On 08/02/2018 04:14 PM, Steven Schear wrote:
"Augur’s creators claim they don’t have control over what its users choose to do with the protocol—or the ability to shut it down. This creates a problem that is “endemic” to blockchain technology, says Wright, who recently co-wrote a book on the subject: “If you do not have a very concrete intermediary—i.e., a company or group of people that are running the marketplace—how do you apply laws and prevent that activity from occurring?”
This is, as they say in marketing, not a problem but a feature.
Yep. I mean, that's the fucking point! But I gotta say, they need to work on the anonymity aspect. The argument that participation anonymity doesn't matter, as long as adversaries can't attribute stuff, is weak. Look at Freenet, for example.
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018, 3:55 PM jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611757/this-new-ethereum-based-assassinat...
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