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Decred whitepaper #40

Open xaur opened 5 years ago

xaur commented 5 years ago

This tweet thread

Decred would gain a lot more mainstream recognition by publishing an academia-based game theory paper that explains initial governance decisions relating to percentages chosen. Larger adoption will also require an academia-based paper per ticket to increase voter knowledge.

started a discussion.

It would be nice to have a thorough whitepaper, although currently there are no hands to make it happen, and developers prefer to keep building. Quoting Dave:

We've collectively written plenty of information for such a paper if someone were inclined to dig back through everything. I really can't think of any part of the system that hasn't been explained in pretty significant detail.
Fork resistance, the voting process (both off-chain and on-chain), the ticket price algorithm (ther is even a full blown DCP for that one), ticket selection probabilties, etc. A few other things I can think of off the top of my head which I know have been discussed: expected block production probabilities, subsidy production schedule, SPV security properties, details about why BLAKE-256, address scheme, signature algorithm, transaction witnesses Obviously it would be a non-trivial amount of work to combine it all so that it flows well, flesh out any corners, and create references. However, I'm pretty sure it's all there

xaur commented 5 years ago

Another discussion in #research with many ideas about whom to contact and how to organize the effort.

xaur commented 5 years ago

Discussion: sponsoring and conflicts of interest.