Namecoin Forum

You seem to be advocating for central banks. Are you? MWD please don't put words in my mouth ... I'm observing from economic history there are a couple of forces here, Gresham's law and winner takes all property of networked services. Either a scheme becomes so popular it becomes the defacto standa...

If a particular user doesn't like it, that user can take the code and go make "Spamcoin" or whatever. Then let the free market decide which version(s) gain adoption. MWD[/quote] the problem is that because the scheme allows for human intervention, then that means emergency temporary measures can be...

hmmmm ... trying to work out the principal components of such a service - common standards for what is acceptable as a embedded personalty ... eg how to record right of entry to a park ... under some laws, child molesters are forbidden to approach within x metres of playgrounds. - mapping some uniqu...

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/524431/bitcoins-political-problem/ - current monetary design bases the amount and nature of money in the economy on an interaction between government policy and what private individuals want to hold - assuming that the state can be bypassed is unlikely to work - ...

> change/add/remove registry data. this shifts the problem from one of content coherence to that of authority ... who has the authority to change the terms of a contract, (perhaps unilaterally without notice as with some SNS terms) and identification of those authorities and processes for transfer o...

The problem I see is that contracts are not a static piece of paper with fixed hash but a living almost social document . For example, when I design licensing agreements, I have the general contract, some boilerplate and then annexes which are amended under some designated notification procedure (eg...

once bitten twice shy

For those interested in the fundamentals, this ruling might prove interesting in distinguishing between property and a position (marker, guidepost, etc). In the old Aussie Torrens land system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrens_title) the state maintained a central recordsd and guaranteed indefeas...

@modrobert wrote Do we really need power hungry politicians pushing their own agenda? not sure what that reference is to but an alternative to a centralised foundation (voting for people/trustees) is a variant of social policy bonds (anonymous payouts) with kickstarter (anonymous contributions). Tha...

@jdbtracker wrote " maybe they will try to make people need licences to create software?" Nothing that insidious. If you look at the main proponents of a stronger copyright system, they tend to be existing firms with back catalogs, vested infrastructure (eg windows franchise) or have historical sect...