Cryptocurrency: Blockchains As Global Code Repositories?

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Wed Feb 9 23:07:44 PST 2022


Pre-existing economic models of, and networks for,
value/currency... are unlikely to be usable, since their
motivations, valuations, and participation are not
centric to or aligned with "code".

ie: Though it maybe / is possible, to directly build and
use a repo upon existing native ETH/BTC network, it
would be futile due to high per tx fees and tx/day limits.

Global democratization of coding, code, access, even grand
socialized determination of dividend-for-accepted-work,
etc... out to third world accessibility, requires repo
operation fees to be trivial, say $0.001 per op, or even
"free" depending on the network model.

Either clone and tune an existing network that can work,
or create one optimized as a global coding repo from scratch.

A "blockchain on a git" is not a "git on a blockchain".

A global repo that depends on DNS/dotcom services, that
isn't replicated, under consensus, etc... isn't "permanent" and
won't survive censorship's assault against critical application code
and its metadata. PGP, DeCSS, MP3, and PopcornTime were
examples of app code whose survival was under duress and thus
forced to go mobile to survive. A global distributed repo running
at a level of 1000+ repos, 500GiB, 1000tx/day, or larger will be
quite hard to shutdown than Bitcoin since its primary purpose
is not money but codespeech. More apps that need code
censorship protection will surely be coming in the future.
Github, and even git on an onion/i2p, neither being distributed
stores, will hardly provide enough resistance.


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