Saying that beaker browser is too complex in a conversation where adding a novel implementation of a blockchain is being discussed is a bit odd. Beaker browser is beta software that would let us create a distributed federated network, blockchains are a vague and poorly defined technology. More often than not the technology used to support the blockchain is what people mean when they talk about them.
The distributed censorship resistant social media already exists in the federated social network (Mastodon is the most famous way to access it, but it has been around for over a decade). A distributed method of connecting nodes together without a central authority exists in the form of distributed hash tables. Bittorrent has been using one for years. The blockchain part is just a distributed database that is close to unfalsifiable. But it is still centralised! Everyone involved in a specific blockchain has the same database, that is the entire point. So if your goal is to track the provenance of a tiddler than you can use a blockchain. But that doesn't prevent copying and plagiarism, it just makes it impossible to impersonate someone else or to claim that you did something to the chain that you didn't do. We can make things unfalsifiable with normal cryptographic signing and not worry about the overhead of the blockchain. The only thing we will be missing is the history which I think is of very limited use and not all chains even save the entire history. Sorry if this is a bit more than the conversation here requires, but I have been around far too many VC types whose eyes glaze over at the mention of blockchain without having any idea what they are talking about. They just see bitcoin speculation and think that means any blockchain implementation will make them rich. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/eb681990-465a-4112-b67b-fe353cac769c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
