RE: Tauchain is not easy to understand but here are some concepts to know to track Ohad's progress
Tau is not a coin. TML is a new language. Like how HTML was a language which allowed for the birth of the WWW. TML is a Meta Language which will allow for an advance on a similar scope as the birth of the WWW. Bitcoin isn't a programming language and is an app. Bitcoin is a great app, but as an app it can be implemented in any language including TML. So now you see the distinction?
Ethereum has a smart contract language called Solidity. Tezos has a smart contract language as well but designed to be more secure. EOS and Cardano will also provide progammability. None of these languages are as powerful or has as much flexibility as TML. So the first goal of Ohad is to produce the best possible language from which to write apps in and then Agoras will be the first app after Tauchain itself.
Tauchain is not Tau. Tauchain is to be written in TML. There are competitors and the main competitors are Cardano and EOS. EOS in specific utilizes Web Assembly but this in my opinion has a lot of unknown risks in and of itself. The problem with EOS and Cardano is that expertise is centralized around core developers. You have to be an expert to do certain things. The advantage TML will have is you will not have to be an expert.
Remember, Tauchain is not a Coin, it's not even a cryptocurrency. Tauchain is more important than cryptocurrency. TML is to be the language Tauchain will be written in.
This is informative, thanks.
This is why the talk of compilers.
Will TML, tauchain, agoras, offer both anonymity and the ability to be a verified individual? Will it offer access to the darkweb? Will it offer the ability to organize into groups similar to B. Brown's Pursuance Project?
Ultimately I am most concerned about the current extreme difficulty in verifying anything and the current ease with which powerful, wealthy interests subvert every citizen effort, preventing any individual from having any power whatsoever other than their function in a system that is more machine than human.
Like, I thought when I woke up this morning, how hard would it be for spooks to create some mythical coder as a story to wrap up their next DARPA release.
I am quite frankly having a difficulty believing anything on the internet at the moment, is assange assange? Is segwit good or bad? Has a single actual human read my blog?
We are truly in age of crisis as pertains to the individual human's attempt to understand the world.