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Flatus Vocis is a repository for spontaneous ideas in decentralized p2p design scenarios ("blockchain tech"). Posts are optimised for uberty over certainty, and are intended mainly to bootstrap musement. Chew before ingesting. Google unfamiliar terms until familiar.

How to protect your privacy in a DAO

How to protect your privacy in a DAO

Blockchains might be 100% transparent, but it’s easy enough to prevent your privacy being compromised.
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Arlyn Culwick
Aug 25, 2020
XRouter’s monetisation system: a design

XRouter’s monetisation system: a design

Incentivising people to run full nodes, while enabling dapps to interact trustlessly with any chain, without their hosting a chain locally.
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Arlyn Culwick
Jul 2, 2020
A design for decentralized organisations: part 4

A design for decentralized organisations: part 4

In part 3, I introduced the pivotal role that self-sovereignty plays in permitting performant decentralization at scale, and noted how…
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Arlyn Culwick
Mar 5, 2019
A design for decentralized organisations: part 3

A design for decentralized organisations: part 3

In part 2 of this series, I discussed methods to scale communication in decentralized organisations, and recommended the use of a…
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Arlyn Culwick
Mar 5, 2019
A design for decentralized organisations: part 2

A design for decentralized organisations: part 2

In part 1 of this series, I introduced four virtues that define the design space of decentralized organisations insofar as they are…
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Arlyn Culwick
Mar 5, 2019
A design for decentralized organisations: part 1

A design for decentralized organisations: part 1

The world of crypto is rich in attempts at decentralized project-governance — many of them functioning merely to signal that an ICO…
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Arlyn Culwick
Mar 5, 2019
Harmonic quanta: DEX order matching that generates no change

Harmonic quanta: DEX order matching that generates no change

One of the snags in atomic swaps is that if you place, say, 1 BTC on sale, and a counterparty takes 0.3 BTC, then the remaining 0.7 BTC…
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Arlyn Culwick
Jul 17, 2018
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