RT @rusty_twit: #bitcoin-lightning FAQ: Why the 0.042 bitcoin limit? https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/bitcoin-lightning-faq-why-the-0-042-bitcoin-limit-2eb48b703f3#.32dajoqiw
RT @adam3us: “act professionally, call out those you expect better from, and hope to god it rubs off :/” -@TheBlueMatt
RT @laparisa: Enjoyed @zeynep’s candid perspective on the behaviors of many activists & how our infosec tech tribe isn’t meeting their need…
👍@DanielSolove essay against “I have nothing to hide” https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565 Related to my tl:dr 4 Kinds of Privacy http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2015/04/the-four-kinds-of-privacy.html
RT @SatoshiLite: BU needs off-chain coordination. “In fact, this is the Byzantine Generals’ Problem. That is exactly [what] Satoshi attempt…
RT @Excellion: “No altcoin relies on similar assumptions, nor is there even a testnet with BUIP001 configs actively used.” Just can’t take…
RT @cheapsuits: Im telling you. Violence begets violence. Your masked face means little opposite a gun #FreeSpeech #miloatcal https://t.co/…
RT @jonasschnelli: Short answer why C++ is a good choice for Bitcoin-Core and other blockchain applications; by @JoelKatz: https://t.co/M…
I gave her that hat, it was a promo item from Scaling Bitcoin. We don’t agree on everything but we agree on more. 👍free speech 👎 violence. https://twitter.com/abc7newsbayarea/status/827039436596670464
Useful word from Okanagan tribe in BC: “En’owkan — Please give me the viewpoint most opposite of mine so I can increase my wisdom.”
RT @bitcoineconomy: “Make Bitcoin Great Again” Girl Pepper Sprayed in the Face During Berkeley Protests https://themerkle.com/bitcoin-supporter-pepper-sprayed-in-the-face-during-berkeley-protests/ #bitcoin #U…
RT @RubinReport: via @AngeTheDude and his cousin @kiarafrobles on my Facebook page. https://t.co/BUd7LocEL2
RT @TuurDemeester: 1/ Bitcoin miners do in the economy what mushrooms do in nature: unlocking hard to access energy sources.
RT @TuurDemeester: I just published “My 6 takeaways from Satoshi Roundtable” https://medium.com/p/my-6-takeaways-from-satoshi-roundtable-2e46680f0cf2
RT @lopp: @zooko You can find my thoughts on it here: https://blog.bitgo.com/statoshis-satoshi-roundtable-review-66054990075f#.xiz4trfjg
RT @JeremyRubin: 100 new Bitcoin developers being “brought up” in Tokyo at Digital Garage.
My long-time colleague @kallewoof is part of the Digital Garage blockchain team. It will be great to collaborate with him again! https://twitter.com/blockstream/status/827609049688535040
Today I’m at the #UpgradeDemocracy unconference at the Institute of the Future offices in Palo Alto—we can improve our collective decisions!
“Facts are notes; Stories are the song…” from @pwang’s Story of Stories (Orientation, Part 3) https://medium.com/@pwang/story-of-stories-orientation-part-3-9c42247a0083?source=twitterShare-63ba9be92e8f-1486235435
RT @benwerd: “Facts are notes; Ideas are chords; Stories are the song.” - @pwang
I love this so much.
“We must rebel against our evolutionary objectives, w/o giving an evolutionary advantage to those who refuse to do the same.”—Bret Weinstein
Good tweetstorm by @SatoshiLite on the topic of evaluating cryptocurrencies & altcoins… https://twitter.com/satoshilite/status/827273443112427523
“invisible architectures…if we are unaware of our own assumptions, we may simply re-create them in digital form” https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2016/blob/master/final-documents/WisdomEmbedding-Human-Wisdom-in-Our-Digital-Tomorrow.pdf
“We are experiencing today a cognitive/social/attention denial-of-service attack”— @EricRWeinstein at #UpgradeDemocracy Unconference
A 21st Century problem: our culture & education taught us in Occam’s Razor that simple is often right—today we need to be more skeptical.
