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   Hélène (helene@p.helene.moe)'s status on Friday, 16-Sep-2022 21:14:06 JST Hélène
   used to talk about cryptography here but i stopped doing it, and some people thought i was a cryptobro
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     marcille_ebooks ??:coffefiedred: (schappi@mk.toast.cafe)'s status on Friday, 16-Sep-2022 21:17:28 JST marcille_ebooks ??:coffefiedred:

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     @helene@p.helene.moe cryptosis (talks about secure encryption algorithms)

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     yaxisbtc :bitcoin: (y@pasta.wtf)'s status on Friday, 16-Sep-2022 22:08:29 JST yaxisbtc :bitcoin:

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     cryptobros are truly ruining everything, one can no longer talk about distributed systems because the conversation always derails into crypto
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     Hélène (helene@p.helene.moe)'s status on Friday, 16-Sep-2022 22:10:30 JST Hélène

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     @y i mean cryptocurrency can be nice examples sometimes and there's novelty in them a lot of the time, especially monero and stuff like that
     but i wish they weren't the only "reason" to talk about these things
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 16-Sep-2022 22:16:31 JST Sexy Moon

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     @helene @y had a nice discussion about kademlia dht the other day
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     Hélène (helene@p.helene.moe)'s status on Friday, 16-Sep-2022 22:17:10 JST Hélène

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     @Moon @y was it related to revolver or taylor's network idea?
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 16-Sep-2022 22:19:34 JST Sexy Moon

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     • yaxisbtc :bitcoin:
     @helene @y tox, actually and "why isn't fedi using a p2p system" (we should be developing a p2p naming system)
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     Hélène (helene@p.helene.moe)'s status on Friday, 16-Sep-2022 22:19:48 JST Hélène

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     @Moon @y isn't that something GNUnet has?
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 16-Sep-2022 22:20:32 JST Sexy Moon

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     • yaxisbtc :bitcoin:
     @helene @y i need to try it again.
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     yaxisbtc :bitcoin: (y@pasta.wtf)'s status on Friday, 16-Sep-2022 22:22:49 JST yaxisbtc :bitcoin:

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     yes I think you're right, personally it helped me a lot because the area was getting boring after the death of the 2000s big p2p networks, but everytime I try to talk about consensus people think that I'm talking about Nakamoto's consensus which is frustrating
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     yaxisbtc :bitcoin: (y@pasta.wtf)'s status on Friday, 16-Sep-2022 22:23:41 JST yaxisbtc :bitcoin:

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     also the lack of formalism in the cryptocurrency space makes somewhat difficult to do research work on top of it
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     Hélène (helene@p.helene.moe)'s status on Friday, 16-Sep-2022 22:25:09 JST Hélène

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     @y depends which
     btc and xmr tend to formalise a lot, others probably do too
     but it does suffer a lot from the "i'm programming" thing for something that needs to be rock solid and based on a lot of mathematical concepts and theory
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     yaxisbtc :bitcoin: (y@pasta.wtf)'s status on Friday, 16-Sep-2022 22:35:27 JST yaxisbtc :bitcoin:

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     imo, the btc original paper is horrible in that regard but maybe things are getting better
     
     honestly, research in distributed systems in general is historically very formal (with a lot of theorical proofs and stuff like that) and phreaps shouldn't be that way anymore, idk ?
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