The Responsibility Behind the Smiles
This post discusses the responsibilities and challenges faced by a school head, including tasks such as purchasing supplies, distributing resources, and providing technical assistance to teachers. Despite the challenges, the author finds inspiration and happiness in the smiles of the students and parents.
The Responsibility Behind the Smiles
Learning How To Make Arrabiata
Discusses Chan-Sakada Om's day without their mom and sister, their new resizable ring, and their experience learning to make the dish Arrabiata.
Learning How To Make Arrabiata
Group Investigation
ALFYD (@affiedalfayed) discusses the learning strategy called "Group Investigation" and how it can be applied in the classroom to encourage collaborative and independent learning among students. The post outlines the steps involved in implementing this strategy.
Group Investigation
Who: The post is written by ALFYD (@affiedalfayed), who is a teacher and writer.
What: The post discusses a learning strategy called "Group Investigation" and provides tips for teachers on how to implement it in the classroom.
Why: The purpose of the post is to provide educators with information and guidance on how to use the Group Investigation learning strategy to promote collaborative and independent learning among students.
How: The post explains the steps involved in implementing the Group Investigation learning strategy in the classroom, including selecting sub-topics, forming groups, planning, conducting investigations, evaluating information, and presenting results. The post also highlights the role of the teacher as a facilitator in the learning process.
educating
@ruthy01 discusses her hobbies, specifically reading, writing, and educating others, and how these activities have contributed to their intellectual abilities and personal relationships.
reading, writing and educating
What: @ruthy01's hobbies, which include reading, writing, and educating
Why: The author enjoys these hobbies because they have improved their intellectual abilities and personal relationships with others.
When: The author started reading in elementary school and has continued with their hobbies since then.
How: Reading has helped the author discover new words, improve spelling skills, increase reading speed, and learn about new innovations and ideas. Writing is used as a means of expressing feelings and ideas. Educating others brings the author joy and motivates them to study more. These hobbies have also built the author's self-esteem and personal relationships with others.
Teaching and Establishing Boundaries
@pinkchic discusses her experience as a teacher and the importance of establishing boundaries in the classroom to create a positive and effective learning environment.
Teaching and Establishing Boundaries
Who: The author @pinkchic, who is a teacher.
What: Reflecting on their experiences in teaching and establishing boundaries.
Where: In a classroom and in their own personal experiences.
Why: To share personal experiences and insights about teaching and establishing boundaries.
When: During the author's teaching career, including their experiences in a private school and a government institution.
How: The author discusses their experiences, including setting restrictions and rules, creating a well-equipped instructional environment, allowing students to choose their own rules, and using strategies like assigning tasks or creating a reading corner for discipline. They also mention the "Bulls Attitude Corner" as a reflection of their teaching approach.
learn to work with others
What: A comment on Learning To Work With Others. Agreeing with the importance of learning to work with others and the consequences of not doing so.
Why: To highlight the significance of collaborating with others and the negative outcomes of failing to do so.
How: The comment explains that by not learning to work with others, people can upset others and frustrate themselves, emphasizing the importance of this lesson in life.
Life lessons
happycrazycon discusses the importance of learning to work with others and acknowledges that life lessons cannot be avoided.
learn this
Who: The author of the post (happycrazycon) and the person they are replying to (Jadeline)
What: The author acknowledging the need to learn how to work with others and commenting on the inevitability of life lessons.
Why: To share a personal experience or opinion on the topic of learning to work with others.
How: The author expresses agreement with the idea that everyone needs to learn how to work with others, and adds a lighthearted comment about life lessons. They also thank Jadeline for their constructive comment.
Learning to Work With Others
@happycrazycon tells the story of a student named Leo who is frustrated with his group member, Dean, for not cooperating on a school project, and the author offers advice on how to handle the situation and focus on personal growth.
Learning to Work With Others
Who: The author, Leo (the student), Dean, and June (other group members).
What: Leo's frustration with Dean's lack of cooperation and teamwork on a school project.
Where: Malaysia, at a Milk Tea Chain called Tealive.
Why: Leo is upset because Dean is not helping with the project and Leo feels like he is doing all the work.
When: The incident happened two days ago (28th Feb 2018).
How: Leo tries to communicate with Dean, but Dean ignores his messages and calls, leading to Leo's frustration and anger. The author advises Leo to focus on controlling his own actions and to communicate with Dean in a respectful manner.
child that can't learn fast
Adaeze discusses the challenges faced by a mother with a child who learns at a slower pace compared to other children, and how the mother's patience, positive reinforcement, and prayers helped the child improve academically.
child that can't learn fast
Who: Adaeze, a mother.
What: Adaeze's struggle with her child's slow learning.
Why: The author wants her child to learn fast like other children.
When: The struggle began when the child was young and continued into their schooling years.
How: The author changed their approach by encouraging and praying for the child, which resulted in improvement in their academic performance.
How to learn while sleeping
Zeeshanalishaikh discusses the possibility of learning while sleeping and provides a video explanation on how to do it.
How to learn while sleeping
Who: The video discusses how anyone can learn while sleeping.
What: The video explains the concept of learning while sleeping and suggests trying it out.
Why: The purpose of the video is to explore the possibility of learning while sleeping.
How: The video provides an explanation of how one can learn while sleeping, although the specific details are not provided in the given information.
Flash Sale
@lizelle is promoting Hive Thrifted, a community store where users can sell their pre-loved items for HIVE or HBD, and the author is also offering a 50% discount on their homeware products.
Flash Sale
Who: The author of the post is @lizelle.
What: The post is about a flash sale happening on Hive Thrifted, a community store on the Hive platform. The author encourages users to sell their pre-loved items on Hive Thrifted and offers a 50% discount on their own homeware products.
Where: The flash sale is happening on Hive Thrifted, a community store on the Hive platform.
Why: The purpose of the post is to promote the flash sale on Hive Thrifted and encourage users to participate by selling their items or purchasing discounted products.
How: Users can participate in the flash sale by visiting Hive Thrifted, listing their items for sale, and purchasing discounted products using their Hive wallet. Shipping costs within South Africa are mentioned, and the author recommends using PUDO Locker-to-Locker for shipping.
the day
Jadeline's Christmas day, including a quiet breakfast, inviting guests over for simple Christmas gatherings, a dinner with family, and opening presents.
Christmas day
Who: The author (Jadeline), her husband, their children, invited guests, family members, and friends.
What: Celebrating Christmas with a quiet breakfast, opening presents, having simple Christmas gatherings with invited guests, eating dinner with family, and opening more presents at home.
Where: The author's home and the in-laws' house.
Why: To celebrate Christmas and spend time with loved ones.
When: On Christmas Day.
