A discussion forum in the Bitcoin blockchain

Post by wslh » Fri, Mar 03, 2017, 2:25 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #4

wslh wrote: post #3

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"You cannot make a post while messages are pending (Post sequence number: 282 is currently pending confirmation in the Bitcoin Blockchain" Using the Bitcoin blockchain for forums is a really bad decision: high fees, tiny data buffer, high confirmation times. These are the kind of decisions that kill your project from the beginning.

I'm not sure about whether or not that isn't a good thing though. The quality of the bits tends to go up as they become more scarce. Compare the telegraph of old with todays internet.

Post by forgotpwtomain » Fri, Mar 03, 2017, 2:34 PM UTC

throwaway2016a wrote: post #10

forgotpwtomain wrote: post #6

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Why wouldn't they just embed the hash of the message, or even the hash of a chain of messages? (AFAIK people have been doing this for a while for other applications). There was a much more sensible attempt at this with bitmessage [0] but anonymity and security guarantees are hard, and everyone receives everything is a really expensive strategy for a messaging protocol. tl:dr those that don't research prior work are b…

I'm not sure this is the same thing. Bitmessage has a different use case (person to person messages).

Post by esseti » Fri, Mar 03, 2017, 2:42 PM UTC

pdgwien wrote: post #2

This seems to belong to Locked Post[1], a "free, anonymous, secure, uncensorable, decentralised and eternal post board". [1]: https://lockedpost.com/

Post by smhost » Fri, Mar 03, 2017, 2:52 PM UTC

jMyles wrote: post #11

throwaway2016a wrote: post #9

I don't see what the appeal is on having a permanent message board. Certainly almost everyone who has spent a lot of time online has said something that they wish they could take offline. I think what we really need is more transience in online discussions. If I said something when I was 14 years old that shouldn't come up when an employer searches for me. I was a completely different person then. Heck, that's why I…

The fact that today's 14 year old are most certainly creating records which will be viewed in the future is incontrovertible. The result will be, I think, that employers (and other decision makers) will learn not to judge someone for comments made when they were 14. The fact that our lives are increasingly documented means that we'll all have to be less judgmental about our shared weaknesses and growing pains, and th…

Post by thescriptkiddie » Fri, Mar 03, 2017, 3:06 PM UTC

alkonaut wrote: post #17

Isn't bitcoin and other blockchains validated by "proof-of-work", meaning a nontrivial amount of energy is required to post something to this discussion forum? I mean it's nearly indefensible to even add an energy overhead to financial transactions, but this...