(This is just a scummy marketing tactic for a fiction book)
Haven't had a chance to fully evaluate yet but I do like that they're taking inspiration from scifi.
The "Human Unique Identifier" is supposed to solve Sybil Attacks. But I don't see how if the enrollment of new users is decentralized bad actors can't simply generate new retinas / HUIDs and enroll them in the system, then use those identities to sway online elections, commit fraud, mine disproportionately more coins, etc.
I'm always looking for fun sci-fi, but the book by Dan Jeffries doesn't contain much of this tech, which was disappointing. It was an OK read otherwise. I think "Infomocracy" was better and contained more novel concepts.
It appears they're envisioning an encrypted microkernel which digests the bio data, generates a public key, and pushes it to a blockchain filled with similar data for the whole world population. So I suppose they could be planning to build some kind of signature into the microkernel itself so that outgoing messages sent from a patched or fraudulent process would be noticed. So I guess that could be used to prevent against the even simpler attack of generating the digests of the biodata, as opposed to the biodata itself.
Still, it all seems pretty hand-wavy.
The iris of a living been do not change with age ?
A search for Dan Jeffries cicada turns up some related material. Seems strange that the link to the book on the iamcicada page doesn't explicitly spell out the author's relationship to the project.
Maybe somewhere along the way, he decided to go pseudonymous? I'm sure he's an HNer, maybe he'll weigh in.
FWIW, I like most of the ideas here.
[1] https://github.com/the-laughing-monkey/cicada-platform/blob/...
This sounds like a framework. Not a good idea. You'll eventually find something that the framework cannot support, but you've over thought everything, so adding that is next to impossible, so time for a rewrite.
FWIW- I do agree they overthought everything.
It all comes full circle with Cryptocurrency first being described in Cryptonomicon.
Haven't had a chance to dig through all its claims.
Really? That's crazy! I always thought that Stephenson had heard early ideas about cryptocurrencies and incorporated them into his book.
Are you saying the Neil Stephenson invented the concept of a cryptocurrency?