How: The author and their family started the day slow and had a quiet breakfast at home. They invited guests to their house for Christmas gatherings and had food such as sourdough pizzas, egg tarts, chicken liver dish, chips, and roasted chestnuts. They chatted and enjoyed each other's company. The author's son received a bow and arrow as a present, which was enjoyed by other children too. They later had dinner with family, received presents from grandparents, and ended the day by opening more presents at home.
Hive Thrifted
lizelle's introduction to the Hive Thrifted Community, which allows users to buy and sell pre-loved goods using Hive or HBD as currency. The post provides guidelines for selling, including taking clear photos, pricing in HBD, and using relevant tags.
Hive Thrifted
Who: The post is written by @lizelle for Hive Thrifted.
What: The post introduces the Hive Thrifted Community, which allows users to earn HBD or Hive by selling pre-loved goods. It provides guidelines on how to participate in the community and lists suggested product categories.
Why: The purpose of the post is to promote and explain the Hive Thrifted Community and encourage users to participate in buying and selling pre-loved goods using Hive or HBD.
How: Users can participate in the Hive Thrifted Community by subscribing to the community, taking clear photos of their products, writing a post listing their goods, and using relevant tags. They can negotiate prices in Hive or Hive Engine tokens and should consider shipping options and safety precautions. Buyers should verify the authenticity of products before making a purchase. The post also encourages readers to reblog the post to spread awareness of the community.
Congratulations to HIVE LEARNERS COMMUNITY
Gbemisola congratulates the Hive Learners community for reaching 5k subscribers and discusses the opportunity for members and non-members to design a new cover photo. The author also shares their own design process and showcases the final cover image.
Congratulations to HIVE LEARNERS COMMUNITY
Who: Gbemisola.
What: Congratulating the Hive Learners community on reaching 5k subscribers and announcing a contest for designing a new cover photo.
Why: To celebrate the milestone of reaching 5k subscribers and engage the community in designing a new cover photo.
How: The author used Canva to design the cover photo, customized the size, used gradient backgrounds, added the text "hive learners," incorporated community graphics, added the Hive Learners logo, and included the phrase "together we learn." The designs were made using Canva and the images were screenshots. The Hive Learners logo was copied from their Discord channel.
CHILDREN FAST LEARNING TECHNIQUE
Jesusboy discusses techniques for helping children learn more effectively, including understanding attention spans, helping them take charge of their learning goals, and using objects to teach.
CHILDREN FAST LEARNING TECHNIQUE
Who: Jesusboy.
What: The post discusses techniques for children to learn fast, including understanding attention span and task limits, helping children take charge of their learning goals, and making use of objects during teaching.
Why: The post aims to provide strategies and tips for teachers and parents to help children learn more effectively.
How: The post suggests various techniques such as understanding attention span, encouraging children to take charge of their learning goals, and using objects during teaching to enhance learning.
Daily Report of Day 159
@hive-lu's daily report that includes updates on the Lucoin token and the Best Curation Daily Post project. It also provides information on the top holders of Lucoin and the rewards distributed for the day. Additionally, it highlights the development goals for the project.
Daily Report of Day 159
Who: @hive-lu.
What: The post is a daily report of Day 159, which includes updates on the development goals, promotional fund, curation rewards, Lucoin token distribution, and exchange offers.
Why: The purpose of the post is to provide information and updates on the various aspects of the Lucoin token and the activities related to it.
How: The information is presented in a structured format, with sections dedicated to different topics such as development goals, promotional fund, curation rewards, and exchange offers. The details are provided in tables and text format, making it easy to understand and follow.
SKETCHING BUMBLEBEE
DEIMAGE gives a step-by-step guide on sketching the character Bumblebee from the Transformers movie, with the author providing detailed descriptions of each step and the tools needed.
SKETCHING BUMBLEBEE
Who: DEIMAGE
What: Sketching the Bumblebee character from the Transformers movie.
Why: The author enjoys making Sunday Creative posts and wanted to sketch the Bumblebee character.
How: The author used pencils, a rubber eraser, paper, a ruler, and optional pens to sketch the character. They followed a series of steps, spending time on each part of the drawing and referencing pictures on the internet for guidance.
TIPS THAT CAN HELP NEWBIES THRIVE ON HIVE
@vickoly offers tips for newbies on how to thrive on the Hive blockchain, including asking questions, publishing quality content, engaging with others, enrolling in newbie initiatives, identifying a niche, participating in contests, and joining Discord to make friends and gain knowledge.
TIPS THAT CAN HELP NEWBIES THRIVE ON HIVE
Who: Newbies on Hive
What: Tips to help newbies thrive on the Hive blockchain
Where: Hive blockchain
Why: To provide guidance and support to newbies and help them succeed on the platform.
How: 1. Ask questions: Seek guidance from onboarders or reputable people on the platform. 2. Publish top-notch content: Share high-quality and original content that promotes the growth of the Hive blockchain. 3. Engage with others: Communicate and build relationships with other authors on Hive through meaningful engagement. 4. Enroll in Newbies Initiative Program: Join the @newbies-hive initiative to learn about the details and rules of the Hive blockchain. 5. Identify your niche: Find your area of specialization and share content related to it in respective communities. 6. Participate in contests: Take part in contests on Hive to earn rewards and overcome writer's block. 7. Join Discord/make friends: Connect with other authors and gain knowledge about Hive through community channels like Discord.
KEY LESSON I LEARNED FROM AN ELDERLY PERSON
@vickoly discusses their experience with an elderly person, specifically their mother's older sister, and the valuable lessons they learned from her, including the importance of trust and confirmation.
KEY LESSON I LEARNED FROM AN ELDERLY PERSON
Who: The author's grandmother and Madam Jacob Felicia (the author's mother's older sister)
What: Sharing lessons learned from elderly people
Where: The author's grandmother's residence and Madam Jacob Felicia's residence
Why: To appreciate the care, tenderness, advice, and vast experience of elderly people and to share the lessons learned from them
When: The author's childhood and after the passing of the grandmother
How: By spending time with elderly people, learning from their experiences, and being corrected and guided by them
11 POWERFUL LESSONS TO LEARN FROM THE HEN
Valentine George discusses eleven powerful lessons that can be learned from observing a mother hen, including good planning, discipline, sacrifice, generosity, faith, hope, wisdom, protection, unity, mentorship, and staying focused. The post encourages readers to apply these lessons to their own lives and goals in 2018.
11 POWERFUL LESSONS TO LEARN FROM THE HEN
Who: Mother hen.
What: Lessons to learn from the hen.
Why: To improve ourselves and impact life in our everyday activities.
How: By observing the behaviors and characteristics of the hen.
LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Sharkeisha Jenkins discusses the best way to learn a foreign language, which is through immersion, and recommends using media in that language, such as podcasts and YouTube videos, to engage with the language daily.
LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Who: Sharkeisha Jenkins.
What: Learning a foreign language through immersion
Where: 3 different countries, YouTube, blackgirlslearnlanguages.co, Google Translate.
Why: Immersion is the best way to learn a language quickly.
How: By visiting different countries, studying, only speaking the language, engaging with language through media, listening with the intent to learn.
million dollar steemit page
Nassim Mehdaoui discusses the Million Dollar Homepage and its success as a clever and innovative website, drawing parallels to the concept of Steemit and the opportunities it provides for participation and rewards in the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.
million dollar steemit page
Who: Nassim Mehdaoui.
What: Discussing the Million Dollar Homepage and its success, as well as promoting the concept of Steemit as a platform for participation and rewards.
Why: To inform readers about the Million Dollar Homepage and encourage participation and support for Steemit.
When: The Million Dollar Homepage was created in 2005.
How: The author explains the concept and success of the Million Dollar Homepage, and encourages readers to support the post by commenting and sharing.
OPTIMAL LEARNING
MoOsTaFa discusses the two modes of thinking, focused thinking and diffuse thinking, and how alternating between these modes can enhance learning and problem-solving.
OPTIMAL LEARNING
Who: MoOsTaFa and researchers in the field.
What: The different modes of thinking (focused and diffuse) and their impact on learning.
Why: To explain the optimal modes of thinking for optimal learning.
How: By providing information and examples of how focused and diffuse thinking can be used in the learning process.
https://steemit.com/science/@mostafa1/optimal-modes-of-thinking-for-optimal-learning-whatever-you-re-learnng-learn-more-effectively
Introduction To Memory
Who: MoOsTaFa
What: An introduction to memory and tips on becoming a better learner
Why: To provide information and tips on improving memory and learning abilities
How: The post explains the different modes of thinking, the two major memory systems (working memory and long term memory), and the importance of practice and repetition in improving memory and learning.
Introduction To Memory
MoOsTaFa provides an introduction to memory and offers tips on how to become a better learner by understanding the two major memory systems: long term memory and working memory.
Hive Onboarding problem
KenCode@Agorise discusses the perceived "onboarding problem" on Hive, stating that people who find it difficult to sign up and use the platform are simply afraid to learn something new and unwilling to ask for help.
Hive Onboarding problem...
Who: The author of the post and their neighbor
What: The onboarding problem on Hive
Why: To express frustration and disbelief at people finding the signup process difficult
How: The author attempted to discuss Hive with their neighbor, but the neighbor made excuses and the author had to change the subject. The author compares the signup process on Hive to Twitter, highlighting the perceived simplicity of the former. The author believes that the problem lies in people's unwillingness to learn something new and potentially appear foolish. The author also suggests that men need to be more assertive and women should stand up to men who complain about the difficulty of the signup process.
Let's beegin honey 😚⬇️Please show me some examples of evergreen contentPlease show me some examples of evergreen contentClearTry for FreeShareShare Results PageShare This AppSave As ImageCopy Text
In answer to "Please show me some examples of evergreen content", HiveDesk suggested:
Evergreen content refers to content that remains relevant and valuable to readers over a long period of time. When it comes to the Hive blockchain, evergreen content might include beginner's guides to using the platform, explanations of key concepts like decentralized finance, or tutorials on how to develop applications on the Hive network.
Some examples of evergreen content for the Hive blockchain could be: - "A Beginner's Guide to Hive: Getting Started with Decentralized Social Media and Cryptocurrency" - "Understanding Decentralized Finance (DeFi) on the Hive Blockchain" - "How to Build and Deploy DApps on the Hive Network: A Step-by-Step Tutorial"
These types of content would provide value to anyone interested in learning about or getting involved with the Hive blockchain, regardless of when they come across the information.
References: - "A Beginner's Guide to Hive: Getting Started with Decentralized Social Media and Cryptocurrency" (hive.io/eco) - "Understanding Decentralized Finance (DeFi) on the Hive Blockchain" (hive.blog) - "How to Build and Deploy DApps on the Hive Network: A Step-by-Step Tutorial" (developers.hive.io)
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automate transactions
For example, think about paying your monthly bills. Instead of writing checks and mailing them, you can set up automatic payments through your bank's website. The bank's computer system will send the money to the right places at the right times without you needing to do it every month.
Blockchains and distributed ledgers also use SMR, in which casethe chain of blocks (and the transactions therein) constitutes theevent log, the ledger (e.g. the balance of every account) is the result-ing state, and smart contracts or the network’s built-in transactionprocessing logic are the state transition function [66].
ONEUP
delegate to dhedge.oneup
CTP
delegate band excess (now 1000) to dhedge.ctp
How much CTP can you tip daily?
100 CTP staked = 0.10 CTP 1000 CTP staked = 0.20 CTP 5000 CTP staked = 0.25 CTP 10000 CTP staked = 0.30 CTP 50000 CTP staked = 0.40 CTP 100k+ CTP staked = 0.50 CTP
ALIVE
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POB
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CENT
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BEE
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NEOXAG
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STEM
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LOLZ
LOLZ Holding Levels 16 - 1 64 - 2 128 - 4 256 - 6 512 - 8 1024 - 10
Keep 16 staked for tipping & swap rest for LEO
LEO
Power Up 150 15th of every month
BBH
Every Saturday I send tokes to people that own BBH. Here is the break down.
If you own 10 or more BBH up to 4,999 you get dripped Hive(swap.hive).
If you own 5,000 or more BBH up to 9,999 you get dripped swap.hive and Alive Tokens.
If you own 10,000 or more BBH you get dripped swap.hive, Alive and $LEO tokens.
All just for owning BBH.
You can get BBH two ways, you can buy it of TribalDex or you can have it tipped to you.
Here is the tipping part:
In a 24 hour period, reset at new day UTC. There are currently four levels of tipping.
Level 1 = 1000 BBH holdings = 1 tip per day you can send Level 2 = 5000 BBH holdings = 5 tip per day you can send Level 3 = 20000 BBH holdings = 20 tip per day you can send Level 4 = 50000 BBH holdings = 50 tip per day you can send
You don't have to stake, just hold. The tip does not come from your holdings but from BBH itself.
As BBH grows, so will the rewards.
