So this is basically a blockchain, but with transactions instead of blocks, and diverging-then-converging graph instead of a linear sequence of blocks (like a real family graph instead of just one-parent-one-child families common in blockchains). Looks nice, what are the problems with the approach? (the paper only lists the benefits).
Reminds me of a cryptocurrency for the gift economy that I'm working on. Each coin is unique and valued subjectively by each person. <a href="https://github.com/jchris/document-coin" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jchris/document-coin</a>
Note that base58 for addresses was generally considered a mistake - there's a replacement for Bitcoin proposed here: <a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0173.mediawiki" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0173.mediawi...</a>
Yeah, I'm done with this "scientific" tone, this PDF thing and so on. What is in this paper that couldn't be posted as HTML in a web page? How is PDF better compared to that?