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What to assume and not about the storage (blockchain) #45

Closed dbosk closed 6 years ago

dbosk commented 6 years ago

How much should we assume about the storage? We had a discussion about letting it be run by independent organizations with conflicting interests, e.g. each country participate as a node --- i.e. the countries must collude to drop proofs etc.

A blockchain must be slightly adapted, e.g. all these "altcoins", except maybe for Ethereum. Then we'll go all the way to P2P. However, if we go for the various organizations running it together, they don't need the monetary mining incentive to run the infrastructure.

dbosk commented 6 years ago

as soon as possible. Another assumption: blockchain. Can one just use
the one for Bitcoin or is it a separate one and how do people get rewarded?

This one is sliding more and more out-of-scope as an assumption. I've added an issue for it (#45).

Earlier we had a discussion about organizations who are unlikely to collude should run the underlying storage, i.e. the blockchain part. In this case we don't need the mining and monetary incentives.

A real blockchain, like Bitcoin, would need to be adapted I think. But it should be totally fine to implement on top of Ethereum, since that one is very general.

dbosk commented 6 years ago

I'd say this is covered now. The blockchain must be used for more than protesting stuff (discussed in the paper). Then we've outlined the minimal requirements in the building blocks section.