WAIV
Delegate to dhedge.waiv for passive income
PIZZA
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VYB
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VKBT
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SEX
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FOODIE
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SBT
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Splinterlands Battle Token
ARCHON
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CCC
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History of Blockchain Technology
Explore the evolution of blockchain technology in our comprehensive guide. Learn its history and impact. Stay updated in 2023. >> History of Blockchain Technology
It’s the only defensible position once one dives into the underlying ecaonomics of the products being sold, which are all contingent on fraud and misrepresentation
Flancian thought this was interesting.
all the data about how people how much 00:30:19 people ask for the values become creates a ranking of values according to the culture to the people so if you're from korea from taiwan from uk 00:30:32 from from italy uh it's different and so this is a periodic table of values where the values are organized in a hierarchy based on how people collect them 00:30:44 and and and then the values become of course words and this is a calligraphy of values that result from the process of using eeg
-Comment - this display would make an excellent BEing journey to explore perspectival knowing, situatedness and the misunderstandings that emerge from different ways of seeing the world, different meanings attached to the same words, and different saliencies and priorities
in korea during uh idea 2019 and at the end of the process what you 00:29:00 have designed the 3d model uh you you get you get a qr code and you cannot have it on a wallet and it's registered on the blockchain and so you can start trading 00:29:12 so just imagine that you trade happiness you trade love anarchy art autonomy peace purity you trade them as values becoming value 00:29:24 having a value and so people can decide by battering swapping them if you want if you want peace and love for power
But coordination only works when you have 51% or more of the force on the side of the people doing the coordinating, and when you haven’t come up with some brilliant trick to make coordination impossible.
Hmm sounds like Satoshi Consensus
Password Requirements12 characters1 special symbol1 capital letter1 digit
https://www.reddit.com/avatar/claim
Reddit blockchain vault for avatars
First time a service I've used has encouraged a blockchain vault for any reason. Here they're giving away a free avatar which I'm supposed to save in my vault, so obviously it's very valuable. (meh!)
and though he is right that blockchain currencies can “enable the real-life future by indelibly recording the past,” the question remains who exactly will use those powerful tools to create what kind of culture with which sorts of values.
Blockchain
One-click Login with Blockchain: A MetaMask TutorialOnline users are becoming increasingly resistant to traditional email/password registration processes. One-click social logins via Facebook, Google, or GitHub are better, but they come with data privacy trade-offs. This article introduces a one-click, cryptographically-secure login flow using MetaMask, with all data stored on the app’s own back-end.
It included a shared public ledger with crypto-provable integrity that recorded all this stuff. But no blockchain because we just couldn’t convince ourselves that the real world wanted zero-trust; so there was a transaction manager you had to trust. Dear Reader: I think that at some point, in a civilization, there has to be trust. I think that’s maybe the main reason we have civilizations. Call me crazy.
Trust is an achievement not a burden.
What Is a Blockchain Oracle? A blockchain oracle is a secure piece of middleware that facilitates communication between blockchains and any off-chain system, including data providers, web APIs, enterprise backends, cloud providers, IoT devices, e-signatures, payment systems, other blockchains, and more. Oracles take on several key functions: Listen – monitor the blockchain network to check for any incoming user or smart contract requests for off-chain data. Extract – fetch data from one or multiple external systems such as off-chain APIs hosted on third-party web servers. Format – format data retrieved from external APIs into a blockchain readable format (input) and/or making blockchain data compatible with an external API (output). Validate – generate a cryptographic proof attesting to the performance of an oracle service using any combination of data signing, blockchain transaction signing, TLS signatures, Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) attestations, or zero-knowledge proofs. Compute – perform some type of secure off-chain computation for the smart contract, such as calculating a median from multiple oracle submissions or generating a verifiable random number for a gaming application. Broadcast – sign and broadcast a transaction on the blockchain in order to send data and any corresponding proof on-chain for consumption by the smart contract. Output (optional) – send data to an external system upon the execution of a smart contract, such as relaying payment instructions to a traditional payment network or triggering actions from a cyber-physical system.
Seems related to the paradox of information systems. Add to Anki deck
What would a secure Federated PMK / archive network backed by a minimal blockchain look like?
Possibly like Holochain (which is distinct from the blockchain architecture). Blockchain only seems helpful if you need all of the following: - a database - immutability - distributed data - decentralized & totally trustless - append only - cryptographically secure assurance
Confer Brandon Enright's provocative talk "Blockchain is Bullshit" for an elaboration of these features. The first 10 or so minutes is mostly uninsightful trolling, so the link takes one to his argument about the key features of blockchain.
AFAICT, Holochain eases the feature of "decentralized", although Laurie Voss suggests that it's better to think of Bitcoin & Ethereum as "distributed" (in both the structure & control).
In Voss' taxonomy, I suspect that Holochain's structure would be "distributed" (ie, "No total point of failure, all nodes work on shared goal") and control would be "federated" (ie, "Limited set of shared rules, multiple overlapping/conflicting rules below")
When is a blockchain solution right and when is it not?
Ideally, the green and digital transitions reinforce each other. For example, distributed ledger technology, which underlies blockchain and thus cryptocurrencies, can be used in material tracing, aiding the circular economy by better maintenance and recycling.
We finish with a com-parative analysis of these blockchain technologies,in terms of their relative vulnerability to quantumattacks.
We expect a comparative analysis of various BCh technologies, in terms of their relative vulnerability to quantum attacks.
Given the strong coupling between data andcryptosystems in blockchains, the potential vulner-ability of these cryptosystems to quantum attacks,the likely introduction of capable quantum com-puters in the mid-term future—not to mention theusual high monetary value of the assets secured byblockchains—it is important to more deeply under-stand their current level of vulnerability.
Author states its motivation: - strong coupling between data and cryptosystems in BCh - the cryptosystems potential vulnerability to quantum computers - the likely introduction of quantum computers in the mid-term future - also the high monetary value of the assets secured plus momentum of BCh.
vulnerable toadvances in quantum technology
the major threat: quantum technology
n blockchainsthe protected resources cannot easily be decoupledfrom the encryption system being used
THIS IS IMPORTANT:
In BCh, data decoupling from encryption system is not easy. How much difficult it is?
Time constraints
timestamps guarantee the coherences of the state of contract after the execution.
Exposes to attack, because a miner can choose the timestamp with a certain degree of arbitrariness.
Generating randomness.
EVM execution is deterministic. How to account for randomness?
Pesudo random generator, probability distribution.
Unpredictable state
state of the contract it determined by the value of its fields and balance.
sequentiality -->contract's state is not guaranteed
Taxonomy of vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts
Three levels: language, ecosystem and infrastructure.
blockchain's consensus model
blockchain uses method to batch transactions into block. Establishing which node can submit a block to the chain is the blockchain consensus model or consensus algorithm.
use a more elaborate method to select transactions and choose between conflicting state transition.
state transitions in a blockchain.
