Johan Pouwelse

Churn and NAT traversal are critical concepts. All peers keep open connections with several neighbors to fix this. We need an algorithm to traverse such _live edges_. 

This will be moved earlier in the roadmap. Multi-chain will evolve with numerous small steps into this envisioned perfect system. - [X] append-only datastructure - [X] payout to seeders -...

_branching concept_ Two main issues with current multi-chain design is the exclusive nature of signatures and the need for a blocksize. We want to get rid of 1) bloat and...

ToDo: merge major/minor seq idea, half-signed+revert.

design dream 1: if you do not follow the protocol, you never get any of the benefits. design dream 2: protocol violations by design result in an irrefutable "proof-of-misbehavior". design...

future approach: - split mechanism and policy - tunnel comunity gives stats to a TrustModule - Multichain is a mechanism without a scheduler - TrustModule decides to request a signature

As of today we have a design freeze of multi-chain. It is far from feature complete, merely a _dry run_ of a concrete design. Accurate accounting of the totals is...

This week the _alpha version of multichain_ got merged. Solid progress, this is 2 months after the idea of an alpha took root. We assume no redesign is needed.. The...

ToDo on the foundations of trust: - Find state-of-the-art work around [evolution of cooperation](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=evolution+of+cooperation) - also [reciprocal altruism](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=reciprocal+altruism) , [public goods game](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=public+goods+game) - [Incentives and Prosocial Behavior](http://psydok.psycharchives.de/jspui/bitstream/20.500.11780/1104/1/dp1695.pdf) good work with...

Reputation systems are linked to both game theory and smart contracts. Our upcoming 'smarter smart contracts' work requires enforcement mechanisms. This is brought together in [self-enforcing protocols](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=20&q=self-enforcing+protocol) : - [Wise...