Notices by Moved (lottievixen@glitch.social), page 2

Seemingly popular opinion:
honestly I feel mastodon.social needs to close registration and redirect to https://joinmastodon.org/

filling in the cracks...

#filling #cracks #spatula #construction #workers #hardhat #animatedgif

threat 👏 modelling 👏 is 👏 the 👏 most 👏 important 👏 part 👏 of 👏 security https://twitter.com/valeriehalla/status/927880764586201088

once you imagine the blockchain as a particular implementation of a distributed ledger, you start to think about how else one might develop a distributed ledger -- without spiking energy markets or the cost of GPUs. @amphetamine linked me to an approach that used a gossip protocol that made the ledger eventually consistent, which improved latency and eliminated the energy cost of proof-of-work. it's patented so i won't link it cuz IP is bogus, but the approach was striking.

is it that we largely still have no idea what we're doing with these datastructures? that's the sense i get. i feel like, between the hype and the speculation, there's a scoping problem where we're not sure what's possible, so we don't know what that config file would look like.

experiments like faircoin are neat but it's tied to *one* co-op, which just reproduces the centralizaton problem. i want a meta-faircoin that any co-op can admin.

many coins feel like the same underlying technology but with different config files. can we get to the future where that's all it takes? casually create a coin for you and your friends, pin the value to One Food or other shared concept.

the concept of cryptocurrencies is powerful but for whatever reason we use them primarily as vehicles for speculation. it's just a ledger!

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don't do it alone. you don't have to. we'll always be stronger together.

hindsight is 20/20, learn, but don't waste the emotional output

it's easy to see where things were.

all we really ever have is the present.

we're moving into the future.