Of course letting arbitrary code potentially run forever wouldn’t work. So instead any program is run for only a limited number of instructions until it either completes or is terminated. The measure of the amount of compute is called “gas”, with various instructions and operations costing a different amount of gas to process. The total cost of a transaction is the amount of gas consumed times the gas price.
These programs are called smart contracts, which is misleading because look, here's an example of a smart contract. There's no legal language in there. It doesn't function as a legal document.
A lawyer's view of blockchain "smart contracts"
Open educational resources (OERs) are fungible functional units used in education by both educators and students
OERs on Ethereum
If we don't create good large-scale aggregates of social data, then we risk ceding market share to opaque and centralized social credit scores instead.
Vitalik argues that if we don't create good decentralized social credit score systems, that vacuum will be filled by centralized alternatives.
This is equivalent to the famous double-spend problem in designing decentralized currencies, except instead of the goal being to prevent a previous owner of a coin from being able to send it again, here the goal is to prevent the previous key controlling an account from being able to change the key. Just like creating a decentralized currency, doing account management in a decentralized way requires something like a blockchain. A blockchain can timestamp the key change messages, providing common knowledge over whether B or C came first.
Decentralized account management may also run into a problem analogous to the double spend problem. Someone with key A signs a message they are now using key B, and an attacker gets a hold of that key and signs a message they are using key C. An observer has no way of knowing whether the message about B or C happened first.
Additional NFT certificates of completion are being created for students who completed Duke Engineering’s blockchain course sequence in earlier sessions
Makes sense to credential legacy earners; as long as the competencies didn't change, it seems inequitable to deny previous learners the same recognition as new learners.
We can program a blockchain to record virtually everything or anything of value and importance, not only payments and profits, but birth and death certificates, marriage licenses, deeds, titles of ownership, educational degrees
How can we store physical assets on the blockchain?
And how about growing social inequality? Through the blockchain, we can gofrom redistributing wealth to distributing value and opportunity fairly
How can this be accomplished, specially for people who don't have access to the internet? Will you still need an intermediary, possibly Non-profits who will be able to have better transparency for how the assets are used to accomplish the mission?
Blockchain Info from BuiltIn https://builtin.com/blockchain
Case Study 7: AmplyTheme: Impact investing Sub-themes: Education SDGs: What is it about: Amply, from the ixo Foundation (2017), is digitizing the management of South Africa’s early education program by recording children’s school attendance on the Ethereum blockchain and issuing tokens as proof of impact in exchange for governmental subsidies
Amply Control de impacto en Educacion con Blockchain #Blockchain #Educacion #IxoFoundation #Tokens
The total amount of money lost by blockchain hackers is about $ 25,295,753,270.63 Total hack events 662
A list of known blockchain hack events.
The second reason might support positive change. The existence of tokens and decentralization means that it’s possible to build resilient open source communities where early contributors and supporters benefit handsomely over time. No one owns these communities, and we can hope that these communities will work hard to serve themselves and their users, not the capital markets or other short-term players.
Capitalism's subject is Capital, not the bourgeoisie or an owner class. "Open source communities" are still corporations.
And that’s the first reason that the blockchain matters—because there’s a chance that it might lead to more open, resilient, market-focused networks and databases. It’s only a chance, though, because all the hype around the tokens sometimes makes it seem more likely that financial operators will simply seek to manipulate unregulated markets for their own benefit.
There's no chance. Blockchains by principle benefit corporations in the long run.
Okay, so what’s the blockchain? It’s a database. Unlike most databases, it’s not controlled by one entity and it’s not easily rewritten. Instead, it’s a ledger, a permanent, examinable, public database. One can use it to record transactions of various sorts. It would be a really good way to keep track of property records, for example. Instead, we have title insurance, unsearchable folders of deeds in City Hall and often dusty tax records.
This wrongly assumes that
It will take time for the idea of decentralized trust through computation to become a part of mainstream consciousness, and until then, the idea creates cognitive dissonance for those accustomed to centralized trust systems. With thousands of years of practical use, centralized systems of trust are accepted unconditionally and without much thought as the only model of trust.
Agree
We call blockchain the Trust Protocol. It's for people who don't know each other and with no reason to trust each other. Yet these people can still do business together on a blockchain, because they can trust the blockchain protocols. These protocols preserve the integrity of their transaction.
Blockchain in a nutshell. Easy to understand.
The prototype elaborated by P2P Models is called “Open.Smart”. Basically, the prototype is designed as a transparent database which serves to collect and order Smart member data. This data is supplemented by other records and documents required for subscription and is saved and encrypted in the blockchain. Open.Smart is an external app that relies on a digital wallet called Metamask that makes it possible to interact with the Smart platform (Figure 3 illustrates the beta version of Open.Smart)
But ... why have it on the blockchain vs a normal database?
Partisans of the blockchain might say that it’s okay if these types of centralized platforms emerge, because the state itself is available on the blockchain, so if these platforms misbehave clients can simply move elsewhere. However, I would suggest that this is a very simplistic view of the dynamics that make platforms what they are.
Indeed ...
However, I would suggest that this is a very simplistic view of the dynamics that make platforms what they are.
MetaMask doesn’t actually do much, it’s just a view onto data provided by these centralized APIs. This isn’t a problem specific to MetaMask – what other option do they have? Rainbow, etc are set up in exactly the same way. (Interestingly, Rainbow has their own data for the social features they’re building into their wallet – social graph, showcases, etc – and have chosen to build all of that on top of Firebase instead of the blockchain.) All this means that if your NFT is removed from OpenSea, it also disappears from your wallet. It doesn’t functionally matter that my NFT is indelibly on the blockchain somewhere, because the wallet (and increasingly everything else in the ecosystem) is just using the OpenSea API to display NFTs, which began returning 304 No Content for the query of NFTs owned by my address!
Indeed ...
Enter the blockchain, the first native digital medium for peer-to-peer valueexchange. Its protocol establishes the rules—in the form of globally distributedcomputations and heavy duty encryption—that ensure the integrity of the datatraded among billions of devices without going through a trusted third party.
Yes I have always pondered the extent, need and cons of having third parties with monopolies on our value exchange and how trust can be established without them. Blockchain is so powerful in this regard.
Most of the descriptions I’ve seen focus on mechanisms - block chains, smart contracts, tokens, etc - but I would argue those are implementation details and some are much more likely to succeed than others. (E.g. I think using private keys for authentication/authorization is obviously better if you can get over the UX hump - SSH has shown us that for decades.)
Most descriptions of Web3 focus on mechanisms — blockchains, smart contracts, etc — but those are implementation details.
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This Internet of Everything needs a Ledger of Everything. Business, commerce, and the economy need a Digital Reckoning.
