On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Taral <taralx@gmail.com> wrote:

That's a brilliant idea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnet_(peer-to-peer_network)#MojoNation

Yeah, I'm familiar with the history of MojoNation and have talked to Zooko in person about it. I think MojoNation's model is somewhat overcomplicated and introducing a virtual currency into the system is probably not the best way to enforce you-get-what-you-give. I don't think things need to be measured as precisely as a "Mojo" unit of network participation. Apologies if my comparisons to Bitcoin made you feel I was implying a virtual currency as a solution. I'm thinking something more along the lines of a web-of-trust. The block chain concept from BitCoin is interesting. Perhaps trust can be established through client-specific signature chain files (as opposed to a global distributed block chain), with the peer's pubkey as the header, and each time that peer successfully sends another peer a file, the recipient adds some metadata about the transfer (e.g. timestamp, transfer rate) to the end of the file then signs the entire file with their private key. A single peer's signature chain alone wouldn't tell you much, but if you apply a collaborative filtering algorithm (e.g. Slope One, Singular Value Decomposition) to large numbers of these signature chain files, I think it would be possible to data mine them in order to discover the best peers to collaborate with. Perhaps "you get what you give" is the wrong description for what I'm thinking of. How about "pay it forward?" When one peer asks for some data from another, or asks to store part of a file, the sender can examine the recipient's signature chain, possibly comparing it to others, and based on that decide if it's willing to donate bandwidth or storage in order to help it out. -- Tony Arcieri _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE