Welcome to The Decentralized!
Issue #1
Hi there!
Jacob here from The Decentralized. The is the first issue, so bear with me for a few housekeeping items.
What is The Decentralized?
The Decentralized is a 📬curated newsletter and 👥community for people interested in tokens, crypto-systems, and the decentralized future.
My goal is to save you time. You only get stuff delivered to you that’s worth your time. Time is crypto.
In addition to the articles, any member can hop into the community discussion. As you’re well aware in crypto-land, not everything is clear cut. Just ask the SEC.
There are gray areas and dissenting opinions about our decentralized future. What that will mean for us. What that will mean for our children.
Let’s figure it out together. Let’s leave this world a better place than when we arrived.
When will I get this newsletter?
You will receive at least one delightful email each week featuring in-depth articles, papers, videos, and resources. The emails are always free; access to the community conversation is a pro-feature.
Like any product or service, this is an experiment. I welcome feedback and ideas for how we can improve things around here. Just hit reply to any email you get from me, and we’ll talk.
Without further ado, here are this week’s selections!
Is Quantum Computing a threat to Bitcoin? 👉
ERC-1155: The Crypto Item Standard 👉
Three years ago, Ethereum brought the very first Turing-complete blockchain virtual machine to developers around the world.
It’s safe to say that a large portion of the smart contracts deployed on Ethereum are tokens. Tokens are the ultimate abstract smart contract — they are the pure crystallization of owning something in the digital space.
Knowledge Extractable Voting for Blockchain & Distributed Governance — Radically New Mechanisms beyond “The Richer Get Richer” 👉
Blockchain is a decentralisation revolution with the potential to change not only payment activities, but also decisions in future organisations to finance projects (aka ICOs), govern decentralized enterprises (aka DAOs) or curate lists (aka TCRs). A central tool of crucial decision making in the systems is voting.
In fact, voting as a decentralized decision mechanism plays a key role for the practicability and sustainability of blockchain ideologies. We argue that the standard democratic voting mechanism — each voter casts a vote — is vulnerable and fails to meet the requirements of contemporary blockchain applications.
We present a radically new mechanism, called Knowledge Extractable Voting, and showcase its versatility and practicability in the curation of graded token-curated registries, as utilised in the Weeve network protocol.
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Thanks,
- jacob