The Gridcoin Fireside #18 - Blockchains: Moving Beyond the Trust-Based Model
The Gridcoin Fireside #18
Blockchains: Moving Beyond the Trust-Based Model
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Recorded on August 29th
Blockchains: Moving Beyond the Trust-Based Model
In this episode we discuss how blockchain technology presents an alternative to the trust-based model of not only finance, but any protocol, process, or organization that relies on arbiters of trust.
While the [electronic payments] system works well enough for most transactions, it still suffers from the inherent weaknesses of the trust based model.
What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party.
- Satoshi Nakamoto
Trust is a complex natural protocol that enables social interaction between individuals. It largely depends on a biological function drawn from a tribal library. It is difficult to maintain a natural web of trust beyond 100-200 individual people. This creates logical problems including tribalism and prejudice.
To overcome these problems, human societies manufactured protocols and processes that manage trust across large webs of individuals. For thousands of years, technological limitations demanded these protocols and processes be managed by people -- by arbiters of trust. In solving the problems of the tribal model, this trust-based model creates a significant problem: arbiters of trust hold incredible power.
Cypherpunks, crypto-anarchists, and others claim that a digital future secured by cryptography is the solution to this ancient problem. The Bitcoin blockchain was the first successful implementation of their proposed solution.
| Time | Subject |
|---|---|
| 1:05 | News Gridcoin 4.0.5 "Elizabeth Release" Gridcoin.World Proposal Call for BOINC teams to help test the team requirement removals LHC@home Back on the whitelist DHEP off the whitelist Cruncher Sans Frontier Thor Challenge Janksy Fellowship I buy memes for the GridcoinMemes twitter TXBit Listing SwapSpace listing SotN Report Gridcoin Monthly Report Nicehash to Gridcoin converter Gridcoin+Steem basic income |
| 18:00 | Opening Discussion Eric Hughes - Cypher Punk Manifesto Tim May - Crypto Anarchy Manifest Bitcoin Whitepaper |
| 19:45 | Tribal -> Trust -> Cryptographically based systems |
| 24:00 | Trust, science, and why to build alternatives |
| 28:45 | Multi-currency future |
| 30:30 | Satoshi's perspective |
| 31:45 | Communities of trust |
| 34:00 | Alterative alternatives |
| 36:00 | Reality |
| 43:45 | Oracles, Trust, and Science |
| 55:15 | Closing comments |
What is Gridcoin?
Gridcoin is a multi-incentive permissionless blockchain initiated in 2013. It mints and distributes cryptocurrency in relation to the processing power a network participant directs toward data-driven analysis and scientific discovery, as well as through a proof-of-stake reward mechanism. The Gridcoin blockchain monitors processing contributions to the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Networked Computing (BOINC). BOINC hosts major institutional computing projects such as IBM’s World Community Grid, SETI, and CERN, alongside projects developed by students, enthusiasts, mathematicians, researchers, and citizen scientists. Access to Gridcoin's computation resources is free, while computation contributors are incentivized with cryptocurrency minted by the Gridcoin protocol.
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