Internet of Everything -- Ledger of Everything
So the smaller the smart contract the better then.
So this must mean that solidity code is very lean. Importing packages takes up memory and since you're only borrowing from the miner this would be a bad idea.
Does this mean I'll have to recreate everything again or is it the wrong approach if you have to do so?
Maybe it’s time to dig into the non-blockchain smart contract idea that’s been floating around for a while. Drop the PoW and transaction fees, but maintain the trustless verification and open data/code
There was publictimestamp,org. It was a blockchain but it was open, no PoW/fees. It was centralized but they asked everyone to help with attestation.
Centralization vs decentralizationIn the table below, we list some of the broad-strokes advantages and disadvantages of centralized and decentralized digital networks.Centralized SystemsDecentralized SystemsLow network diameter (all participants are connected to a central authority); information propagates quickly, as propagation is handled by a central authority with lots of computational resources.The furthest participants on the network may potentially be many edges away from each other. Information broadcast from one side of the network may take a long time to reach the other side.Usually higher performance (higher throughput, fewer total computational resources expended) and easier to implement.Usually lower performance (lower throughput, more total computational resources expended) and more complex to implement.In the event of conflicting data, resolution is clear and easy: the ultimate source of truth is the central authority.A protocol (often complex) is needed for dispute resolution, if peers make conflicting claims about the state of data which participants are meant to be synchronized on.Single point of failure: malicious actors may be able to take down the network by targeting the central authority.No single point of failure: network can still function even if a large proportion of participants are attacked/taken out.Coordination among network participants is much easier, and is handled by a central authority. Central authority can compel network participants to adopt upgrades, protocol updates, etc., with very little friction.Coordination is often difficult, as no single agent has the final say in network-level decisions, protocol upgrades, etc. In the worst case, network is prone to fracturing when there are disagreements about protocol changes.Central authority can censor data, potentially cutting off parts of the network from interacting with the rest of the network.Censorship is much harder, as information has many ways to propagate across the network.Participation in the network is controlled by the central authority.Anyone can participate in the network; there are no “gatekeepers.” Ideally, the cost of participation is very low.
Web2 vs Web3 Centralization vs Decentralization
In our Design Science Studio session today, Niki Selken suggested that we purchase Tezos to experiment with NFTs.
Or the PIs who enjoy and excel at raising funds can do so and even re-deploy it to the right scientists, akin to founders who become angel investors and venture capitalists.
Sounds like a Self-Organized Funding Allocation (SOFA): https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol24/iss3/art29/
A blockchain system has no ability to regular "the market" in the sense of people's general ability to freely make transactions. But what it can do is regulate and structure (or even create) specific markets, setting up patterns of specific behaviors whose incentives are ultimately set and guided by institutions that have anti-collusion guardrails built in, and can resist pressure from economic actors.
There is a large body of intellectual work that criticizes a bubble of concepts that they refer to as "economization", "neoliberalism" and similar terms, arguing that they corrode democratic political values and leave many people's needs unmet as a result. The world of cryptocurrency is very economic (lots of tokens flying around everywhere, with lots of functions being assigned to those tokens), very neo (the space is 12 years old!) and very liberal (freedom and voluntary participation are core to the whole thing). Do these critiques also apply to blockchain systems? If so, what conclusions should we draw, and how could blockchain systems be designed to account for these critiques? Nathan's answer: more hybrid approaches combining ideas from both economics and politics. But what will it actually take to achieve that, and will it give the results that we want?
Active Indexers, Curators and Delegators can earn income from the network proportional to the amount of work they perform and their GRT stake.
Curators are subgraph developers, data consumers or community members who signal to Indexers which APIs should be indexed by The Graph Network. Curators deposit GRT into a bonding curve to signal on a specific subgraph and earn a portion of query fees for the subgraphs they signal on; incentivizing the highest quality data sources. Curators will curate on subgraphs and deposit GRT via the Graph Explorer dApp. Because this occurs on a bonding curve, that means that the earlier you signal on a subgraph, the greater share of the query fees you earn on that subgraph for a given amount of GRT deposited. This also means that when you go to withdraw, you could end up with more or less GRT than you started with.
cryptoeconomics still amazes me, how everything can be an opportunity for 'investment'
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Liquidity pools are pools of tokens that are locked in a smart contract. By offering liquidity, they guarantee trading, and because of this, they are widely used by decentralized exchanges.
Then there are tokens. Tokens by definition do not run on their own blockchain, unlike a coin. They have been added to an already existing blockchain. Tokens can have the same functionality as a coin, although this is not common.Tokens that are created on the Ethereum network are typically ERC-20 tokens.
Developers can program applications that can create, store and manage digital assets, also known as tokens, on the blockchain. For this to work, smart contracts and decentralized applications (DApps) are written and built. The expiration of these contracts and agreements is automatically enforced if the blockchain receives the correct data. You can make complex, irreversible agreements without the need for an intermediary.
who’s gonna let me create a digital garden / commonplace book on the blockchain
Registering that this was a question in the wild. Crazypants, but there it is.
What problem would this actually be solving though?!?
Though things are improving, the fact remains that no Blockchain model is truly energy efficient, so if you’re in doubt as to whether you need it and are concerned about CO2 emissions, you should proceed with caution. In some ways, the problem of the Blockchain is that it hit the public imagination - and that of app developers and entrepreneurs - long before the technology was fully mature (it definitely still isn’t) and many of these scalability and energy-consumption problems have yet to be ironed out.
The high costs of implementing a TTP come about mainly because traditional security solutions, which must be invoked where the protocol itself leaves off, involve high personnel costs. For more information on the necessity and security benefits of these traditional security solutions, especially personnel controls, when implementing TTP organizations, see this author's essay on group controls. The risks and costs borne by protocol users also come to be dominated by the unreliability of the TTP – the DNS and certificate authorities being two quite commom sources of unreliability and frustration with the Internet and PKIs respectively.
The high costs of TTPs have to do with the high personnel costs that are involved in the centralized solutions.
So, what problem is blockchain solving for identity if PII is not being stored on the ledger? The short answer is that blockchain provides a transparent, immutable, reliable and auditable way to address the seamless and secure exchange of cryptographic keys. To better understand this position, let us explore some foundational concepts.
What problem is blockchain solving in the SSI stack?
It is an immutable (often permissionless) and auditable way to address the seamless and secure exchange of cryptographic keys.
organizationally organizationally centralized decentralized logically eg *new* centralized Paypal Bitcoin logically eg eg decentralized Excel e-mail
Organizationally decentralized, logically centralized
Organizationally centralized are systems that are controlled by a single organization. Organizationally decentralized are systems that are not under control of any one entity.
