- From: David Nicol <davidnicol@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 13:22:50 -0500
- To: Adrian Hope-Bailie <adrian@hopebailie.com>
- Cc: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>, Web Payments <public-webpayments@w3.org>
use http://www.libtorrent.org/dht_store.html to store a verified ledger. Start by adapting the BTC blockchain to dht_store access. Devise a mechanism for trusting providers of cached ledger query responses. > What is missing is a decentralised data store that can serve as the registry > for these identities. The Credentials CG has proposed Telehash as this > data-store. > The challenge is that one then has to be explicit in defining the discovery > protocol as to which decentralised data store to use. > If someone proposed the namecoin block-chain as an alternative how do we > decide which to use? > Who will the stewards of this decentralised data store? > Is there an architecture for this data store that would be rubber-stamped by > the W3C as a cornerstone for dependent recommendations? > (Here I am trying to think of an architecture that incentivises participants > to maintain the network assuming that financial incentives aren't practical)
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