Among others at the #UpdateDemocracy Unconference today, @Johannes_Ernst is worried how bad this crisis in our world systems might be:
RT @profjasonpotts: New paper in Org Studies on coproduction of community in #coworking spaces. @jwaterslynch @urbanizationist https://t.co…
Just at ScotChain last fall—I think it is plausible for a metro area (Glasgow or Edinburgh) or Scotland itself to issue a local currency. https://twitter.com/brianforde/status/828222003144441856
RT @bitcoinmom: Fellow bitcoin users, retweet if you are with me on this vote:
ACTIVATE #SEGWIT
Replying to @BlockstackOrg
Advice: the order of this playlist seems totally off. Install should be 1st (which I can’t find) rest in some logical order.
Replying to @sepa4corporates and @ssawhney87
you’ll need to ask @coindesk
I’ve found quite charming this dialogue between Harry Potter & Hermione on the topic of money & cryptocurrencies: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/08/05/harry-potter-and-the-cryptocurrency-of-stars/
RT @alistairmilne: My ‘Capitalist View on a Bitcoin Hard Fork’: https://alistairmilne.com/2017/02/07/capitalist-view-on-a-bitcoin-hard-fork/
RT @Chris_Stewart_5: @adam3us @TuurDemeester More troubling is contentious hard forks are political, once a contentious hard fork succeeds,…
RT @okTurtles: New Post: #CONIKS vs #KeyTransparency vs #CertificateTransparency vs #Blockchains
https://blog.okturtles.com/2017/02/coniks-vs-key-transparency-vs-certificate-transparency-vs-blockchains/ https://t.co/rrguc…
How “newness” emerges & spreads is quite important. It connects to everything from innovation, memes, evolution, and even income inequality. https://twitter.com/lilious/status/829410376206974986
Replying to @sammantic
I can’t tell — are they going to try to create yet another alt-coin?
@refindcom Can anyone invite me to Refind? https://refind.com/
I’ve not thought about http error 402 “payment required” since my last microcurrency startup >10 years. @rusty_twit? re: @Chris_Stewart_5
I too am frustrated that Twitter doesn’t let you turn off SMS two-factor auth when you you enable a better auth—instead it disables both. https://twitter.com/jzdziarski/status/829791718337830912
Replying to @profjasonpotts
link?
RT @mydiacc: “The notion of combining digital ID with street ID is quickly becoming a reality.” thoughts from @idgorilla https://t.co/VRZ6F…
RT @NickSzabo4: New blog post! Social scalability: how Bitcoin enables people anywhere to use a more secure currency.
https://t.co/rsyVja6A…
Replying to @Ethan_Heilman
as the host of a 300K+ community for 16+ years, you MUST have moderation for it to survive. It isn’t censorship to moderate.
Replying to @lopp and @NickSzabo4
a better link to my Dunbar series of posts is http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/tags/community-by-the-numbers/
Looking forward to multi-asset Bitcoin sidechains being experimented on this year—there are just too many good ideas w/ bad p&d alt-coins.
Replying to @lykle
there are a few startups that are working on this—it is an obvious next step. My own company @Blockstream is one. Still work to do.
Many problems yet to be solved in sidechains—they can be federated, but merged mining an open question. @Truthcoin has some new ideas.
As an experiment I’d love to be able to issue a @ChristopherA future workday debt token on a sidechain & let it be auctioned against Bitcoin
Replying to @C1aranMurray
Yes, maybe—but combined with confidential transactions & self-sovereign identity my clients could have true confidentiality.
Replying to @sammantic
I don’t think it is a great idea, but an interesting experiment. Mostly I want no more pump & dump alt-coins, app-tokens, etc.
Replying to @sammantic
part of the value of that experiment is a debt token and that someday it may be worthless.
Replying to @C1aranMurray
True — I’d like to enable those experiments as well. Plus maybe a Payments Channel like Lightning but to a distributed DB.
