Title: "To: bitcoin forums" - Subverting the First Realm (Our World Today) Post by: BitcoinPorn on October 16, 2011, 03:33:44 AM I cannot copy and paste this whole text, as it is a lot of reading, but highly interesting at the very least. Written by the man Plato who traveled the US with Bitcoin (http://www.archive.org/details/InterviewTheRealPlato)
The full text can be found here, http://codepad.org/k0gRMK5W below is some of the intro to brief on that and then Bitcoin related parts. I suggest checking out the full thing, I have drank no cool aid nor do I deny new ideas, just read it and found it interesting with Bitcoin as a part of it. Quote This is a manual for subversives. It explains how we can build a context to work and play in as we subvert the First Realm and replace it with the Second Realm. The First Realm is our world today. It is a world of borders and boundaries, of rules and regulations - a world ruled by authority. The Second Realm is the world that will replace it. This is our chance to turn the Powers That Be into the Powers That Were - it's up to us to make sure that we build a utopia instead of a dystopia. Subverse is the context for subversion. It is a place for teaching and learning, a place for trading, and a place to take action. Quote svs.toc svs.00 Plato's Introduction svs.00.1 Thoughts on authority svs.00.2 Why we need Subverse svs.00.3 What needs to happen now svs.01 Prereqs svs.01.1 Crypto and PGP/gpg svs.01.2 Bitcoin svs.01.3 Blockchains svs.01.4 Trust Networks svs.02 The Subverse svs.02.1 Architecture svs.02.2 Global Web of Trust svs.02.3 Semantic web markup language svs.03 Subvert.me svs.03.1 Agorist marketplace svs.03.2 Subversive wiki svs.03.3 Local community blockchains svs.03.4 Trust based social media svs.03.5 Games Room svs.04 How You Can Help svs.04.1 Be a part of the Bitcoin Cabal! svs.04.2 Donate Bitcoins svs.04.3 Spread the word svs.04.4 Join us on IRC svs.04.5 Let's make TEDxSubverse svs.04.6 Help get Plato an apartment svs.05 Coding Projects Quote svs.01.2 Bitcoin Bitcoin is internet cash. Anyone can send and receive bitcoins without registering or giving up any personal information. Transactions clear within minutes, and are permanent. There is a fee structure to reward users who maintain the network but (as of 7/2011) these fees are negligible. The network is totally decentralized; many users cooperatively maintain the Bitcoin blockchain to keep everyone honest. It's difficult or impossible to cheat the network without possessing 51% of the processing power of the network. This is already quite a task; Bitcoin is the largest distributed computing project to date. svs.01.3 Blockchains Bitcoin uses a "blockchain" model to store transaction records. Everyone has a copy of this blockchain - it's basically a distributed database, containing a single chain of plaintext "blocks". These blocks contain transaction data for the time period when the block was generated. Each block includes a hash of the previous block inside itself, to prove that the block is part of the same chain and was generated at a later time. The blocks include a solution to a proof-of-work problem, so users can't submit fake blocks at their whim. svs.01.4 Trust Networks Using GPG, it's possible to build a network of pseudonymous users who trust each other without ever meeting face to face. #bitcoin-otc on Freenode (www.bitcoin-otc.com) has an implementation by nanotube. Users rate each other after transactions, and the data is publically available for other users to see. As more trades happen and more users participate, the trust information becomes more reliable. |