Re:The challenge of decentralized marketplaces
by tribler on Monday May 29, 2017 @03:30AM
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interesting. Are their implementations of ipex-project.org ideas?
Re:The challenge of decentralized marketplaces
by contingencies on Monday May 29, 2017 @07:35AM
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I don't claim ownership of any ideas, but find the overall public advancement (or arguable lack thereof) in the cryptocurrency arena pretty interesting. My interpretation of the older paper in question is that it is some kind of hard-coded Bitcoin blockchain/sidechain centric multi-asset balance based reputation system: To keep this project realistic, the focus will be on re-using existing code, to support only Bitcoin-Multichain trading, only use a single market maker, and offer no anonymity or DDoS protection.
Frankly this sounds like a pretty toy / naive implementation of multi-asset / multi-settlement-system reasoning given the year of publication. However, it's still great to see people pushing in this direction, and I certainly don't mean to dissuade anyone.
Searching some referenced papers I found http://projectm-online.com/investing/the-value-of-trust/ which is IMHO a nice high level treatment of the space.
The paper questionably approaches the subject theoretically through a pre-digital era reference which divides trust through conventional relations of 1990s society, which is of dubious currency.
It also refers to prior work from the same university https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:c1816da8... which appears to be a BS thesis on settlement-system neutral market protocols, post-dating my own published work on the same - http://www.ifex-project.org/our-proposals/ifex/2012-04-11-pa... - by some five (4-5) years.
The treatment of trust in decentralized networks is high level only and in parts not of an academic quality of writing, for example making inferences that 15 years of prior formal work is valueless because it has not been publicly deployed.