Some questions for discussion (from the post):
1a. Do you believe payments would be a primary blockchain use case a decade from now? Why or why not?
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2a. Privacy is a valuable property in Web3. Currently, we rely on the service provider, e.g., Facebook, to maintain the privacy of our data. What is the proposed mechanism to obtain privacy in Web3?
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3a. What are other interesting NFT use cases (other than the ones mentioned in the post)?
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3b. Why is digital art as an NFT valued so much if the owner does not get exclusive access to it?
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5. What are the two killer blockchain use cases not mentioned in the post?
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Thanks to , Matt Weinberg, Pramod Viswanath, , and for the interesting discussions.
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CC'ing some others who may have thoughts to add:
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Peer to peer credit is really the only application I care about, though it will rely on privacy as a technical mechanism to work.
Also the ability to transfer account reputation from one setting to another, like Balaji talks about as a pseudonymous economy
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Interesting. Can we think of it as a specific kind of leakage to a privacy-preserving payment system? May be I don't see it clearly: why do I need a blockchain to maintain this notion of "account reputation transfer in a pseudonymous economy"?
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The key idea is viewing the platform as the adversary. The threat is similar to Mastodon deplatforming... The hostile platform decides to cancel your account, as sovereign user can you prepare an "escape hatch" in advance that lets you bring your followers and posts to a new one
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This is roughly the idea we explored in delegaTEE, can you use Blockchain/zk tech broadly to empower the user do something with their own data that the platform prefers them not to be able to do usenix.org/conference/use
Very interesting. I assume you are thinking of replacing TEE by any trust or 51% honesty assumption.
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I'm all in on TEE these days. Even an MPC solution should be implemented on a TEE to discourage/prevent long term leak attacks
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