Replying to @C1aranMurray
My paper (with others) on Smart Signatures may help cross chasm to DBs: https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/ID2020DesignWorkshop/blob/master/final-documents/smarter-signatures.pdf
Replying to @lightcoin
I just don’t want to see these experiments cause mixed incentives or pollute on the main chain. Sidechains keep it separate.
Replying to @lightcoin
If we can get @Truthcoin’s blind merged-mining to work, we can even more safely test new scaling options w/o risking main chain.
Many of the challenges of sidechains that we need answers for are not just crypto—there is game theory, behavioral economics, networks, etc.
I presume that all non-conservative sidechains will be flawed at first—so we have to design for recovery & resilience & not break main chain
Replying to @C1aranMurray
but portable (bearer?) trusted objects are difficult to move or prove. Say move my self-sovereign id from Bitcoin to Ethereum.
RT @lopp: “Blockchains don’t guarantee truth; they just preserve truth and lies from later alteration, allowing one to later securely analy…
Replying to @TuurDemeester
It is technically feasible to lock coins until exchange is fairly completed, minimizing risk—but consumers don’t demand it.
RT @davidmanheim: Real life is interdisciplinary.
As true in applied #crypto, #blockchain, and computer science as anywhere else.
https://t…
Replying to @lykle and @Blockstream
See section 5D of our String Federations whitepaper https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.05491v2.pdf
From BAMPFA exhibit “Hippie Modernism” from 1973. Not as much has evolved since as you might think. http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/program/hippie-modernism-struggle-utopia
Closeup of previous 1973 poster “The Minimal Design Team” from BAMPFA exhibit “Hippie Modernism”
RT @aantonop: Another great explainer by @AaronvanW, this time about Tumblebit:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/better-bitcoin-privacy-scalability-developers-are-making-tumblebit-reality/Keep up the great work Aaron!
RT @TheBlueMatt: I’ll be talking in:
Amsterdam on Sunday,
Berlin on Tuesday,
Zurich on Wednesday,
Munich on Thursday.Come out and say hi!
Cautionary tale on civic hacking. It is hard—look to past before being sure your “new” solution hasn’t failed before https://medium.com/@joshuatauberer/so-you-want-to-reform-democracy-7f3b1ef10597
Some important economic questions. Many will answer through a personal political lens, but answers aren’t that easy. http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost-disease/
RT @Truthcoin: Interview where I share some of my (more-unique) thoughts on Sidechains, Liquid, and SegWit delay. https://twitter.com/jamieCrypto/status/831881226009055232
I agree—often I & my colleagues fall into “perfection is the enemy of the good” where good should be that people can actually use our tools. https://twitter.com/sarahjamielewis/status/831916114779136002
I’ve shared my awe of the quality of the movie Arrival. Here is a video (warning:spoilers) that explains some of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z18LY6NME1s
I’ve been expressing concerns about the #privacy of India’s aadhaar ID system for some time, at industry events & UN http://mashable.com/2017/02/14/india-aadhaar-uidai-privacy-security-debate/
RT @juanbenet: @ChrisLundkvist key mgmt much bigger than blockchain uses. I think it’s a Personal Computing and even Human Rights type of p…
RT @VitalikButerin: 20. Projects really should make sure they have good answers for “why use a blockchain”
Replying to @prezcannady
There are a number of other southeast Asian countries that are looking to emulate the Indian aardhaar system—they can do better
Replying to @bajshagirl and @zeynep
This is one of the best articles on the topic http://passcode.csmonitor.com/cypherpunk
Replying to @bajshagirl and @zeynep
that article stops pre-ssl — now over 50% of all internet is secured by it.
Replying to @NECSI
From “Community by the Numbers” series “Power Laws” http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2009/03/power-laws.html
Next #RebootingWebOfTrust Design Workshop will be on April 19th-21st in Paris at Microsoft’s offices. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-rebooting-web-of-trust-paris-32228513351
RT @Firuzehmahmoudi: “Human rights are not something you have to apply for. They simply exist – for everybody.” The directors of best forei…
RT @TheBlueMatt: On Bitcoin’s Diversity of Use-Cases and its trustless properties, and what this means for changes to it https://t.co/W6fBx…