Logically decentralized are systems that have multiple databases, where participants control their own database entirely. Excel is logically decentralized. Logically centralized are systems that appear as if they have a single global database (irrespective of how it's implemented).
Organizationally decentralized but logically centralized state will allow for the creation of protocols that can undermine the power of the centralized incumbents.
Organizationally decentralized but logically centralized
blockchain-based system
I see the point that blockchain helps make provenance tracing possible, but will need more details of how blockchain technology is leveraged here. Otherwise, I still feel stuck by questions like "Why it has to be blockchain?" and "Can't other technologies serve the same function?".
the company has “reasonable plans” to onboard 100 million users on this identity platform within the next couple of years.
That sounds like a vision-less idea of incorporating user identities to gain profits is not really discernible from facebook's Libra.
the startup itself can’t remove songs
content is not hosted by Audius, instead being hosted by independent node operators.
Audius is trying to avoid SoundCloud’s copyright issues by not hosting the user-uploaded content itself. Its open-source protocol, built on blockchain, means that the responsibility of hosting and making uploaded content available is spread out among people who register as node operators.
This article kind of reads like a smear piece on Audius
Blockchains make piracy more of a headache.
How so? Couldn't you just crosscheck the public ledger to verify the uploaders' info??
Right now, most of the blockchain mining in the world happens in China, where provinces with the cheapest energy set up mining operations to do the ‘proof of work’ calculations that the dominant paradigm of blockchain requires. Factories that ostensibly make other things now acquire significant computing hardware and dedicate energy in order to, essentially, print money that’s then stored offshore. A recent study shows that 40% of China’s mostly bitcoin mining is powered by coal-burning. We also already know that non-blockchain server farms in cheap energy countries consume so much energy they distort national grids, and throw off huge amounts of heat that then need cooling for the servers to operate, creating a vicious cycle of energy consumption
A private blockchain still involves the record keeping of everyone's transactions by each node of this network.
, private blockchain. It's organized and controlled by a known and trusted consortium of entities, like say, banks.
private blockchain
The computers connected to the blockchain network are known as nodes. Some nodes donate their processing power to solve a math problem associated with a new block. The Bitcoin community calls these people "miners,
Nodes and Miners defination
With blockchain, trust comes from the network itself. Instead of simply trusting a middleman institution, we can trust the blockchain code. The way that the blockchain is built means all parties in the system, not just the ones involved in the transaction, come to an agreement on what the facts are. And once they agree, a new block is added
Trust in blockchain
This validation process makes theft impossible by any practical measure. If you wanted to steal a bitcoin, you'd have to rewrite the coins' entire history on the block chain.
Security of blockhain
At its most basic, Blockchain is open-source code. Anyone can download it for free, run it, and use it to develop new tools for managing transactions online
Blockchain is most stimply and The blockchain is public, it's open-source code, it's a protocol, not a product.
Blockchain is tackling value industries like financial services and supply chains. These are far larger than information industries like media and publishing, and so the impact of blockchain will be that much greater, and so potentially will the aggregate value. Sometimes the saying goes, "We need a little irrational exuberance to build the future."
Blockchain is looking beyond information. Blockchain is looking for value
This is possible when all records, documents, contracts, and digital identity are verifiable as the one-and-only master copy.
So combine the verifiability of all:
In a world free of bad-actors, our societies become safer, more civil, and more trusted. Even though the heart of a person may be evil, that personal evil cannot be acted-out with data that is behind a database that leverages Blockchain methodologies.
This makes me wonder...could this be a characteristic of 4th density? A type of openness where ALL "bad acting" is exposed to all and thereby diminished? Talk about the power of positive peer pressure!
The tragedy of these heinous activities are accomplished through bad actors who are capable of hiding the truth through the primitive nature of databases within computer systems.
Envision a "table" where money can be exchanged on top (visible business) and "under the table" (off the records).
Think of Blockchain as a system that openly reports ALL transactions...taking out the "table"!
Many of the deceptive practices mentioned below, have each become larger than any Fortune 500 Business.
These are all "MONSTERS" that exist because they haven't been checked. Kinda like radio active waste from a useful energy source. If we don't bring regulation into the system, the system will self-sabotage in order to self-regulate.
I disagree that these companies purposely prey on people. They passively prey on people by not regulating their practices and thereby leaving room for these loopholes to exist!
have each become larger than any Fortune 500 Business.
This is HUGE!
ARE ALL BIGGER THAN ALL FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES
Blockchain is a fairly simple approach that leverages the Internet of Things (IoT), digital access to records, and the need for better security and transportability of data between people and organizations.
Blockchain = uses direct knowledge of signal to secure it's movement and it's identity.
In its simplest form, Blockchain is a database designed to allow the Internet to take advantage of better security. It accomplishes this through a digital ledger (distributed-ledger) that acts like a supply-chain which defines who can access the data within the chain
Blockchain is an elaborate list that is so openly accurate that it can be used as a security system where WE ALL SEE THE EXCHANGING HANDS
The current distrust around the globe is at its highest level due to unfair trading practices, cybercrime, false reporting mechanisms, ability to falsify documents, and the buzz word of the day …‘fake-news.’
An incentive is any design element of a system that influences the behavior of system participants by changing the relative costs and benefits of choices those participants may make.
unlike a traditional computer, a blockchain computer can offer strong trust guarantees, rooted in the mathematical and game-theoretic properties of the system. A user or developer can trust that a piece of code running on a blockchain computer will continue to behave as designed, even if individual participants in the network change their motivations or try to subvert the system. This means that the control of a blockchain computer can be placed in the hands of a community
Aventus, Ticketchain or Blocktix tokens (all three are blockchain-based ticket issuance platforms)
Basically, all token pitches include a line that goes something like this: “There is a fixed supply of tokens. As demand for the token increases, so must the price.” This logic fails to take into account the velocity problem.
With an immutable, public record of every transaction,
Só tem como ser imutável se tiver alguma garantia de que os nós não possam ser alterados, mas aí term que manter vários nós, quem vai ter interesse me manter os nós?
A blockchain oracle is any device or entity that connects a deterministic blockchain with off-chain data.
