Johan Pouwelse

_brainstorm_ Gold is a unique metal with [unique legal position](https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/stcrt-2020-30127.html) and unique [online culture](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gold+bar+stacking). Below is a concrete master thesis direction with a deliberate sensational and provocative focus. This is...

- Climate angle or scientific angle: msc title/draft/direction: "Trust in Gold: decentralised offline payments" - experiment: decentralised gold vaults, picture of swapping a token for physical gold with multiple international...

- first draft of survey :+1: - wealth of links can also be added with minimal space and attention. Keep focus {mostly} - ready for first draft taxonomy table on...

Your GoldEuro, Bitcoin, and Bittorrent are optimal disruptors! Please go beyond your current boring requirements (unforgability,transferability). Motivation: [If financial market competition is intense, why are financial firm profits so high?...

- Solid survey! Text could use more polish and smoother running sentences. - "TABLE I LIST OF ALL DESCRIBED SCHEMES", add more informative 'offline transaction' - Wall of text, not...

- Solid writing! - ```III. Double Spending. Unlike online e-cash schemes, offline schemes do not have access to a trusted third party, or at least the entity responsible for issuing...

- ```TABLE I: List of all described offline e-cash schemes```, you uncovered 30 years of evolving offline e-cash? - Just 10 papers in 30 years? Add more, even the 'extreme'...

We discussed the various possible thesis directions: usability side with prior designs, real gold trail, or the hardcore crypto designs. Thesis has initial running code as of 18Dec 2023. In...

- :tada: Running code !!! - end-to-end test with mocked IPv8 community :+1: - implemented crypto scheme is _not_ offline transferable - Two way or 1-way communication or both? -...

- Funny story, when you're on page 7 of Scholar.Google you're really diving deep - Can the design from Bengal be implemented? - this makes it 4-5 designs which can...