while Subconscious has taken the blockchain/protocol approach.
Subconscious isn’t blockchain. The noosphere protocol has the foundational features of a smart contract system, but it doesn’t seem quite secure enough against inconsistencies/double-spends to run finance (and that’s not an aspiration they seem to have), and the sacrifices it makes will make it cheap and easy to scale horizontally/federate. The protocol it’s most similar to is bluesky’s ATProtocol. I actually wanted to complain to them that they’re too similar and they should merge, but noosphere started developing before ATProtocol existed, so who can blame them really.
Although a part of me does wonder, if a protocol like atproto took off, whether people would start doing finance on it, security be damned, and then legal enforcement and auditing would come along and it would be effectively secured through international social technologies and trusted computing instead of cryptographic technologies and game theory and we might just end up in the same place. It would be a weird future.
Subconscious isn’t blockchain. The noosphere protocol has the foundational features of a smart contract system, but it doesn’t seem quite secure enough against inconsistencies/double-spends to run finance (and that’s not an aspiration they seem to have), and the sacrifices it makes will make it cheap and easy to scale horizontally/federate. The protocol it’s most similar to is bluesky’s ATProtocol. I actually wanted to complain to them that they’re too similar and they should merge, but noosphere started developing before ATProtocol existed, so who can blame them really.
Although a part of me does wonder, if a protocol like atproto took off, whether people would start doing finance on it, security be damned, and then legal enforcement and auditing would come along and it would be effectively secured through international social technologies and trusted computing instead of cryptographic technologies and game theory and we might just end up in the same place. It would be a weird future.