- From: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 21:22:07 +0000
- To: Alexandre Monnin <alexandre.monnin@web-and-philosophy.org>
- Cc: public-wwca@w3.org, Gordana Halavanja <gordana@co-operating.systems>, "public-philoweb@w3.o" <public-philoweb@w3.org>
> On 27 Jan 2016, at 20:28, alexandre.monnin@web-and-philosophy.org wrote: > > Hi Henry, > > Le Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:09:35 +0100, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> a écrit: > >> Hi, >> >> I'd be very interested in research on the sustainability of bitcoin and blockchain. >> This should be a very good initial research topic for this group, > > By "this group" you mean the Web We Can Afford CG? ;) Then we should move the conversation there. yes. The web is a hypertextual system for which mail is one interface. Conversations go on everywhere, including here for example: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2016Jan/0084.html > I agree that this is a worthy topic! :-) > > Cheers, > A. > > as it >> is a protocol >> that works on the internet and is most directly of interest to economists, and so >> will get their direct interest too. There are also many claims that the block chain can >> be the underpinning for a new internet. >> >> Here is an initial article claiming that bitcoin is not sustainable: >> http://motherboard.vice.com/read/bitcoin-is-unsustainable >> It claims that 1 transaction uses up the energy of 1.5 households per >> day and that this is 5 thousand times less energy efficient than a credit >> card transaction. The article also points to another study that claims that >> the blockchain is 99% more efficient than the banking sector, though that >> one takes the whole banking sector into account, including if I read correctly >> the bank branches, ATM, employees, etc... >> >> Of course the bitcoin algorithm is perhaps not the last word. >> Tony Arciery in "The death of bitcoin" points to a number of other alogrithms in >> this space: >> https://tonyarcieri.com/the-death-of-bitcoin >> >> The Blockchain technology is getting a lot of attention recently. See for example >> the UK Government's Office of Science report just released >> "Distributed Ledger Technology: beyond block chain" >> https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/492972/gs-16-1-distributed-ledger-technology.pdf >> >> The issues here are clearly complex. But if a methodology can be found to answer this question >> in the blockchain world, where it will certainly get a lot of review and inspection, and if >> after getting this review and inspection it succeeded at achieving consensus, then that process >> could certainly be used to look at sustainability in other areas of the web. >> >> Henry > > > -- > > > * Membre du collège d'experts Open Data de la mission Etalab du Premier Ministre > * Chercheur associé chez Inria (EPI Wimmics, Sophia Antipolis) > * Co-initiateur du projet DBpedia Francophone et SemanticPedia > * Docteur en philosophie à Paris 1 Panthéon -Sorbonne (PHICO, EXeCO) - Thèse sur la philosophie du Web : disponible et annotable sur http://philoweb.org > * Co-chair du Community Group "Philosophy of the Web" au W3C > * Organisateur des "Rencontres du Web de données" > > http://web-and-philosophy.org/, > Twitter : @aamonnz & @PhiloWeb, > PhiloWeb on Dailymotion, PhiloWeb discussion list @INRIA
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