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Paul Frazee
Personal blog · paulfrazee.medium.comprogrammingeconomics
Paul Frazee's personal blog at paulfrazee.medium.com covers programming and economics. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Execution Transparency – Hosted smart contracts using secure, append-only logs”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Paul Frazee's posts on decentralised systems, such as public transaction logs without central blockchains and the AT Protocol. Comments mostly cite them as background for protocol discussions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Execution Transparency – Hosted smart contracts using secure, append-only logs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-22
What Hacker News says?
I’ve been writing a bit about that idea https://paulfrazee.medium.com/productizing-p2p-bff5aed95f6a
Comment linking /productizing-p2p-bff5aed95f6a
on “Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship”Submitted Back to basics: what is the point of decentralization? as a story · 29 points
HN discussionPaul Frazee & others had some good threads last fall/winter about smart contracts/public transaction logs without central/concensus blockchains[1]. Individuals with their own willingness to declare their stuff. Edit: Oh this got followed up on Paul's direction is a little different than expected; Ii has come out a little less self sovereign than I expected. But, here's[2] Vitra. His follow up.ppst talks about Execut…
Comment linking /execution-transparency-hosted-smart-contracts-using-secure-append-only-logs-51c35b3d057f
on “Consensus not censorship”Submitted Smart Contracts Without Blockchains as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI've found that question about bitcoin protocol governance rather interesting, wrote a bit about it here: https://paulfrazee.medium.com/the-rules-to-make-the-rules-be... In summary, after a fair bit of research-from-home and talking to a couple of people deeply in the bitcoin space, I'm still not sure who really holds the reigns.
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on “Brad Feld: I Don't Hate Crypto”Submitted The Rules to Make the Rules as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAT proto has some significant similarities to Matrix: * Both are work by self-authenticating git-style replication of Merkle trees/DAGs * Both define strict data schemas for extensible sets of events (Matrix uses JSON schema - https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/tree/main/data/eve... and OpenAPI; AT uses Lexicons) * Both use HTTPS for client-server and server-server traffic by default. * Both are focused on de…
Comment linking /the-anti-parler-principles-for-decentralized-social-networking-80a490909b38
on “The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s*”Submitted ICANNs vs. Blockchains as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Execution Transparency – Hosted smart contracts using secure, append-only logs as a story · 1 points
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