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The article is really interesting! I appreciate the decision of the Bank of England to conduct a study on cryptographic currencies and to introduce a national cryptocurrency by next year. Digital currencies continue to generate excitement these days....
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Ditto @rob's message - wishing everyone happy holidays. @Cryptonaut you been adding tons of great features and it's time you took a breather. Peace and goodwill to all :)
Ther's no precedent that I know of for private registration being used as justification for domain seizure, but I still think someone will test it one of these days. Most experts I know disagree FWIW.
Enforcement of the requirement to have current and accurate WHOIS info is hardly limited to the .au registry though. It's very common in the ccTLDs - the country code domains, where nations are given wide latitude to operate as they see fit. The registry and registrar functions are often handled by the same governmental agency. It happens often at the hands of registrars too, including the biggest registrars of all.
Speaking of big registrars, I do think the best strategy for a domain name you're using to make money from is to start an LLC (very cheap) and avoid disclosing your personal contact info by listing the company info instead. At the very least, you'll be spared having your email address harvested by spambots.
Your company's name should be on the title, so to speak, and not the name of some registrar. What would you do if someone hacked into 1&1 Internet AG and changed the entry in their database to show that someone else was the rightful registrant of your domain name? You might scramble to prove your claim, while your name was transferred offshore.
Just like in the case of domain thefts, the registrars could be required to keep track of how many domain names are seized, and for what reason. But ICANN feels no pressure to appease the ranks of the individual registrants. We contribute most of the revenue that ICANN enjoys, but have no significant impact on policy making. Namecoin was the Boston Tea Party of Internet governance, and now the revolution spreads. People really can have a naming system that is free and fair.
Happens quite often. But this onerous ICANN requirement is selectively enforced. It's an easy excuse for a registry operator to seize a domain name, as often happens with the .au (Australia) registry. GoDaddy and other registrars have a long history of doing this also.
Technically speaking, anyone who uses a "private registration service" is in violation of this requirement as well in my view, although it could be argued that the rightful registrant is really the privacy registration company, and NOT the registrant; i.e. you don't really own the rights to that domain any more.
That little bitcoin startup lost its nice domain name now due to this ridiculous technicality. It's akin to having your home auctioned off because the title to the property has some inaccuracy on it.
"Bitcoin.com.au sells for $31,200 as owner loses the domain due to bad registrant info" http://www.thedomains.com/2014/11/25/bitcoin-com-au-sells-for-31200-as-owner-loses-the-domain-due-to-bad-registrant-info/
ICANN requires all domain name registrants to maintain accurate WHOIS contact information. Individual registrants are the real losers in the current system, which favors corporate and national interests above actual people, and it's getting worse.
WHOIS requirements are an oppressive method by which ICANN gives more power to corporate interests at the expense of individual registrants. The requirements are enforced arbitrarily, and are an affront to the basic notion that anyone can register and use a domain name. This is the 21st century version of free speech. It's important.
Use and support decentralized DNS - improve security, enhance privacy and remove the politics from the administration of our shared Internet!
@cryptonaut I think you should reconsider basing anything on how many LTBcoin a user has. As soon as there's a viable and trustworthy offline storage alternatives to the web wallet at counterparty.io everyone should consider moving all longer term holdings there in order to gain more control over their tokens. Rewarding based on how much is kept in a hot wallet sounds like a temporary solution at best.
Reputation is surely a better metric to use. If my posts have been "liked" 100 times, I have sufficient rep to "like" others' posts such that they earn a little LTBC. Perhaps some combo of writing posts and having them liked?
Any time there's an interesting topic or guest, I'm listening to the content. I can't keep up with all that goes on, so I enjoy hearing the interviews, presentations, rants and raves, and offhand commentary. There is one series on this network that I do not enjoy, so I don't even bother listening any more. Personally I don't feel like it's worthwhile to scan through there looking for the magic word, and so I just don't collect the listener reward for this one show. Not a biggie.
As far as I can reckon, you can sign or encrypt digital assets only, if you're using digital tools. So in order to sign, say, a tree, you would have to settle for signing a digital representation of said tree. In that sense you can digitally sign a file representing a person's DNA sequence, but it's not quite the same as signing a living human.
Don't think this is what you had in mind, but sure, if you wanted to (non-digitally) sign a letter - stick your finger in ink and put a fingerprint over the seal, as they used to do with wax.
Is building bulky layers of duct tape and bungee cords on top of Bitcoin really the way forward?
so is http just a bulky layer of duct tape on top of tcp/ip?
Not so bulky, no. Ma Bell and others kept trying to build smart networks for many years, maybe they still do. They kept insisting there's no reason we can't stuff all the fancy features in there. But a generic transport layer is the most useful, devoid of any intelligence except what's actually needed to route traffic. They wanted to bake some of the HTTP functionality into the transport layer! In fact, they knew that everything could be stuffed into the networking layer. Doesn't mean it should though.
If they built a network that knew all about email and FTP and BitTorrent and so on, would it be better? Well in some ways life would be easier. But our Internet would be brittle. This is not a good design.
Ethereum has the same philosophy - They're all about that chain, 'bout that chain, no features. For people to imagine and create the next generation gee-whiz Dapps, they could really use a featureless chain, built for applications. The right tool for the job. Dapps'll be primitive until they start to be developed on the 2.0 platforms; low-hanging fruit only IMHO.
I know you weren't really talking about Dapps or DAOs, but only smart contracts. They can be done on any chain, even Bitcoin, if you grunt hard enough. But we clearly need something more suitable for running applications on. We can try to make Bitcoin be all things to all people, but it won't be good at all of it. That's my 2 millibits :)
awesome work!
I'm not convinced this is even going to be significant, let alone important. Change the world by strapping on a half-assed port of an unfinished product that may not even work? Perhaps.
Is building bulky layers of duct tape and bungee cords on top of Bitcoin really the way forward? For smart property, it seems likely. There are few requirements, only a minimal amount of storage. For smart, distributed apps, I think not. These will evolve into smart, dynamic systems, and their design will naturally evolve on the more expressive platforms.
But my crystal ball got lost, I could be totally wrong...
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While most altcoins are getting slaughtered, LTC shines propelled higher by Litepay and a new fork. Bitcoin continues its gains as well but stopped short of a new rally. Bitcoin Higher but Stops Short of New Rally Bitcoin prices traded even higher si...
sessin
The article is really interesting! I appreciate the decision of the Bank of England to conduct a study on cryptographic currencies and to introduce a national cryptocurrency by next year. Digital currencies continue to generate excitement these days....
andref
Ether is trading lower versus bitcoin this week. The crypto has lost 12 percent to big brother since Monday as BTC is the preferred crypto this week. Dash on the other hand continues to trade in a range. Ether Down 12 Percent As we mentioned above, E...
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