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What time did it show on TV?
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It is not just decentralized ebay.
It is also replacing conventional hiring and freelancing sites.
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Neat  |
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Thanks, was nice to read  |
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Anonymous and verifiable voting systems
A little bit of a contradiction here. How would you know what one identity, one person is, without an authority like a registration office? or better put, how would you prevent a person from voting twice or multiple times? (let's call this the double-voting problem) though it indeed is an interesting philosophical question what an identity is. if I'm a programmer at day and a rockstar at night, do i have two identities? I think that if you could vote anonymously and online, being able to verify and audit the votes, it would be quite perfect even if you still had to use a central authority for registration. Decentralized identity and reputation systems are quite difficult to achieve but people are working hard on that, for sure. Still I think we overestimate the importance of secrecy in voting. And we should be preparing good platforms for when the time comes that we have the perfect voting systems. |
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Interesting. Thanks for sharing. |
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How could this be possible? Wouldn't the bitcoin debs have to develop contracts like the etherize project? I don't get how today we can combine votes using bitcoin... Please explain more
Promojo: search for voting systems based on bitcoin. Not necessaily with Ethereum. I think we should start with something humble and far from perfect. Two factor aurhentication with mobile number could help a bit with single vote, I think. Also, I keep thinking we should use facebook. Like it or not, it is the best Id/Login system for this purpose. Till we have sonething better with the help of Govs we should definitely use Facebook for this project, I think. |
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I think we should start with something very simple, like a website just llike reddit but instead of posts and links people would submit polls/questions that everyone could vote on.
You could upvote or downvote any poll and set for how many days you think the poll should run.
Each poll would run for the average of days set.
People could discuss just like on reddit.
Later we could make it more sophisticate with ways of avoiding too much repetition with hashtags and circles of people that would get voting and moderating powers delegated to them.
I can help with testing. I can read code like php, mysql, css and stuff.
Do you like my idea of a reddit of polls?
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You cannot actually present someone with a bitcoin or a fraction of it because bitcoins only exist in the blockchain cloud, as a result of the outcomes of previous unspent transactions.
You can only present someone with a private key and corresponding address.
Bitcoins don't exist. They are just balances associated with a bitcoin address in a public ledger.
Still you can teach them to use bitaddress.org for them to create their own paper wallet that only they control and send them your coins with a vanity address.
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Anonymous and verifiable voting systems based on bitcoin will soon be a reality, certainly. Still that will not bring about Democracy 2.0, straight a way. My challenge is simple, why not start with a Beta version of it where all votes are public and identified? Having a plataform where people can discuss and vote all sorts of matters in a liquid democracy fashion, making the results widely known to everyone seems to me actually particularly vital for bringing about a democracy whereby citizens decide or delegate decisions directly. In a time where more than ever a few oligarchs control the destinies of everyone it seems utterly important that we are able to give back voice and power to the people. Maybe we could start with a website that uses facebook as login to identify the individuals and later move on to more anonymous systems with voting based on blockchain technology. What do you thing? This could become as huge as wikipedia and eventually show them why they should accept bitcoins... |
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It looks a bit like a Ponzi Scheme, as early adopters have an incentive to make bitcoin more poplular and more adopted for their own sake.
But most definitely it isn't. Bitcoins are sound money and have all proprities of such, namely:
Divisibility
A currency must be divisible so that units of its value can be paid to match the value of your purchase.
Portability
For a currency to be convenient, it must be portable. You must be able to have access to it at any moment to spend it and you must be able to receive it just as easily.
Scarcity
Money has to be sufficiently rare. If the medium of the currency is easily obtainable or reproducable, it will have little worth and be easily counterfeited.
Fungible
Every unit of a currency must be equal in value. Diamonds are not fungible because there are other properties of a diamond that makes it worth more or less than any other diamond: size, clarity, cut, purity, etc.
Durability
Money must not have a property that allows it to decay over time. Any perishable items are a good example of this: Vegatables, Spices, Tea, Milk, etc.
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Non-consumable.
The value of bitcoin is completly ruled by the market and basic law of supply and demand. The value of bitcoin is not determined by how much people think they are worth, it is determined my market forces, in the same sense that one kilogram of gold or one liter of water has the value that the market determines and not the value that people, individually, think they are worth.
But, of course, people are always free to sell them or not, for any price they want, driving the market forces.
Bitcoin is great because it is the separation of Money and State, and the end of fractional reserve banking.
It is fascinating and has a great future! So much potential to change the world...
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The best technical book about bitcoin I have read so far is:
Bitcoin Internals: A Technical Guide to Bitcoin by Chris Clark
It is a pity it doesn't have a section on Elliptic Curves...
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I would: make all coins of an address that has not been used for 10 years be moved to a void address.
This would force everyone to move their coins to a new address once that time limit was about to be reached, and so we would always know how many coins are "alive".
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The last word in Satoshi's paper is "mechanism". In the forum his last word was "chain". This makes me think that Satoshi has some fascination for perpetual movement. He may have studied Physics and Classical Mechanics. Note that his last reference in the paper is a very old book. Possibly one that he found in a library in the 60's when he was graduating.  #Sun #Moon #Gold #Water #Coin |
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