BlogHide Resteemsivoras (45)in humor • last monthBillbijaThis is in Croatian, but it's something I wish to save on the blockchain as I've participated in its creation. It was sometime before Y2K, probably circa 1998 when a bunch of young nerds at a…ivoras (45)in blockchain • 3 months agoHow to overcome the distributed blockchain performance problemI've found yet another naive question about why current blockchains are slow, and if any blockchain can ever be fast and decentralised. Here's my response: Any blockchain? Yes. Will it match any of…ivoras (45)in web3 • 2 years agoProblems we don't want to solve - decentralisation and the free lunchAs is appropriate for this time of year, yesterday my sister started enthusiastically describing a new app by the municipal graveyard maintenance company, which allows users to search for a…ivoras (45)in rant • 3 years agoWhy I absolutely hate my Roomba E5This has been a rant long in the making. In short, I often visualise destroying my Roomba E5 device in a way similar to the classic scene from the cult movie "Office Space" where the group…ivoras (45)in blockchain • 4 years agoPerpetual DAO businesses, marketplaces and crypto black boxesWe are technologically very close to a future where there are web-based businesses which exist only on the blockchain, which are by default distributed and which actually do useful stuff instead of…ivoras (45)in censorship • 5 years agoModern Corporate Machine Learning CensorshipI can't be the only one who is both disgusted and concerned how in this day and age of rampant interconnectivity and unprecedented opportunity for creativity, many of the voices who dare approach…ivoras (45)in futurism • 5 years agoAugmented nativesA colleague of mine shared a story which happened recently with his young daughter (around 6yo) in a car: - Daddy, daddy, play the "aweem-ba-we aweem-ba-we" song! I can't right dear, I'm tying…ivoras (45)in blockchain • 6 years agoBlockchain's present opportunity: data interchange standardisationNo matter what the future of private blockchains might be, their best current use case is in the standardization of communication between various, likely disparate organisations. The whole…ivoras (45)in blockchain • 6 years agoBlockchain without blockchainI was talking with a colleague today about practical applications of blockchains outside cryptocurrencies, and he defended the opinion that blockchain is nowadays used more than ever, but the vast…ivoras (45)in blockhain • 6 years agoPoW algorithm from hellJust a thought, and excuse me if it has already been done: memory sizes on ASICs are growing (as well as on FPGAs and GPUs) and logic transistors are extremely cheap. The next hard thing seems to be…ivoras (45)in blockchain • 6 years agoBlockchain "pull"As a pet project, I've been working on putting Wikipedia on my blockchain implementation named "Daisy." Since Daisy is a Proof-of-Authority blockchain whose blocks are SQLite blocks, it's very…ivoras (45)in blockchain • 6 years agoPutting Wikipedia on the blockchainThere's this pet project I have, the Daisy blockchain, which uses SQLite databases as blocks. Literally, each block is a completely normal SQLite database and can be accessed (read-only) as such. It…ivoras (45)in money • 6 years agoThe Nature of MoneyOpinions are like arseholes: everybody has one. -- Anonymous Some time ago I sat down to write an article about what, to my personal and subjective understanding, money is. It was hastily written…ivoras (45)in blockchain • 6 years agoSharing state among incompatible blockchainstl;dr: We can create a system where account state (e.g. all data associated with an address, including balance, tokens, etc.) regularly migrates between blockchains. The point of using blockchains…ivoras (45)in blockchain • 6 years agoCreating a custom private SQL blockchain with DaisyDaisy, my PoA blockchain where blocks are SQLite databases, is a bit over a year old by now, and it's gaining features mostly on as-needed basis. Patches and contributors are always welcome, of…ivoras (45)in blockchain • 6 years agoBlockchains & AII did a lecture early this year to students of the local technical college, with the topic of futurism in the context of the blockchain and aiming to inspire young minds to think in new directions.…ivoras (45)in blockchain • 6 years agoPrivate blockchains vs other databases part 2: The business perspectivetl;dr: If your project doesn't specifically benefit from a feature which is only offered by blockchains, save yourself the effort and the pain and use a regular database. This is the second part of…ivoras (45)in blockchain • 6 years agoPrivate blockchains vs other databases part 1: The tech perspectivetl;dr: If your project doesn't specifically benefit from a feature which is only offered by blockchains, save yourself the effort and the pain and use a regular database. As an introduction, I'll…ivoras (45)in blockchain • 6 years agoOn the impossibility of replacing social consensus with technical consensustl;dr: "free will". There's this picture floating around the net these days: It's presented in the positive light, like replacing social consensus with technical consensus is a worthy goal…ivoras (45)in blockchain • 6 years agoOn customised distributed consensus - the "firmware" of blockchainsWhile working on something (a project named Equinox, in fact. Stay tuned.), I needed to re-think why a blockchain solution is needed at all, and to figure out how to actively use the strengths of a…
