[ExI] Thoughts on Ethereum?

[Giulio Prisco]

Of course Robin, but let's do one step at a time, a big if is better
than a big no. Re state enforcement, this is based on a distributed
blockchain technology similar to Bitcoin, which makes it difficult to
stop (there is no central infrastructure to seize or shut down, and
users can be very difficult to track if they take basic privacy
steps).

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Robin D Hanson <rhanson at gmu.edu> wrote:
> It "would" if it became popular and widely used enough that sufficient supporting
> infrastructure was available, and it managed to resist state efforts to enforce
> rules against using it for illegal activities. Those are big ifs.
>
> On Mar 14, 2014, at 2:30 AM, Giulio Prisco wrote:
>> "Adrian - It's yet another solution looking for a problem at the moment."
>>
>> Well, it's a platform, it may open ways to develop many solution to
>> many problems. For example, Ethereum seems the ideal platform to
>> develop idea futures and general prediction markets.
>>
>> A PAM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_Analysis_Market built on
>> Ethereum would permit betting real money (more precisely, cryptocoins
>> that can be concerted to real money) anonymously.
>>
>> Robin, are you here and can you comment?
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Tomaz Kristan <protokol2020 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I thought, something like this will be only possible using quantum
>>> contracts. But I was only half right. It may be possible with the classical
>>> cryptography, too!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> It's yet another solution looking for a problem at the moment.
>>>>
>>>> Let me know once they list specific things they can do better than
>>>> existing alternatives.  Right now they just list general capabilities, and
>>>> that's been shown insufficient to achieve significant use by itself.
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 12, 2014 1:28 AM, "Giulio Prisco" <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Take a look at https://www.ethereum.org/
>>>>>
>>>>> At a first glance it seems a powerful enabler for a social singularity
>>>>> and a candidate Next Big Thing. I can even see applications to AI.
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