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Why I find it kind of cute is that those buys (GNS fcfs) are basically meaningless - in a p2p system everyone can just host a service like this.

Comment · 2 years ago

I find it kind of cute that they set up this mock-up currency 'kudos' to toy around with it. (https://demo.taler.net/en/)

What makes it (more) cute is that you can use it to reserve entries in their GNS first-come-first-served service. (https://fcfs.gnunet.org/)

GNS being the GNU Name System which is a decentralized/p2p equivalent to DNS. (https://www.gnunet.org/en/gns.html)

Comment · 2 years ago

Won't the vendors just design their prices in a way that it's economically feasible for them - they just include the transaction costs in the price?

Comment · 2 years ago

...and, as quoted by sunshine_reggae, lower transaction costs.

Comment · 2 years ago

My understanding here is that the main objective is to break up the MasterCard/Visa duopoly. I guess breaking up duopolies is always a win for the general public, no?

Comment · 2 years ago

People should know that

1. it's not based on any kind of blockchain,

2. it's not a currency, it's a payment system which you could use to transfer other currencies (euro, dollar, ...) and

3. unlike most blockchain-based currencies it offers anonymity (only for buyers, not for sellers, though)

Comment · 4 years ago

You might want to have a look at the GNS (GNU Name System): https://www.gnunet.org/en/gns.html https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/id/draft-schanzen-gns-01.ht... To my understanding, this enables what you are looking for.

Comment · 4 years ago

There has been a rust-library for signal in the works. I read some discussion on it that made it clear the aim was to develop a proper signal-desktop application. The rust-library has a cli, which is not quite finished. https://github.com/whisperfish/presage

Comment · 4 years ago

I was not surprised that it happens, but I was quite astonished about the extent of it.

Also it's nice to have proof and insight.

Comment · 5 years ago

You might want to have a look at presage - an implementation in rust: https://github.com/whisperfish/presage

Comment · 5 years ago

You can find the main changes over the last version in the first chapter of the specification: https://bugs.otr.im/otrv4/otrv4/-/blob/master/otrv4.md#main-...

Quote:

- Security level raised to 224 bits and based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC).

- Additional protection against transcript decryption in the case of ECC compromise.

- Support of conversations where one party is offline.

- Updated cryptographic primitives and protocols:

   - Deniable authenticated key exchanges (DAKE) using "DAKE with Zero Knowledge" (DAKEZ) and "Extended Zero-knowledge Diffie-Hellman" (XZDH) [1]. DAKEZ corresponds to conversations when both parties are online (interactive) and XZDH to conversations when one of the parties is offline (non-interactive).

   - Key management using the Double Ratchet Algorithm [2].

   - Upgraded SHA-1 and SHA-2 to SHAKE-256.

   - Switched from AES to ChaCha20 [3]. The RFC 7539 variant is used [16] .

 - Support of an out-of-order network model.

 - Support of different modes in which this specification can be implemented.

 - Explicit instructions for producing forged transcripts using the same functions used to conduct honest conversations.

Comment · 6 years ago

Yes, sure. But that's fine - everyone who wants to have their GNS can design their own DHT. It's still outside of the spec. (Which makes a lot of sense to me.)

Comment · 6 years ago

Also from Ursula K. Le Guin: The Dispossessed.

Not mind bending for someone who spent some time trying to imagine a anarchist society (but still quite enriching), but maybe for others.

Comment · 6 years ago

About the same time that "Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22570684).

Comment · 6 years ago

Don't you think that "ideological reasons" can be quite a good reason to do things?

Besides, following ideological reasons only means to value certain (other) aspects higher for evaluating the question how good something is.

Usually the term ideological implies (in my book) that a person is considering the greater good, and willing to take a step back in own convenience. That sounds like a nice person to me. Maybe you could spare some curiosity for their reasons?