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Re: A discussion forum in the Bitcoin blockchain

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Post by cJ0th »

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…

That's an optimistic take on it. I could imagine that there will be companies who score the personality development of a person for HR departments.

Re: A discussion forum in the Bitcoin blockchain

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Post by logicallee »

na85 wrote: post #19
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...

Notwithstanding the bandwidth and storage costs associated with downloading an maintaining a multi-GB blockchain.

A quick note: I don't know what you think it means, but the word "notwithstanding" as a preposition means exactly "in spite of" or "despite" (even when it comes after the words it modifies.) It sounds like you're using it as "to say nothing of"...

Re: A discussion forum in the Bitcoin blockchain

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Post by alkonaut »

thescriptkiddie wrote: post #20
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...

Requiring proof of work to make forum posts could seriously cut down on spam.

Yeah. But the proof of I'm-Not-a-robot is usually a simpler captcha or image task. Preventing low quality posts by humans is probably easier with voting, flagging, minimum message lengths, minimum interval between posting etc.

Re: A discussion forum in the Bitcoin blockchain

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Post by clarkmoody »

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...

> I mean it's nearly indefensible to even add an energy overhead to financial transactions

Come on now. How much energy is devoted to securing the traditional financial system? I'm talking about buildings, personnel, armored vehicles, weapons, lawyers, courts, etc.

Other blockchains are secured by different mechanisms than proof-of-work, and research is ongoing into more efficient ways of achieving distributed consensus.

Re: A discussion forum in the Bitcoin blockchain

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Post by runeks »

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...

Bitcoin miners "mine on" the Merkle tree root hash of all the transactions in a block. Therefore, the amount of transaction data does not affect the amount of energy expanded.

However, as block space is limited, actually using the Bitcoin blockchain as a discussion forum is prohibitively expensive, because miners only want to include the highest fee-transactions.

Re: A discussion forum in the Bitcoin blockchain

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Post by bredren »

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…

This is also the opinion of Back to the Future writer Bob Gale. See his comments on privacy here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/21/how-back-to...

Re: A discussion forum in the Bitcoin blockchain

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Post by throwaway2016a »

forgotpwtomain wrote: post #14
throwaway2016a wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

You can send bitmessages that are entirely public as well see 'Chans'.

Thank you for clarifying. I did not realize that. I have a bunch of questions but I won't turn this into Reddit :) I'll just go off and research

Re: A discussion forum in the Bitcoin blockchain

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Post by pavel_lishin »

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 flipside is searching for an obscure technical problem or bug, and finding a link to a forum that claims to have a solution... only to have the server respond with a 404, or timing out entirely, or seeing a parked domain.

The 14 year olds of tomorrow will learn not to shitpost under an easily identifiable alias, the employers of tomorrow will learn that a decade old "GGEZ" doesn't disqualify someone from employment, and the me of tomorrow might be able to finally figure out this piece of software doesn't work.

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