A Radical Shared Economy

Category: stellar

  • Algebra, computer languages and “shared truth”

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    The word algebra comes from the Arabic word al-jbr meaning “completion”, “restoration” and “reunion of broken pieces”. Al-Kitab al-Mukhtasar fi Hisab al-jbr Wal-Mugabalah (The Compendious book on calculation by completion and balancing) was written in 820 in Baghdad by Persian polymath Al-Khwarizmi. The title of this book is the ultimate etymology of the word algebra.…

  • Internet Level Consensus & Decentralised Data Sovereignty

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    This type of consensus that the internet relies on and that is at the heart of the Stellar Consensus Protocol is purely relational in the sense that it is based on the transitive convergence of relationships throughout the network. This allows for reputation within the community to be the main influencing factor on consensus. This…

  • Who is Sybil?

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    & Why did Byzantine generals have a problem? Believe it or not these 2 questions define the 2 fundamental security vulnerabilities of human networks. Human networks today are mostly based on the underlying global internet network. If James Lovelock’s thesis of the “Novacene” is correct and we are already cyborgs. Then doesn’t that mean that…

  • A Vision for an open Decentralised Web 3.0 Social Cooperation network built on Stellar.

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    Given the current model of Web 2.0 social media platforms like Instagram is quite mature and well integrated into global popular culture, mirroring the model leveraging the logic of the decentralised secure Stellar Consensus Protocol could be a pathway to mainstream user adoption of the Stellar network. Imagine an open source Web 3.0 social cooperation…

  • To the Stellar Community Fund Verified Panel

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    Hi Everyone, It’s great to be back after 2 years hiatus. Nice to see lots of familiar handles in discord and the usual suspects still going above and beyond for the community, you know who you are. Everything is looking very fresh feels like a good time to be back. New website, upgraded discord channels,…