Civil is back, Golem proposes Model 0 for Sybil attack resistance, and prominent Ethereans introduce an Community Code of Conduct.
Your daily distillation of crypto for Wednesday, March 6, 2019:
Civil: From Ash to Phoenix
Starting today, both newsrooms and the public can the Civil network. However, the platform has drastically changed and shifted its focus since the team’s to reach its soft cap last October.
One of the main features of the rebooted Civil platform is its membership program. Members will receive Civil that represent their voting power on the Civil Registry. Rather than individuals purchasing in a , CVL will be distributed to members relative to how much they donate to the Civil Foundation.
Further, newsrooms that join the network will be able to archive their content on the platform’s Publisher service. Qualified newsrooms will also receive a small grant in CVL from the Civil Foundation. Of course, member newsrooms will be part of the Civil Registry and therefore must abide by the journalistic standards outlined in the Civil Constitution.
Golem’s Model 0
Marcin Benke, Jakub Konka, and Łukasz Gleń from Golem – with some help from María Paula Fernández – today posted an article addressing potential threats to P2P networks. Through its research, Golem has arrived at Model 0, which “contemplates two main threats” to these networks: Sybil attacks and when “rational parties find it profitable to cheat.”
Model 0 sketches a possible solution to these threats whereby parties are secured against malicious counterparties, though the team notes that this method is “rather basic” and “uses very limited tools.” However, the model shows that network participants can manage their risks “reasonably well on [their] own” in such a P2P environment.
The model is described in further technical detail on Golem’s .
Conduct Yourself, Ethereans
Jamie Pitts of the Foundation and María Paula Fernández of Golem recently a Community Code of Conduct (CoC) for . The is not focused on individual teams or institutions but rather a decentralized community more broadly. Further, the CoC advises community members to try “to eliminate the adverse side-effects of power.”
The CoC essentially codifies respect and kindness, including statements against discrimination, prejudice, and breaches of privacy. of the code, of course, is voluntary.
The document is being maintained by the Fellowship of Magicians’ Integrity Ring.
Dani is a full-time writer for ETHNews. He received his bachelor’s degree in English writing from the University of Nevada, Reno, where he also studied journalism and queer theory. In his free time, he writes poetry, plays the piano, and fangirls over fictional characters. He lives with his partner, three , and two in the middle of nowhere, Nevada.
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Published at Wed, 06 Mar 2019 20:09:17 +0000
