protocols
a place to discuss protocols and protocol design
@morereese
"A protocol is a stratum of codified behavior that allows for the construction or emergence of complex coordinated behaviors at adjacent loci."
Is this working definition of "protocol" offered in The Unreasonable Sufficiency people's preferred definition?
https://venkatesh-rao.gitbook.io/summer-of-protocols
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@stc
notes on protocols, language and cryptography —
"People who work in cryptography often talk about trustless protocols, but what they mean is: cryptography scales trust. At the most abstract level, cryptography allows us to replace other forms of trust with trust in math. Or put another way, the trust isn’t eliminated. It just moves to a different part of the system, a part which can be scaled."
https://newsletter.squishy.computer/p/cryptography-scales-trust
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@stc
colourful contributions https://rodeo.club/post/0x1A076e7A6EE11bC5231351459c6B8f050b92F7Ee/130
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@jrf
@vgr is there a better protocol than those combination lockers that let anyone set their own code if they're open?
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@stc
Century-Scale Storage — memory preservation techniques from ancient stone carvings to decentralized network protocols https://lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scale-storage
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@df
email is sufficiently decentralized & 4 clients together have 90% market share
sufficiently decentralized is a pretty low bar relative to that set by most crypto protocols
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@df
🤡 Daily reminder: platforms will continue to treat third party developers like shit until we replace them with credibly neutral protocols
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@dfern.eth
I want to write a paper titled: "Hashcash is all you need (to protect attention)"
Putting this prediction on the record: any decentralized, permissionless, open protocol that doesn't have some form of cryptoeconomic spam protection will devolve into SMTP fiefdom where only a few players end up as the defacto gatekeepers.
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@dfern.eth
Love this thread from @corpetty
It's much easier to say "we'll decentralize later" rather than bite the bullet and decentralize now.
Farcaster, Status, IPFS, Swarm among others are still quietly building on that original p2p Bittorrent vision.
https://x.com/Corpetty/status/1828069937602019731
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