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Re:Ethereum fixes serious “eclipse” flaw by osteele on Saturday March 03, 2018 @11:46AM (#16510102)
> The main ledger and smart contracts should be separated, everyone smart contract is public, why??

You might find Blockstack interesting.

(I don’t have a connection. I’ve just started to explore this space, and have some of those same questions.)

[1] https://blockstack.org/

[2] Jude, “What is the difference between blockstack and Ethereum?”, Blockstack forum, March ‘17. https://forum.blockstack.org/t/what-is-the-difference-betwee...

[3] Alid Castano, “What is the difference between Blockstack and Ethereum?”, Sept. 13 ‘17. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Blockst...

[4] Alid Castano, “Why I’m betting on Blockstack to save the decentralized internet”, Sept. 12 ‘17. https://medium.com/@alidcastano/why-im-betting-on-blockstack...

Re:Ethereum fixes serious “eclipse” flaw by elmar on Sunday March 04, 2018 @03:23AM (#16513769)
> You might find Blockstack interesting.

I didn't know this project I normally hate ICO's (including the original Ethereum ICO) from what I have read on the information you so kindly shared it looks like a much more sensible approach to the distributed permissionless application problem, let's see how it goes.