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New comment by micropresident in "What I want from the internet"

micropresident — Mon, 08 May 2023 15:14:50 +0000

This can be addressed. Protocols not platforms™. However, these protocols need to have spam mitigation mechanisms built it. We need "RPoW" tokens deployed ubiquitously.

New comment by micropresident in "Privatizing our digital identities"

micropresident — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:44:56 +0000

Spam is the reason. Phone numbers are a costly resource to spammers. Having them permanently banned from Discord after spamming is a way to keep spam down quite a lot.

I've been working on this exact problem for years, and have solved it differently. If anyone is interested, here's the draft whitepaper on my solution: https://www.stampchat.io/whitepaper.pdf

New comment by micropresident in "Will Carbon Replace C++?"

micropresident — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 23:38:02 +0000

C++'s compile times are caused by design issues. Dlang compiles nearly instantaneously (for example). Lack of modules, and abiguities in the syntax are roughly what causes it.

New comment by micropresident in "An incomplete guide to stealth addresses"

micropresident — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 20:09:11 +0000

I've already built a fully working prototype of all of this, and am looking for funding to complete it. It also supports a number of other things such as pay-to-mail that have been talked about for years.

https://web.stampchat.io

New comment by micropresident in "Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes"

micropresident — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 20:01:58 +0000

Tipping is to incentivize personalized, special, service. The proliferation of it is because people forgot what it's for. Don't tip when you're a fungible customer.

New comment by micropresident in "Plastic to Oil – Produces 80% Oil"

micropresident — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 15:24:47 +0000

What are you talking about? This works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization

The carbon without hydrogen produced CO, and it is burned to produce CO2, and that is used to actually heat the mixture.

New comment by micropresident in "Google to reduce workforce by 12k"

micropresident — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 15:01:40 +0000

They're shortsighted fools.

New comment by micropresident in "Incoming potentially catastrophic storm for SF area"

micropresident — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 05:47:13 +0000

My first floor flooded on NYE. I'm not looking forward to Wednesday -- will likely flood again. Going to be a lot of $$$ to repair and fix the drainage.

New comment by micropresident in "Why Solana was decimated by Bankman-Fried’s downfall"

micropresident — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 08:23:11 +0000

Bitcoin can do that many transactions fairly easily with the changes we made for eCash. All the quadratic performance bottlenecks were removed.

New comment by micropresident in "Jack Dorsey Unveils Bluesky Social"

micropresident — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:38:09 +0000

Agree with you. However, Stamp is federated only for encrypted direct messages. The twitter-ish feeds are shared everything, and anyone can spin up a node. Anyone can post anything. Good luck taking it down from all the nodes.

That's the reason for the RPoW tokens, otherwise the platform would collapse from spam/DDoS.

Also, where you accept your DMs can move relatively quickly with the way the system is designed.

New comment by micropresident in "Jack Dorsey Unveils Bluesky Social"

micropresident — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:03:27 +0000

Yup. The UX is going to be tricky. In the system I'm building there's a shared-everything KV store that your client publishes to similar to their system. I've got a system worked out for recovering your account in a decentralized way if a trojan exposes your key. However, I think there will be a need for services that help with this.

New comment by micropresident in "Jack Dorsey Unveils Bluesky Social"

micropresident — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 23:42:46 +0000

This is a step in the right direction. Federated protocols that aren't moderated or controlled by private organizations is critical for free speech -- but I wonder how moderation will be handled on systems like this... It seems inevitable that it will still centralize around hubs which are efficient at keeping spam off, and that inevitably leads to other types of censorship.

I think they're spot on with needing control over your identity, and them being transferable. Being locked into @host.com is a big pitfall of email.

I've been working on a similar federated protocol awhile which integrates Hal Finney's RPoW concept. Moderation isn't federated which is where it diverges from things like mastodon and bluesky.

Instead, you're paid in messaging tokens by the sender to keep spam off the platform. Tokens are free, assuming you don't need mass amounts of them to spam.

I'm hoping to find some other engineers that might be interested to help work on it. Can contact me Stamp at lotus_16PSJPAVocAM5behRWxqwQnpEVRPJrV4XxbthBhJR. (Human readable handles using DIDs are something we need to get working.)

https://web.stampchat.io

New comment by micropresident in "Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community"

micropresident — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 05:31:14 +0000

I've been working on an interesting concept precisely for this sort of thing. It's pay-to-post and DM authors in a decentralized and unmoderated way (moderation happens via the micropayments).

I cross-posted this blog over there:

https://web.stampchat.io/#/forum/014ad3ec1c9c5488af76abf68c7...

New comment by micropresident in "Starship is still not understood"

micropresident — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:00:36 +0000

I am more concerned about the Ozone damage.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/147776209027688...

New comment by micropresident in "Starship is still not understood"

micropresident — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:59:34 +0000

And that book has literally nothing to do with what is being discussed.

New comment by micropresident in "Starship is still not understood"

micropresident — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:56:02 +0000

I would like to know what the Ozone impact these rockets will have is. It's my understanding that they burn quite a bit of the ozone up as they pass through; but my information could be wrong.

New comment by micropresident in "G7 finance officials endorse principles for central bank digital currencies"

micropresident — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 19:59:35 +0000

CBDCs will be an absolute disaster for personal privacy, and personal liberty. Piss off the wrong person in the right position and suddenly there's a "mistake" where you can't function at all in society.

I highly recommend Brett Scott's writing on this subject: https://twitter.com/suitpossum?lang=en

New comment by micropresident in "Ask HN: What are some promising “healthy social media” projects?"

micropresident — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 16:46:27 +0000

I have been working on a decentralized social media platform that uses a token w/o cash value as a reputation and moderation system. The goal is to avoid needing a centralized content moderator. I'd love to chat about it if it sounds interesting.

We're currently using a telegram group chat as groups are still in development, only direct messages work due to complexity around the encryption.

A link to our chat is here: https://t.me/stampchat

A description of how things work is here: https://www.stampchat.io/whitepaper.pdf

New comment by micropresident in "Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres"

micropresident — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 23:52:09 +0000

> At least I had a role in electing the government and can change my vote based on their performance.

The real crux. You want control over what other people do.

New comment by micropresident in "Cryptocurrency Blockchains Don’t Need to Be Energy Intensive"

micropresident — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 17:19:12 +0000

This is a common mistake w/r/t Proof of Work. It doesn't prevent Sybil attacks. The Bitcoin whitepaper performs slight of hand to say "instead of identities, we'll use CPUs" which are obviously what Sybil attacks are in the first place. One person can own lots of CPUs... (Thus mining operations.)

What it does do is make Sybilers larger and larger shareholders in the network to make it so that the more you Sybil the network the less you'd want to try to damage it.