What are the deepest questions & ideas people are exploring around crypto? Not get-rich-quick, but rather ideas that may be really transformative. Explanation and links welcome!
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What are a few of the most stimulating things you've read about crypto?
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Diving deep in the cypherpunk archives. Ex: ideas for darknet markets came from cypherpunks. Fundamentally, darknet markets are Tor for anonymous routing, PGP encryption, PGP for identity, cryptocurrency for payment. All just clever uses of private keys. Tons of stuff like that
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I remember being very excited after reading
@VitalikButerin's post on Futarchy in 2014. Lots of things in crypto are hard CS, economics, human behavior, game theory, governance, etc. This post really stimulated all of those if I remember correctly.https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/08/21/introduction-futarchy/ …
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So, people have to figure out how to make things work with a blockchain in the middle no matter what. Means people need to tackle usability problems no one has been incentivized to do in the past I think. I've particularly enjoyed thinking about this stuffhttps://blog.hellobloom.io/how-to-make-a-user-friendly-ethereum-dapp-5a7e5ea6df22 …
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There are still a lot of big questions to figure out but I think someone will get it. How do you tie private keys to biometrics? How do you let people recover keys? If you backup keys to the cloud, how do you make sure compromising those doesn't mean complete account takeover?
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Funny - a lot of these things (privacy, usability) are things Apple is as good at as anyone.
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I think they were very forward thinking to have taken such a pro privacy stance over the last few years. Yeah, I think Apple specifically could own this world if they wanted. I don't think a big company will move on it though. Big co sees liability, startup sees upside.
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