NB: Blockchain Research

Hi All,

I'm a bit embarrassed to highlight my lack of 'insight' about advancements
in blockchain areas; whilst i also seek to illustrate an underlying moral
point/ decision made, about seeking to maintain provenance in a way that
wasn't 'immutable' / advanced, via blockchains specifically.

I've been looking into the 'conspiracy theories' linked to the death of
John McAfee who suggested via a 'tweet'; that if he became 'suicided' (new
& useful term), it wasn't choice and that he had a volume of information
(terabytes) that would be released in any such event...

Whether or not this is going to occur; is kinda beside the point for the
purposes of this note.

In looking into it (fairly sure others on this list have a better idea);
are some learnings.

1. Blockchain Domains[1]

It appears an underlying FAILING of ICANN to support a different 'business
model' around domain ownership / management; whereby someone buys a domain,
and keeps it till it's sold to someone else (free of rents); is being done
via blockchains...

seems the easiest way to use it is via brave browser[2]

2. seems what can then be employed, is a means to use IPFS[3] or similar to
propagate the data, which upon use; becomes increasingly resilient - in
enumerate ways.

There's some consideration that perhaps payload could be broken-up and
stored on a blockchain like ETH - but i don't 'fully' / sufficiently
understand the mechanisms around how this might work; either, as a private
or public resource...

3. implications - 'brave new web'?

there's alot of implications.  The means for people to have a RWW is fairly
'in-built' with a private key, etc.   Seemingly 'metamask'[4] being amongst
the methods that are far more advanced than Beaker Browser[5] as has
previously been explored (by me).

the other implication is the linked association to payments; which kinda
means, it'll better support an eradication of 'web slavery' or 'digital
slavery'; as payments, is seemingly, kinda - built in...

4. Looks like Ethereum is about to 'upgrade'.

I guess - broadly speaking - what are the implications?  What other than
Ethereum works, to build infospheres[7], and what does this more broadly
mean?

5. 'multiverse'
historically, there's been a more 'singular' 'web', that's then 'password
protected' (OAUTH-2 & similar) within major silos (ie: FB, G, Twitter,
etc.) that's done 'at a different level'...

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Seemed to me, that there's some fairly radical implications; that i haven't
been able to 'wrap my head around' easily...  fundamentally, seems to
suggest an underlying assumption that government is untrustworthy, so
migration is required for human rights, at the expense of energy, for the
purpose of preserving 'good'...  or moreover via immutable record, 'rule of
law', as distinct to opportunism by 'powerful actors'?  So, in theory i
guess - the sensor and interaction data between human beings and devices
are streamed to a personal (permissive) ledger immutably; which thereby
provides more 'safety' / 'security' than systems that would otherwise
preserve operational 'trust' frameworks in relation to the behaviours of
other (ie: gov) actors/agents. Thereby also, to some degree seemingly,
supporting the 'self sovereign' kind of 'style', whereby the ledger is
seemingly owned by the individual who is thereby able to employ
'real-world' records in relation to 'lived experiences' in a way; that
doesn't depend at all - on an intermediary who may otherwise be considered
'legally' trustworthy, with the operational systems (as distinct to tech
systems) equipped to be accountability equipped to do its job - without
such a form of energy expenditure, to mediate 'error rates' (wrongs)...

In anycase; this appears to be a RWW environment, as it seems to assume
support for causality; as may be extended by consideration to support the
concept of a persons 'reality' (or 'universe') and in-turn the ability to
create 'linkages' to what be defined (temporally, dynamically, etc.) as
'our reality'...

are there quantum secure blockchains? how are 'linked data' schema applied?

Is there any point in doing W3C work on it - or do we just NFT[8] it?

how are 'causal links' applied historically (ie: when a person 'finds out',
to denote 'learned knowledge')?

where are the leaders of software & Application development in this area?
USA? CHINA?  EUROPE?   would be good to learn more....

Cheers.

Timothy Holborn

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=eth+domains
[2] https://brave.com/
[3] https://ipfs.io/
[4] https://metamask.io/
[5] https://beakerbrowser.com/
[6] https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infosphere
[8]
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/this-changed-everything-source-code-for-www-x-tim-berners-lee-an-nft/