Manfred Touron

Blockchain

13 pages about "Blockchain"

Git Blockchain

The idea

A blockchain that works over Git.

Git already supports:

  • cryptography signatures (git commit -S)
  • multi approver signatures (git commit --signoff)

It’s technically possible to port the consensus workflow using basic git commands.

By adding a CI/CD bot/script, it becomes possible to have an equivalent of smart-contracts that only allows people to open pull-requests while having a robot to make the merges.

Finally, we can find about having a proof-of-stakes approach based on git contributions or something more centralized as a .forgers.txt file that defines allowed forgers.

Challenges

Find other parts of what makes a blockchain:

  • how-to define/allow/deny a node to be a forger in a distributed way
  • create a small utility that makes the git commands automatically
  • automatically generates with the CI/CD a static blockchain explorer

Usages

No idea yet.

It can be used as a pedagogical support to learn how the blockchain works.

OSMOSE Hackathon 20/21 april, 2019

Few days ago, I organised and hosted a Hackathon at Berty.

Two days of code and startup-design with friends, a new network, new opportunities, new ideas, and a lot of fun.

Who

  • Berty (me)
  • Osmose (Zooma & Zaraki)
  • La suite du monde (Adrien)
  • Busy (Ekitcho)
  • Independants (Loup, Norman)

Topics

  • Projects presentations
  • Discuss about “how to work together”
  • Focus on code

What we’ve done

  • Meet people
    • New friends
    • New colleagues ? :)
  • Refactor if the web radio of Osmose / La suite du monde
    • Using with Liquidsoap, Docker, Icecast, Golang
    • Plan to plug it with Discord / Telegram to interact with users
  • Automate “La suite du monde” processes (onboarding, federation, delegation, scouting, etc…)
    • With Airtable, Zapier, custom scripts
    • Leboncoin / Seloger scraping with Scrapy (Python)
  • Discussions about Blockchain
    • General discussions to raise the knowledge of everyone
    • Main net / Test net / Token Economy
    • Comparisons
    • Features planning
    • Blockchain-based project architectures
    • DPOS strategy for Berty
    • La suite du monde strategy
    • Osmose strategy
    • Busy strategy
    • Blockchains comparisons
  • Architecture of an event ticketing & wallet system based on the blockchain
  • Fun
    • Blobby Volley, Jackbox
    • Nom nom nom
    • IRL Cryptography/Steganography game (fake telepathy)

Volatile Blockchain / Temporary Blockchain

The idea

Merge the concepts of

  • “Connected Blockchains” (see https://cosmos.network for a good example)
  • Autonomous networks that support split & merge

To obtain a way of creating a temporary blockchain in an autonomous network that can exists over mesh network (bluetooth, isolated networks, isolated countries, etc).

Challenges

  • Determine the best consensus rules that allows a smaller network to “take decisions”
  • Offer the option to automatically convert the temporary coin to a permanent coin as soon as networks are merged

Examples

  • Create a temporary blockchain for a music festival, allow people to convert their existing permanent coins to the temporary money, lose internet during the event, and then translate-back the unused temporary coins