/ come pagina principale del gruppo visto che Francesco lo usa già ed è già ben pubblicizzata (anche il nome è carino dai)
2. Cambiare la cadenza della giorno al primo/ultimo lunedì/giovedì di ogni mese (in base agli accordi che possiamo fare con enLabs)
3. Cambiare luogo d'incontro ad enLabs (stazione Termini facilmente raggiungibile da chiunque).
4. Orario d'inizio: 19:00
La struttura sarebbe molto semplice con 2 o 3 mini-presentazione da chiunque volesse dire qualcosa a riguardo di Bitcoin; domande e risposta; discussioni; cena informale etc etc. Già facciamo lo stesso presso RomaJS (http://romajs.org) e siamo sempre tantissimi e s'impara sempre qualcosa di nuovo, quindi la stessa struttura per Bitcoin secondo me sarebbe molto interessante.
Fatemi sapere cosa ne pensate.
Luca
Simile a quello che si era organizzato a Working Capital ogni lunedì (si potrebbe continuare a fare di lunedì invece che giovedì). Con la differenza che dovrebbe essere più strutturato: con una pagina dedicata ed una mailing list.
Pensavo a questo:
1. Usare http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Generation-Roma/ come pagina principale del gruppo visto che Francesco lo usa già ed è già ben pubblicizzata (anche il nome è carino dai)
2. Cambiare la cadenza della giorno al primo/ultimo lunedì/giovedì di ogni mese (in base agli accordi che possiamo fare con enLabs)
3. Cambiare luogo d'incontro ad enLabs (stazione Termini facilmente raggiungibile da chiunque).
4. Orario d'inizio: 19:00
La struttura sarebbe molto semplice con 2 o 3 mini-presentazione da chiunque volesse dire qualcosa a riguardo di Bitcoin; domande e risposta; discussioni; cena informale etc etc. Già facciamo lo stesso presso RomaJS (http://romajs.org) e siamo sempre tantissimi e s'impara sempre qualcosa di nuovo, quindi la stessa struttura per Bitcoin secondo me sarebbe molto interessante.
Fatemi sapere cosa ne pensate.
Luca
LOL
mentalmente ce l ho. La sogno tuttw le notti quindi passo circa 7 ore al giorno con lei.
ma lei sa che è la tua ragazza?