Vitalik on PoS
primera clase block chain
5 grandes idesas a desarollar:
Cripto activos: capacidad para comerciar activos digitales peer-to-peer sin pasa a traves de un banco o intermediario.
identidad digital: capacidad para capturar, procesar y administrar nuestros datos, caja negra digital con el fin de que no sean administrados por google,facebook,etc
smartcontracts: pieza de codigo que con un objetivo especifico que ejecuta un conjunto de instrucciones en blockchain (garantiza el cumplimiento contraactual y son autoejecutables
modelos de negocio descentralizados: sin humanos
libro de conocimientos: transacciones entre dispositivos, internet de las cosas
Solving all those complex puzzles requires a huge amount of energy. So much energy that the two biggest blockchains in the world – bitcoin and Ethereum – are now using up the same amount of electricity as the whole of Austria. Carrying out a payment with Visa requires about 0.002 kilowatt-hours; the same payment with bitcoin uses up 906 kilowatt-hours
cryptocurrencies require A LOT of energy
The fact that no one is in charge and nothing can be modified also means that mistakes cannot be corrected. A bank can reverse a payment request. This is impossible for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. So anything that has been stolen will stay stolen. There is a continuous stream of hackers targeting bitcoin exchanges and users, and fraudsters launching investment vehicles that are in fact pyramid schemes.
3rd reason for blockchain not being widely implemented: it's not safe for a general public
Also, in a blockchain you aren’t anonymous, but “pseudonymous”: your identity is linked to a number, and if someone can link your name to that number, you’re screwed. Everything you got up to on that blockchain is visible to everyone.
2nd reason for blockchain not being widely implemented: users aren't fully anonymous
Firstly: the technology is at loggerheads with European privacy legislation, specifically the right to be forgotten. Once something is in the blockchain, it cannot be removed. For instance, hundreds of links to child abuse material and revenge porn were placed in the bitcoin blockchain by malicious users. It’s impossible to remove those.
1st reason for blockchain not being widely implemented: once something is in blockchain, it can't be removed
Out of over 86,000 blockchain projects that had been launched, 92% had been abandoned by the end of 2017, according to consultancy firm Deloitte.
Some sad statistics of blockchain
It’s very slow (sometimes a transaction takes nine minutes, sometimes nine days!), a lot of hassle (try it for yourself – cutting open hard plastic packaging with scissors is more user friendly), and very unstable (its price rose to €17,000 euros; dropped to €3,000; rose again to now €10,000).
Bitcoin transactions are slow & the currency is very unstable
Not only that, but the decentralised utopia that Nakamoto dreamed about, namely avoiding trusted third parties, is still far out of reach. Ironically, there are now three mining pools – a type of company that builds rooms full of servers in Alaska and other locations way up above the Arctic circle – which are responsible for more than half of all the new bitcoin (and also for checking payment requests).
Blockchain isn't also yet fully free from third-parties to check the payments
This is pretty inefficient. And it would be a lot less complicated if you trusted someone to manage your data (a bank, for instance). But that’s not what Satoshi Nakamoto did, which is what the inventor of bitcoin calls himself. He thought banks were bad news. They can make money disappear from your account. So he invented bitcoin. And bitcoin works, it exists, and according to the latest count, there are nearly 1,855 other bitcoin-like currencies out there.
Why bitcoin was created to replace banks
At its core, blockchain is a glorified spreadsheet (think: Excel with one table). In other words, a new way to store data. In traditional databases there’s usually one person who’s in charge, who decides who can access and input data, who can edit and remove it. That’s different in a blockchain. Nobody’s in charge, and you can’t change or delete anything, only view and input data.
Simple explanation of blockchain
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They also noted that the OCEAN contract “contained a pause function for unforeseen emergencies like this one,” which calls into question the claims made by the developers of these protocols who say their platforms are “decentralized.” If they were truly decentralized, then it would not be possible to shut them down, even if there is an emergency.
Yes, kind of not so decentralized ...
Bottom line: Blockchain can help a bit with voting, but it’s not doing the most important part of the work. It doesn’t help tally secret ballots in a publicly verifiable way. It doesn’t provide individual verifiability that a ballot was correctly encoded. And it’s not useful for voting eligibility, since that’s all about human authentication and a centrally produced voter list. At best, in voting, Blockchain can be a ledger that helps us track the voting metadata.
Blockchain can only solve some of the problems that need to be solved in a voting system. Where it falls short:
Then there’s the need to check voter eligibility, a critical piece of global verifiability. No matter what technology we use, we need a clear list of eligible voters, and each voter should get to vote only once. Ultimately, the list of eligible voters is set in a centralized way: it’s produced by the State. There’s nothing distributed about voter eligibility. Even when there is federation / delegation to individual counties, like in the US, there is a centralized effort to cross-check that a voter isn’t registered in multiple counties.
The list of eligible voters is, in the modern nation state, inherently centralized. There's nothing distributed about it.
In a typical election setting with secret ballots, we need: enforced secrecy: a way for each voter to cast a ballot secretly and no way to prove how they voted (lest they be unduly influenced) individual verifiability: a way for each voter to gain confidence that their own vote was correctly recorded and counted. global verifiability: a way for everyone to gain confidence that all votes were correctly counted and that only eligible voters cast a ballot.
The requirements of the ideal voting system are:
Blockchain isn’t just a distributed database, it’s a very specific kind of distributed database where the database maintainers aren’t authenticated: anyone can be a blockchain maintainer without revealing who they are or having any kind of privileged relationship with other maintainers. the set of maintainers changes over time. New maintainers come in, existing maintainers leave, without central planning or predictability. The maintainers of the Bitcoin blockchain 5 years ago are very different from the maintainers today.
Blockchain is a special kind of distributed database. A database where (1) the maintainers are not authenticated and (2) where there is a cycling of maintainers over time.
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quantum blockchain
Do they really use a quantum blockchain? What exactly do they mean by that? Probably just a buzzword they're using to attract interest but aren't actually meaning literally.
A quantum blockchain, the pair suggests, would take advantage of entanglement, which in most cases, applies to situations regarding space. But it could also be useful for situations involving time, such as blockchains. In such a blockchain, the pair explains, transaction records could be represented by pairs of entangled photons linked in chronological order. When transfers take place, photons would be created and absorbed by the hubs that comprise a network. But since entangled photons are linked across time, they can be caused to have never existed at the same time.
When a user in an AWS account creates a blockchain network on Amazon Managed Blockchain, they also create the first member in the network. This first member has no peer nodes associated with it until you create them. After you create the network and the first member, you can use that member to create an invitation proposal for other members in the same AWS account or in other AWS accounts. Any member can create an invitation proposal.
about members of blockchain
This is just the tip of the innovation iceberg in a new deep-truth reality that is here today
In a moment of crisis for truth and trust, it is encouraging to encounter the term deep-truth and may offer a valuable term that is both accessible and powerful in advocating not just against what we despise but for what we hope to see in a better world.
This is just the tip of the innovation iceberg in a new deep-truth reality that is here today
In a moment of crisis for truth and trust, it is encouraging to encounter the term deep-truth and may offer a valuable term that is both accessible and powerful in advocating not just against what we despise but for what we hope to see in a better world.
