From f249adda03036d8ae09bc4dd89954c7d8b46c00c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "reaction.la" Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2023 19:20:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added discussion of recent history of the cold start problem. modified: docs/manifesto/social_networking.md Discussion of gpg has been obsoleted by by git adding its own trust mechanism to deal with the trust problems of gpg. modified: docs/rootDocs/README.md modified: docs/setup/contributor_code_of_conduct.md --- docs/manifesto/social_networking.md | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++-- docs/rootDocs/README.md | 3 +- docs/setup/contributor_code_of_conduct.md | 23 +------------ 3 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/manifesto/social_networking.md b/docs/manifesto/social_networking.md index e6f0ea2..c812b84 100644 --- a/docs/manifesto/social_networking.md +++ b/docs/manifesto/social_networking.md @@ -1105,6 +1105,44 @@ people will start Sovcorps. So to get a foot in the door, we have to cherry pick and snipe little areas where the big network is failing, and once we have a foot in the door, then we can get rolling. +### failure of previous altcoins to succeed in this strategy + +During the last decade, numberless altcoins have attempted to compete with +Bitcoin, and they all got crushed, because the differences between them and +Bitcoin really did not matter that much. + +They failed to differentiate themselves from bitcoin. They could +not find a niche in which to start. + +Ether did OK, because they supported smart contracts and bitcoin did not, +but now that bitcoin has some limited smart contract capability, +they are going down too, because bitcoin has the big network advantage. + +Being the biggest, it is far more convertible into goods and services +than any other. Which means ether is doomed now that bitcoin is +doing smart contracts. + +Monero did OK, because it is the leading privacy coin. It has a niche, but +cannot break out of the not very large niche. Because its privacy mechanism means it is +a worse bitcoin than bitcoin in other respects. + +And the cold start problem means we cannot directly take over that niche either. + +But our proposed privacy mechanism means we have a tech advantage over both +Bitcoin and Monero - better contract capability than Bitcoin or Ether, because +a snark can prove fulfillment of a contract that without burdening the network +with a costly proof of fulfillment, and without revealing everything to the +network, and without the rest of the network needing to know what that +contract is or be able to evaluate it. Because of its privacy mechanism, +Monero cannot do contracts, which prevents atomic exchange between Monero +and Bitcoin, and prevents Monero from doing a lightning network that would +enable fast atomic exchange between itself and other networks. + +So if we get a niche, get differentiation from Monero and Bitcoin, +we can then break out of that niche and eat Monero, being a better +privacy coin, a better Monero, and from the Monero niche eat Bitcoin, +being, unlike Monero, a better Bitcoin. + ### Bitmessage The lowest hanging fruit of all, (because, unfortunately, there is @@ -1124,8 +1162,8 @@ a little closer to the faint smell of money. So we create a currency. But because it will be created on sovcorp model people cannot obtain it by proof of work - they have to buy it. Which will require gateways between bitcoin lightning and the currency supported by -by the network, and gateways between the conversations on the network and -nostr. +by the network, supporting atomic lightning exchange +and gateways between the conversations on the network and nostr. # Development sequence diff --git a/docs/rootDocs/README.md b/docs/rootDocs/README.md index c0da4f7..e503d50 100644 --- a/docs/rootDocs/README.md +++ b/docs/rootDocs/README.md @@ -93,7 +93,8 @@ which should be in a repository that only allows signed commits. Git now has a bunch of hooks that are accessed through config entries starting with `gpg.` that potentially allow us to supply zooko names -for git signed commits.〕 +for git signed commits.〕You can sign a file or a commit, and +`https://github.com/USERNAME.keys` is a central name authority. This may be inconvenient if you do not have `gpg` installed and set up. diff --git a/docs/setup/contributor_code_of_conduct.md b/docs/setup/contributor_code_of_conduct.md index b434dce..1fcdae9 100644 --- a/docs/setup/contributor_code_of_conduct.md +++ b/docs/setup/contributor_code_of_conduct.md @@ -261,25 +261,4 @@ speaks the truth under their true name. Web of trust was designed for a high trust society - but in a high trust society you don't need it, and in a low trust society, the name servers were too vulnerable to enemy action, and died, leaving the Web of Trust user -interface in every installed copy of gpg a useless obstacle to people -trying to use gpg. - -Never `‑‑sign` any Gpg key related to this project. `‑‑lsign` it. - -`gitconfig` disallows merges unless you have told `gpg` to trust the -public key corresponding to the private key that signed the tip of -the root. So part of the pull request process is getting the puller to -trust your public key, and you will not be able to pull updates -unless you tell `gpg` to trust the key that is in the root directory as -`public_key.gpg`. - -Never check any Gpg key related to this project against a public -gpg key repository. It should not be there. - -`gitconfig` disallows merges unless you have told `gpg` to trust the public -key corresponding to the private key that signed the tip of the root. So part -of the pull request process is getting the puller to trust your public key, and -you will not be able to pull updates unless you tell `gpg` to trust the key that -is in the root directory as `public_key.gpg`. - -`.gitconfig` also imposes a whitespace style. +interface in every installed copy of gpg a useless obstacle.