blockchain

[David Bovill]

Yes - I've been interested in Livecode and blockchain for a couple of years
now. I've been following Ethereum since the beginning - we tried to make a
documentary about the project and I went to DevCon 1 in Berlin as the team
started it's development.

There is an interesting online Hackathon in November if any Livecoders are
interested in taking part / forming a team?

On 18 August 2016 at 01:27, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
wrote:

> Jerry Daniels wrote:
>
> > On Aug 17, 2016, 5:12 PM -0500, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> >>
> >> What is the business benefit for this application to go P2P rather
> >> than client-server?
> >
> > Richard, cost savings, security, privacy. Costs are drastically
> > reduced without hosting and its (hidden) labor/maintenance. Just
> > think about the long record of exploitation of hosted SQL data.
> > Not in the models were discussing here.
>
> I like the idea* of P2P for some applications, but with the explosion of
> cloud services the client-server model seems to have merit as well.
>
> On the one hand, there are the risks of managing (hopefully redundant)
> server farms.  On the other hand there are the risks of having every client
> also be a server, but without a team of professionals hardening and
> monitoring it.
>
> All systems are hackable.  Ideally prevention, monitoring, and recovery
> are budgeted for in the business plan with any architecture.
>
> I believe there's a role for both client-server and P2P, and federated
> models as well.  Each has its own benefits and tradeoffs; like programming
> languages, there'll always be more because use cases where they can add
> value only grow and diversify.
>
> Back to blockchains, from my reading it's becoming clear that the
> distributed trust is a compelling feature, along with the increased speed
> with which transaction ledgers can be conveyed faithfully.  Like the early
> days of railroads, networks outside of Bitcoin employ different standards,
> each with its own kinks to work out but worth the effort. Over time it
> seems likely they'll impact global quality of life as significantly as the
> invention of compound interest.
>
> Lots to learn....
>
>
> > Richard, Mike...sorry for my butting in here. Feel free to ignore my
> > interruption.
>
> Au contraire, mon ami.  Always good to have you around.
>
>
>
> * I've been paranoid for years, and enjoying Mr. Robot has only made that
> worse. :)  For the last several years I've run my main laptop and
> workstation with no open ports (easy to do with Ubuntu since it ships that
> way; took some work to harden my Mac). This has meant that as eagerly as I
> used to visit openp2p.com and read the other things, these days P2P is an
> interesting set of ideas but not something I focus on; all collaboration
> systems here use only outbound connections.
>
>
> --
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Systems
>  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
>  ____________________________________________________________________
>  Ambassador at FourthWorld.com                http://www.FourthWorld.com
>
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