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Quote from: Snail2 on March 24, 2015, 09:39:56 AM

Indeed, but according to figure 4 they are thinking about a distributed cloud based solution. So I guess that will be some sort of semi-decentralized network with trusted nodes and lightweight clients.

You are a master of diplomacy! Other people would call it "kludge".

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Quote from: Come-from-Beyond on March 24, 2015, 08:30:18 AM

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And for this, the “blockchain” offers a very elegant solution.

The scalability issue is not solved yet. "Elegant" doesn't seem to suit there.

Indeed, but according to figure 4 they are thinking about a distributed cloud based solution. So I guess that will be some sort of semi-decentralized network with trusted nodes and lightweight clients.

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The best part of Device Democracy is definitely these paragraphs:

Winners will:
• Enable decentralized peer-to-peer systems that allow for
very low cost, privacy and long term sustainability in
exchange for less direct control of data
• Prepare for highly efficient, real-time digital marketplaces
built on physical assets and services with new measures of
credit and risk
• Design for meaningful user experiences, rather than try to
build large ecosystems or complex network solutions.

Losers will:
• Continue to invest in and support high-cost infrastructure,
and be unmindful of security and privacy that can lead to
decades of balance sheet overhead
• Fight for control of ecosystems and data, even when they
have no measure of what its value will be
• Attempt to build ecosystems but lose sight of the value
created, probably slowing adoption and limiting the usage of
their solutions

Actually they did a great job on that Whitepaper. I like it!

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Quote from: notbatman on March 24, 2015, 06:33:58 AM

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And for this, the “blockchain” offers a very elegant solution.

The scalability issue is not solved yet. "Elegant" doesn't seem to suit there.

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Sounds like interesting read, I'll study this more when I have a bit more free time.

I was curious whether they've mentioned Bitcoin at all, or try to look like they came with an idea of blockchain by themselves. But yup, they did:

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A technology breakthrough that has fundamentally changed
our notions of centralized authority, the blockchain is a
universal digital ledger that functions at the heart of decentralized
financial systems such as Bitcoin, and increasingly, many
other decentralized systems.

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While the blockchain may carry regulatory and economic risk
as a long-term store of value (as in the case of Bitcoin), it can
be quite revolutionary as a transaction processing tool.

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The greatest challenge, however, is not in simply building a
decentralized IoT, but one that can scale universally while
maintaining private, secure and trustless transactions. In other
words, the IoT represents a case of billions of players, not all of
which can be trusted – some even malicious – with a need for
some form of validation and consensus. And for this, the
“blockchain” offers a very elegant solution.

http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/gb/en/gbe03620usen/GBE03620USEN.PDF

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