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ivoras (45)in #censorship • 7 years ago
Modern Corporate Machine Learning Censorship
I can't be the only one who is both disgusted and concerned how in this day and age of rampant interconnectivity and unprecedented opportunity for creativity, many of the voices…
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ivoras (45)in #futurism • 7 years ago
Augmented natives
A colleague of mine shared a story which happened recently with his young daughter (around 6yo) in a car: - Daddy, daddy, play the "aweem-ba-we aweem-ba-we" song! I can't…
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ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 7 years ago
Blockchain's present opportunity: data interchange standardisation
No matter what the future of private blockchains might be, their best current use case is in the standardization of communication between various, likely disparate organisations.…
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ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 7 years ago
Blockchain without blockchain
I was talking with a colleague today about practical applications of blockchains outside cryptocurrencies, and he defended the opinion that blockchain is nowadays used more than…
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ivoras (45)in #blockhain • 8 years ago
PoW algorithm from hell
Just a thought, and excuse me if it has already been done: memory sizes on ASICs are growing (as well as on FPGAs and GPUs) and logic transistors are extremely cheap. The next…
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ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 8 years ago
Blockchain "pull"
As a pet project, I've been working on putting Wikipedia on my blockchain implementation named "Daisy." Since Daisy is a Proof-of-Authority blockchain whose blocks are SQLite…
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ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 8 years ago
Putting Wikipedia on the blockchain
There's this pet project I have, the Daisy blockchain, which uses SQLite databases as blocks. Literally, each block is a completely normal SQLite database and can be accessed…
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ivoras (45)in #money • 8 years ago
The Nature of Money
Opinions are like arseholes: everybody has one. -- Anonymous Some time ago I sat down to write an article about what, to my personal and subjective understanding, money is. It…
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ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 8 years ago
Sharing state among incompatible blockchains
tl;dr: We can create a system where account state (e.g. all data associated with an address, including balance, tokens, etc.) regularly migrates between blockchains. The point…
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ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 8 years ago
Creating a custom private SQL blockchain with Daisy
Daisy, my PoA blockchain where blocks are SQLite databases, is a bit over a year old by now, and it's gaining features mostly on as-needed basis. Patches and contributors are…
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ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 8 years ago
Blockchains & AI
I did a lecture early this year to students of the local technical college, with the topic of futurism in the context of the blockchain and aiming to inspire young minds to think…
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ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 8 years ago
Private blockchains vs other databases part 2: The business perspective
tl;dr: If your project doesn't specifically benefit from a feature which is only offered by blockchains, save yourself the effort and the pain and use a regular database. This…
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ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 8 years ago
Private blockchains vs other databases part 1: The tech perspective
tl;dr: If your project doesn't specifically benefit from a feature which is only offered by blockchains, save yourself the effort and the pain and use a regular database. As an…
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ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 8 years ago
On the impossibility of replacing social consensus with technical consensus
tl;dr: "free will". There's this picture floating around the net these days: It's presented in the positive light, like replacing social consensus with technical consensus is…
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ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 8 years ago
On customised distributed consensus - the "firmware" of blockchains
While working on something (a project named Equinox, in fact. Stay tuned.), I needed to re-think why a blockchain solution is needed at all, and to figure out how to actively use…
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ivoras (45)in #cryptocurrency • 8 years ago
How to get out of the cryptogeddon
As I've written before, everyone who had the interest and the opportunity to buy cryptocurrencies has done so. And since most people's first (& only) experience with cryptos was…
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ivoras (45)in #cryptocurrency • 8 years ago
Small Fry Blues
It's fair to say the cryptocurrency community has an idea going which is present since the very beginnings (indeed in the Bitcoin's Genesis block), that the cryptocurrencies are…
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ivoras (45)in #bitcoin • 8 years ago
The best chance for cryptocurrency price recovery is if they've actually used as currencies
Basically, everyone who wanted to get Bitcoin (and / or other cryptocurrencies) has already bought it. The cat's out of the bag, everyone and their hairdresser have discussed…
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ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 8 years ago
Blockchain learning resources
Where to learn about blockchain development Blockchains are a popular topic, hot both for developers and for businesses trying to integrate or adapt the technology to their…
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ivoras (45)in #blockchain • 8 years ago
About Daisy: the blockchain where blocks are SQL databases
For some time now, I've been working on Daisy, a proof-of-authority where blocks are SQLite databases. I think this is a good approach for applications which would benefit from…
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