Vitalik seems to think that LessWrongers could help out the cryptocurrency world in terms of philosophy, game theory, and computer science knowledge. I would agree, given that those seem to be the greatest strengths of the LessWrong community.
It was also nice to see one of the biggest names in an industry give credit to LessWrong in a blog post.
There is a significant gap between the fields of distributed systems (and consensus) and game-theory.
There is one well known cryptocurrency innovator who, in a private group, denounced the usage of economics or game theory to secure the consensus of a cryptocurrency ledger, and the justification lacked rationality.
It may have been this gap in academia compounded with the irrational arguments put forth by somebody well known in the crypto currency community which prompted Vitalik to seek help from this community.
My bias is with my own work, so I would appreciate if anyone here could look over the security of the Tendermint protocol. To attack it first you must understand it. I can help you understand it. You can also read the source for the reference implementation on GitHub.
I can see why Bitcoin would want to do that.
Why is it in the interest of people here to help out? The only detail that seems substantially interesting is the last bullet point.
There’s also serious academic work already on cryptocurrencies. What do you think people here can offer beyond that?
Vitalik seems to think that LessWrongers could help out the cryptocurrency world in terms of philosophy, game theory, and computer science knowledge. I would agree, given that those seem to be the greatest strengths of the LessWrong community.
It was also nice to see one of the biggest names in an industry give credit to LessWrong in a blog post.
There is a significant gap between the fields of distributed systems (and consensus) and game-theory.
There is one well known cryptocurrency innovator who, in a private group, denounced the usage of economics or game theory to secure the consensus of a cryptocurrency ledger, and the justification lacked rationality.
It may have been this gap in academia compounded with the irrational arguments put forth by somebody well known in the crypto currency community which prompted Vitalik to seek help from this community.
My bias is with my own work, so I would appreciate if anyone here could look over the security of the Tendermint protocol. To attack it first you must understand it. I can help you understand it. You can also read the source for the reference implementation on GitHub.