Cicada – Decentralized Application and Direct Democracy Platform

Some egomaniac kids are at it again, changing the world with shower ideas and stuff!<p>(This is just a scummy marketing tactic for a fiction book)

Branding and name immediately reminded me of Cicada 3301: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cicada_3301" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cicada_3301</a><p>Haven&#x27;t had a chance to fully evaluate yet but I do like that they&#x27;re taking inspiration from scifi.

When I first saw this site a few months ago I got quite excited. I was looking for a solution to Sybil Attacks so I liked it on github and read the whitepaper.<p>The &quot;Human Unique Identifier&quot; is supposed to solve Sybil Attacks. But I don&#x27;t see how if the enrollment of new users is decentralized bad actors can&#x27;t simply generate new retinas &#x2F; HUIDs and enroll them in the system, then use those identities to sway online elections, commit fraud, mine disproportionately more coins, etc.<p>I&#x27;m always looking for fun sci-fi, but the book by Dan Jeffries doesn&#x27;t contain much of this tech, which was disappointing. It was an OK read otherwise. I think &quot;Infomocracy&quot; was better and contained more novel concepts.

Not sure I see how this avoids an inevitable mining arms race (if it is indeed claiming to avoid such a thing). Even if miners are randomly drafted into random pools, the more miners you create, the more income. Seems like a very game-able system.

There&#x27;s another novel relevant to this idea: Bruce Sterling&#x27;s Distraction [1] describes groups of people (&#x27;Moderators&#x27; and &#x27;Regulators&#x27;) who live under alternative, network-moderated social contracts (&#x27;reputation servers&#x27;). In Sterling&#x27;s book, these &#x27;proles&#x27; live without money, but earn positive reputation for engaging in pro-social behaviour. They are not under the boot-heel of the state.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goodreads.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;show&#x2F;218566.Distraction" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goodreads.com&#x2F;book&#x2F;show&#x2F;218566.Distraction</a>

This technobabble reads as some of the most horrifying dystopian cyberpunk fantasy I can possibly imagine

White paper: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;the-laughing-monkey&#x2F;cicada-platform&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;README.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;the-laughing-monkey&#x2F;cicada-platform&#x2F;blob&#x2F;...</a>

...is this a parody?

Overthinking it. The internet is great because it is as simple as a bunch of computers talking via socket connections. Do <i>that</i> but with encryption. Let everything else grow the way it wants to.<p>This sounds like a framework. Not a good idea. You&#x27;ll eventually find something that the framework cannot support, but you&#x27;ve over thought everything, so adding that is next to impossible, so time for a rewrite.

Another scam-coin designed to take money from 14 year olds. What is this doing on the frontpage of HN?

I was duped into reading this a few months back. The entire page is total nonsense, promising to solve all of the world&#x27;s problems without having a clue about anything. HN sinked to new depths for me by having this on the front page :&#x2F;

The first thing I notice is quite remarkable, this is a cryptocurrency inspired by a science fiction novel??<p>It all comes full circle with Cryptocurrency first being described in Cryptonomicon.<p>Haven&#x27;t had a chance to dig through all its claims.

Until they solve the UX problem, this is useless.

How does this relate to Richard Hendrick&#x27;s work with middle-out compression as the basis for a new internet?