hawala is the l1, merchants are the l2 or is hawala the l1, and payments the dapp? i like the former because it captures the trust and security assumptions accurately cc @Lyn Alden

blocks get appended in the direction of increasing entropy block number goes up, entropy goes up

seize the means of information discovery!

a little late to the party but I’m loving this book so far

where can I read more about the #DVM?

we need neutral, uncensorable, decentralised, opt in information discovery mechanisms and we need em fast

what do you think @jack @Lyn Alden ? View quoted note →

we need credibly neutral tools that can verifiably translate between code and simple language. do we expect users to simply believe that you can trust ‘xyz’ because there are honest nodes in the underlying network? in a world of sovereign individuals everyone can’t be expected to understand the code (algorithm) of the platform they’re using. an ai model/frontend is expected to translate that information in simple language - but how can the user trust the translation? through an attestation? how can the attestation on a frontend be trusted?

build freedom tech. your state, your keys. #introductions