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The only way to fix the architecture is to create a smaller, physically constrained state-space utilizing intentionally physically costly bits of information. In other words, a proof-of-work network.

pebble (b/acc) 2y ago

You're right. Just like Adam Back's email proof of work proposal.

Such an integration would come at the network level. All Yggdrasil nodes, for example, would need to not pass a packet unless there is a proof of work attached with similar difficulty to other packets. This is the only way to reduce spam.

I don't see how this blends in with monetization of maintaining the network however. Would there also need to be routing fees, or is a computer network just considered a community investment at this point?

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Primordial🦌 2y ago

Bitcoin IS the modern internet architecture. A satoshi can represent any kind of information.

pebble (b/acc) 2y ago

I think you mean that all network messages will be passed between bitcoin and lightning nodes. This way, every message must have a value attached to it.

Communication rails in the future internet will take place over dedicated physical links between lightning nodes.

There is an app that uses lightning as a transport already. https://sphinx.chat

Thank you for clarifying.

Primordial🦌 2y ago

I mean, literally, that the bits of information secured on the Bitcoin network can be used to represent any kind of information. The Bitcoin protocol is a new kind of internet architecture that simply has a physically constrained state-space.

Instead of an internet architecture where bits of information are trivial to create, it's an internet architecture where the bits of information are intentionally difficult to create and send.

People don't understand Bitcoin this way because they are so used to abstracting away the complexity of machine code and what's happened at the bottom of the tech stack. All they do is focus on modern programming language at the top of the stack.. so they are blind the what's happening at the bottom.