asciilifeform: perhaps the resident zoologists (ben_vulpes ?) could comment.
asciilifeform: i have never seen it in the field. but it appears to be a webtard thing
asciilifeform: 'One note to consider: certification, e.g. OpenSSL on RHEL is certified to FIPS 140-2, so if you used TLS with OpenSSL as the backend the FedGOV/large firms/etc could use salt.' << gold.
asciilifeform: gotta love the 'use openssl like everybody else, peon!' folk.
asciilifeform: iirc there originally were ~two~ minercartels
asciilifeform: reminiscent of ukr atrocities where the ss came and barfed
asciilifeform: what it takes to make even peter todd barf!
asciilifeform: of hashing power is on board, a direct 51% attack is always possible (though I’d expect a more subtle approach to be used).' << ahahaha.
asciilifeform: 'Allegedly ChainAnchor was looking into paying miners an additional premium if they mine on top of compliant blocks rather than on top of non-compliant blocks; a possible strategy for miners might be to use compliance as a tie-breaker when determining what side of a fork to mine on. It’s also easy to imagine tools like DoS attacks being used, as well as legal, regulatory, and even social pressure. Finally of course, once a majority
asciilifeform: miners will receive as much printolade as it takes. the ones who refuse - 'have problems' etc.
asciilifeform: everybody recalls, yes, that this endgame was obvious even in 2013 ?
asciilifeform: the zero knowledge proof protocol with the IdP-PV prior to mining for ChainAnchor permissioned-transactions.'
asciilifeform: 'n the ChainAnchor semi-permissioned overlay a successful miner receives a further additional payment (beyond the new coins and transaction-fees in Bitcoin) for completing a block consisting only of permissioned-transactions. For a validated permissioned-block, IdP-PI and IdP-PV must verify that the successful Miner’s public-key is found in the Verified Identities Database. That is, they both must ensure that the Miner has executed
asciilifeform: g non-registered users entirely.' << mega-l0l!
asciilifeform: 'Based on the information I have available to me, it appears that the MIT ChainAnchor Project is in part an attempt to get Bitcoin users to register their real world identities and associate their transactions with those identities. Initially this would be on an opt-in basis, however it appears that ChainAnchor has a longer-term plan to bribe and coerce miners into only mining transactions from registered users, eventually prohibitin☟︎
asciilifeform has been awake for quite some time and will bbl.
asciilifeform: also thing runs on a real db now and can handle 'slashdotting' etc.
asciilifeform: but the basic litmus is now built-in and it turned up a buncha strange.
