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    michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 30 Apr 2018
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    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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      2. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 30 Apr 2018
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        Here's one I heard from a friend: ICOs are interesting because for the first time they really incentivize the creation of new open protocols. SMTP, HTTP, SSL etc all arguably at least as valuable as Google/FB, but no value capture, so people didn't work so much on new protocols.

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      3. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 30 Apr 2018
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        If ICOs (or anything else) can change that they're unimaginably important.

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      4. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 30 Apr 2018
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        Curious if any of these ideas have been hooked into the legal infrastructure for creating virtual companies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_limited_liability_company … Sadly, that doesn't seem to have been implemented in a scalable way. But some government could probably be convinced...

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      2. Kevin Kwok‏ @kevinakwok 1 May 2018
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        Can we explore frontiers of governance structures, can we find new primitives and schelling points of group Dynamics, can we find ways to extend scale at which we can have coherent systems, can we find internal only mechanisms for handling metagame

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      3. Kevin Kwok‏ @kevinakwok 3 May 2018
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        Can we find a new coordination tool on par with capitalism and social

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      2. David Manheim‏ @davidmanheim Jul 2
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        In my view, THE deep question for crypto - including currencies, smart contracts, and traditional cryptography - is how to allow governance in a way that allows rules and code-bases to evolve in a *binding way* using a consensus / voting mechanism. @gwern, @VitalikButerinhttps://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/991177364267716608 …

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        michael_nielsen @michael_nielsen
        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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      3. David Manheim‏ @davidmanheim Jul 2
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        And this seems to be a fundamentally hard problem, at least as hard as the byzantine general problem Satoshi solved / side-stepped with #blockchain. That's because we have impossibility results for voting AND computational complexity issues with verifying safe changes to code.https://twitter.com/davidmanheim/status/1146003976506236928 …

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        David Manheim @davidmanheim
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        In my view, THE deep question for crypto - including currencies, smart contracts, and traditional cryptography - is how to allow governance in a way that allows rules and code-bases to evolve in a *binding way* using a consensus / voting mechanism. @gwern, @VitalikButerin https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/991177364267716608 …
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      1. Rahul M‏ @rahulmfromspace 30 Apr 2018
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        Decentralized marketplace for data / ML models. New innovations in federated/encrypted ML could make this possible. https://medium.com/computable-blog/introducing-computable-labs-48a69eb3aa8b … @rbhar90

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      1. dabacon‏ @dabacon 30 Apr 2018
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        Uses of crypto for federated machine learning. https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.04482  With differential privacy part of a bag of tricks needed to do machine learning while maintaining privacy.

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      1. Alex Stokes‏ @ralexstokes 30 Apr 2018
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        i.e. the new types of social systems a trustless medium enables

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