(apologies i am subscribed digest) On Sun, Jun 5, 2022 at 1:00 PM <bitcoin-dev-requ...@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2022 04:18:04 +0000 > From: alicexbt <alice...@protonmail.com> > To: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion > <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> > Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin covenants are inevitable > Message-ID: > > <zyE-uR_2M7vAE8jXf3wthIGQj_-dz9FoL50ERTmCb-MCv4zyMgoHAdSff539SPtROJpJdgrfBspM3IZJrNQ9V4kpDnyMB9X6mlWf0eSk1Rk=@protonmail.com> > Hi Jorge, > > > Misinformation is false or inaccurate information, especially that which is > deliberately intended to deceive. > A combination of 'misleading' and 'information'. it's a classic technique that was refined by psy-ops well over 60 years ago. it should come as no surprise at all that it is being systematically deployed to undermine bitcoin. (welcome to the party, all psy-ops teams reading this: i admire your persistence and tenacity. you serve an extremely useful purpose of detecting flaws in the resilience of bitcoin and its development.) a potential solution is Trust Metrics. the most successful open source experiment in that regard was advogato.org by Raph Levien. i expanded it greatly so that any user could specify the "seeds" whom *they* trusted, rather than being forced to utilise the fixed hard-coded user ids in the advogato.org source code (this difference is extremely important for de-centralisation) public declarations of trust, and their propagation through standard Maximum-Flow Graph analysis, helps greatly to filter out the crap. advogato deflected heavy systematic and sustained spam attacks thanks to the simple expedient of users declaring publicly whom they trusted. a more advanced version of the max-flow concept came up a few years later called keynote (RFC2704) the similarity between trust metric evaluation and the bitcoin protocol is so remarkable that i am, frankly, slightly stunned that it was not added right from the start. it is ironic that the lack of integrated trust metric evaluation built-in to the bitcoin protocol is now hampering developers from being able to evaluate whom to trust when it comes to protocol development. l. _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
