Would anyone out there be interested in helping set up a crypto-anarcho-capitalist MUD to play around with some of the social aspects of crypto-anarchy and anarcho-capitalism? I can probably hack together a basic lpmud in a month or two if someone has a machine which it could run on and which could run a mailing list for those involved.
I've been planning to run a MUD like that, at mud.umop-ap.com port 2121. I just don't have enough coded to be worth announcing yet. Which cryptographic primitives should be coded in initially? Obvious choices are: Pseudonyms Anonymous digital cash (issued by any pseudonym, not just "banks") Public and private keys Secret sharing Anonymous broadcast & message pools Anonymous markets (ref: Tim May's sig) What am I missing? Should there be direct support for Jim Bell's assasination markets? It'd provide a means of demonstrating its ineffectiveness as a means of social control. I think that for purposes of simulation, it's reasonable to model cryptographic primitives in a "Trust the server" mode, because you need to trust the MUD server anyway (unlike a government), and it puts a much lower load on the CPU. There's also the question of log policy. Having run a MUD for a few years, I want to keep logs for bug detection. A declared policy that they aren't released for n years would work though. Opinions, anyone? [snip]
Please send replies to me directly as I'm travelling and consequently off the list. Looks like I'll be on a mad bus trip round New Zealand for most of next month so Net access will be erratic.
Sent to Cypherpunks as well, in case anyone else is interested.
Mark
Jon Leonard