dominictarr / web3_p2p-infrastructure

Secure Scuttlebutt & p2p infrastructure

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Secure Scuttlebutt & LeastAuthority

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• many private blockchains

• proof of stake

• each with single staker

  #notablockchain

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many chains, tangled together

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no such thing as a "full node"

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zombie apocalypse ready

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safe assumption: Social Statistical Pattterns

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popular applications

• talk to people
• play chess
• use git
• and more...

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implementations

• javascript/node (reference)
• go
• rust (underway)

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development goal: use value

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lessons of web 1 and 2

• users = value
• fail fast & iterate

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scuttlebutt + ethereum

prototypical dapp is a "market"

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market

• mostly information exchange (ssb)
• then a transaction (eth)

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development

• smart contracts are like hardware
• p2p is "software"

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• simplest smart contract
• full node + "notary" on ssb (etc)
• users are clients to full nodes

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attacks

• notary shows incorrect data
• notary witholds data

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natural incentive

• notary invested in the market

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user layer

• web interface (federated)
• ssb peers (decentralized)

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take away

eventual consistency