ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 15 days agoHow to overcome the distributed blockchain performance problemI've found yet another naive question about why current blockchains are slow, and if any blockchain can ever be fast…ivoras (45)in #web3 • 2 years agoProblems we don't want to solve - decentralisation and the free lunchAs is appropriate for this time of year, yesterday my sister started enthusiastically describing a new app by the…ivoras (45)in #rant • 3 years agoWhy I absolutely hate my Roomba E5This has been a rant long in the making. In short, I often visualise destroying my Roomba E5 device in a way similar…ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 4 years agoPerpetual DAO businesses, marketplaces and crypto black boxesWe are technologically very close to a future where there are web-based businesses which exist only on the blockchain…ivoras (45)in #censorship • 5 years agoModern Corporate Machine Learning CensorshipI can't be the only one who is both disgusted and concerned how in this day and age of rampant interconnectivity and…ivoras (45)in #futurism • 5 years agoAugmented nativesA colleague of mine shared a story which happened recently with his young daughter (around 6yo) in a car: - Daddy…ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 5 years agoBlockchain's present opportunity: data interchange standardisationNo matter what the future of private blockchains might be, their best current use case is in the standardization of…ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 5 years agoBlockchain without blockchainI was talking with a colleague today about practical applications of blockchains outside cryptocurrencies, and he…ivoras (45)in #blockhain • 6 years agoPoW algorithm from hellJust a thought, and excuse me if it has already been done: memory sizes on ASICs are growing (as well as on FPGAs and…ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 6 years agoBlockchain "pull"As a pet project, I've been working on putting Wikipedia on my blockchain implementation named "Daisy." Since Daisy is…ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 6 years agoPutting Wikipedia on the blockchainThere's this pet project I have, the Daisy blockchain, which uses SQLite databases as blocks. Literally, each block is…ivoras (45)in #money • 6 years agoThe Nature of MoneyOpinions are like arseholes: everybody has one. -- Anonymous Some time ago I sat down to write an article about what…ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 6 years agoSharing state among incompatible blockchainstl;dr: We can create a system where account state (e.g. all data associated with an address, including balance…ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 6 years agoCreating a custom private SQL blockchain with DaisyDaisy, my PoA blockchain where blocks are SQLite databases, is a bit over a year old by now, and it's gaining features…ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 6 years agoBlockchains & AII did a lecture early this year to students of the local technical college, with the topic of futurism in the context…ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 6 years agoPrivate blockchains vs other databases part 2: The business perspectivetl;dr: If your project doesn't specifically benefit from a feature which is only offered by blockchains, save yourself…ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 6 years agoPrivate blockchains vs other databases part 1: The tech perspectivetl;dr: If your project doesn't specifically benefit from a feature which is only offered by blockchains, save yourself…ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 6 years agoOn the impossibility of replacing social consensus with technical consensustl;dr: "free will". There's this picture floating around the net these days: It's presented in the positive light…ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 6 years agoOn customised distributed consensus - the "firmware" of blockchainsWhile working on something (a project named Equinox, in fact. Stay tuned.), I needed to re-think why a blockchain…ivoras (45)in #cryptocurrency • 6 years agoHow to get out of the cryptogeddonAs I've written before, everyone who had the interest and the opportunity to buy cryptocurrencies has done so. And…
