> Best thing we could do for the planet would be to develop a technology that kills TTTSNBN dead
Let’s do it. PoS already uses 99.95% less energy than PoW. Perhaps we can do better.
mike
From: ietf <ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Phillip Hallam-Baker
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Subject: Re: [admin-discuss] Next steps towards a net zero IETF
OK, I am going to say something that is going to make a lot of people annoyed. But hold on.
This issue of carbon credits being bogus is actually one of the incredibly rate problems for which TTTSNBN[*] could actually be used for. Of course, there is the fact that TTTSNBN is absolutely the most stupid and wasteful technology on the planet but some form of cryptographically authenticated, append only log technology is actually something that could be used to provide transparency in a carbon credit scheme.
OK so what can IETF participants do?
Best thing we could do for the planet would be to develop a technology that kills TTTSNBN dead. That instantly saves 0.5% of emissions from electricity generation.
Next best thing we could do is to fix carbon credits so that they are more transparent.
Finally, IETF can meet less often in plenary session. Meeting three times a year is a very poor application of time and resources. I understand the reasons, I do not find them persuasive.
Now before folk get started, note that I said 'IETF participants' not IETF. I am pretty sure that there are many here with the skills. Is this the right venue? Probably not.
I do have something of a scheme though. If folk look at my Mesh technology, they will see that the latest version makes use of cross notarized Merkle-tree indexed logs as a basic primitive. So every Mesh user generates their own notary log which is their ground truth. Users periodically cross notarize with their Mesh Service Provider which in turn cross notarizes with the Mesh callsign service. Thus every personal Mesh notary log is meshed to every other.
What this gives is a better, more robust notary log than TTTSNBN without any proof of waste whatsoever.
Another interesting feature of the next release is that the Mesh Messaging client allows every Mesh user to be their own Messaging service provider. Which might have some interesting implications with respect to some legislation being proposed in my native country.
[*] The Technology That Shall Not Be Named.
Proof of Stake is what has enabled all these crypto-Ponzi schemes, it introduced the notion of getting paid 'interest' on your crypto. Yes, I know that Etheruem only started POS recently but the idea that it 'might happen' was enough for the FTX fraud.
There is no need to create a fake currency to prevent rollback attacks on a digest chain. Don't need proof of work or proof of stake or any fake currency. All you need is to mesh all the chains together so that 1) nobody can defect without the defection being visible and 2) everyone becomes their own ground truth for evaluating notarized signatures - provided they were running their own notary log at the time.
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 9:05 PM Michael McBride <michael.mcbride@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
