Torrenting Sketch
We could add a reputation credit system for torrenting with each actor maintaining a list of past seeds, or “part proofs.” The length of this list, the number of file parts you have seeded to others, is essentially your reputation credit score. In order for this list to be verifiable, we would need each item to be signed by the leecher’s private key so that, with access to the public key via a key server, anyone can verify the seeder - call them Peggy, truly did seed the part. There is no inc...
Torrenting Sketch
We could add a reputation credit system for torrenting with each actor maintaining a list of past seeds, or “part proofs.” The length of this list, the number of file parts you have seeded to others, is essentially your reputation credit score. In order for this list to be verifiable, we would need each item to be signed by the leecher’s private key so that, with access to the public key via a key server, anyone can verify the seeder - call them Peggy, truly did seed the part. There is no inc...
Zero-Knowledge Waldo
Let’s play a game.Not that kind! The fun kind! Specifically, “Where’s Waldo?” I remember sitting in the dentist office as a kid, dreading what was to come, and finding comfort in the games and toys they had in the waiting room. One such game was a book of “Where’s Waldo?” As my mom flipped through magazines (this was before smartphones), I sat there with a furrowed brow and hunched back intently scanning every point of the page. And although those days are long gone now, I find myself returni...
Zero-Knowledge Waldo
Let’s play a game.Not that kind! The fun kind! Specifically, “Where’s Waldo?” I remember sitting in the dentist office as a kid, dreading what was to come, and finding comfort in the games and toys they had in the waiting room. One such game was a book of “Where’s Waldo?” As my mom flipped through magazines (this was before smartphones), I sat there with a furrowed brow and hunched back intently scanning every point of the page. And although those days are long gone now, I find myself returni...
The Everlasting Gift of Boredom
Trends are a quintessential part of the human experience, whether we think of them as trends or not. Although the word is most associated with fashion, it exists in every field and profession out there. I can speak for programmers and software developers from personal experience. I remember when jQuery was labelled “trendy,” years before React took the crown. But even more abstract principles, like object-oriented programming and the DRY dogma could be considered trends, albeit with much long...
The Everlasting Gift of Boredom
Trends are a quintessential part of the human experience, whether we think of them as trends or not. Although the word is most associated with fashion, it exists in every field and profession out there. I can speak for programmers and software developers from personal experience. I remember when jQuery was labelled “trendy,” years before React took the crown. But even more abstract principles, like object-oriented programming and the DRY dogma could be considered trends, albeit with much long...
The Web3 Detox
Our world is digitally addicted. I do mean our world too, not just America. In countless countries around the globe, internet usage has been rising to levels unsustainable for all but the biggest tech giants for a decade. As of Q3 2021, there are four million Twitter events per second, 2.81 billion daily active Meta users, and four billion daily Discord server conversation minutes. While the internet has enabled communication and productivity hitherto unimagined, with great power does not alw...
The Web3 Detox
Our world is digitally addicted. I do mean our world too, not just America. In countless countries around the globe, internet usage has been rising to levels unsustainable for all but the biggest tech giants for a decade. As of Q3 2021, there are four million Twitter events per second, 2.81 billion daily active Meta users, and four billion daily Discord server conversation minutes. While the internet has enabled communication and productivity hitherto unimagined, with great power does not alw...
