| The content in this article about anti-spam techniques is fascinating. But the title should be edited to indicate its vintage: 2014. Also, by the by, there is some interesting context about the author (Mike Hearn) and his recent activities that are not related to the topic of spam. Warning: off-topic digression below. Mike Hearn became one of the most visible Bitcoin core developers, working in that community for 5 years, until a well-publicized departure where he declared Bitcoin a failure[0]. He then joined R3CEV, a startup venture that is building a private blockchain platform for a consortium of 70 of the world's largest banks. Hearn's departure was criticized by members of the cryptocurrency community, such as Bram Cohen, who famously called his exit a "whiny ragequit" [1]. Regardless about how one feels about the internal politics of the bitcoin dev community, the R3 project is technically interesting (to me, at least) because it uses Kotlin [2], a JVM-based functional language, and also because it has some interesting design approaches that depart from the established bitcoin blockchain model [3]. I still think that private blockchain platforms have an uphill battle if they want to compete for developer attention with rapidly evolving broad-based platforms like Ethereum and Bitcoin, but the R3 Corda platform is nevertheless worth tracking. [0] https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin... [1] https://medium.com/@bramcohen/whiny-ragequitting-cab164b1e88 [2] https://twitter.com/hhariri/status/790077263572299780 [3] https://gendal.me/2016/10/25/r3-corda-what-makes-it-differen... |
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The debate about permissioned vs. permissionless blockchains ties back into Hearn's thoughts on privacy.
It will be fascinating to see how his work on Corda develops compared to its permissionless competitors.