Monero is strictly better than bitcoin.

The best thing that happened is a ton of money went into research.

For me, allowing entry to a network is potentially choosing who has the right to participate based on criteria that are not always objective. Not to mention the censorship risks.

Otherwise no interest in recreating copies of Amazon web services or vpn providers.

True. But it is also true that there is a limit to what can be allowed to happen.

Democracy to me is a happy bargain XD.

I also think permissioned blockchains would coexist with permissionless block chains. But the bulk of the activity will be in permissioned blockchain.

Monero or some variant of it will not die.

And the obvious pragmatic point i.e the overwhelming cost of Proof of work.

ZK technology will be at the heart of privacy preservation.

I agree with ZK. But to come back to TOR, is it relevant for the sake of relevance to pay for a service that is supposed to help freedom of expression and communication in non-liberal countries?

It's not just non liberal countries. I would want a good solution to anonymity. Tracking every movement of the individual is a huge problem. Most major internet companies are basically spyware behind a garb of legitimacy.

also new research on subject. https://twitter.com/HajijMustafa/status/1649343920613244929?s=20

I believe that simplical complexes will revolutionize the field of AI architectures.

The other very interesting Research direction is neural turing machines. https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5401

Yes, greg was also talking alot about simplical complexes.

This is an highly speculative idea, but I believe AI architectures will do away with layers eventually. The AI model will transform a simplical complex (or variant) in multiple steps. You can develop algorithms that are agnostic to data shape. Second independent idea, but also related idea is network weights will be stored as content addressable memory/associative memory(or variant). I suspect this will allow for much more generality. Because you are doing are working one order higher in a sense.

Living without images

I think looking at unforgables and scoping sematics from a fresh perspective would be useful.

I found that https://nymtech.net/ @prathyush

I haven't gone into it, but looks promising in comparison to the other 2 networks.

I think what nym want to build is almost impossible

Prooving that you have transmitted a given packet, and get tokens/income out of it. You'd have to make packet transfer of TCP/IP verifiable by other peers, that's hard. And the act of verifying should take less energy/work than the act of transferring the packets.

Maybe an income system with tokens do not fit mixnets or tor-like networks.

> You'd have to make packet transfer of TCP/IP verifiable by other peers, that's hard. Yes even I realized it, It's probably impossible, because both the sender or receiver can lie. I think you can only build a reputation based system for tor nodes.

But I see no reason why a reputation based system cannot work.

Neat 🙂

I like this but, not sure where it sits in the performance side!