[Notes] Piggybacking onto the Value Transfer Protocol idea…
If money could be exchanged electronically through as “open” a standard as FTP (by analogy anyway), then that would catapult internet service providers into a ridiculously important new role to play: electronic banks.
In a sense, ISP’s are already that - if you accept that information is a form [...]
{Piggy-backing on the idea I just posted about: using cached versions of pages in place of newer updated versions, either intentionally or accidentally…}
How would you ever know whether a blog post that you’re reading from a random stranger on the internet hasn’t been automatically edited to remove certain keywords and types of content? For that [...]
Articles for further exploration of this subject, although I’m still not certain what value an open-source identity would have (but I intuit that there is one!):
Digital Identity: “Identifiers are the key used by the parties to an identification relationship to agree on the entity being represented.” {see also: networked identity in that same article}
Juristic person: [...]
Continued from here.
The reason this falls apart, in some sense though, is interesting: the act of “conspiracy” implies that there is a closed shared value community which is operating as a unit (spiritual credit union) for the mutual benefit of members.
Why is this necessarily wrong?
And how is that different from what Kevin from Cryptogon [...]
Within six months, there will be an entirely new paradigm guiding user experience and human interaction on the web. All we lack is the language to adequately describe it. For language is the program which enables us to write programs, as it were, by communicating our needs and desires to one another in a constructive [...]
