Using hash-of-validation-WASM as a state key is a really cool idea and I'm excited to see how it goes operationally.
Using (blinded) proof of donation as an anti-abuse signal is a clever band-aid but seems fraught in the long term. Is there a plan to switch off of it to something less centralized, or is it staying this way until it causes problems?
> Using hash-of-validation-WASM as a state key is a really cool idea and I'm excited to see how it goes operationally.
Thank you :)
> Using (blinded) proof of donation as an anti-abuse signal is a clever band-aid but seems fraught in the long term.
Agreed.
> Is there a plan to switch off of it to something less centralized, or is it staying this way until it causes problems?
These blind trust tokens are a proof-of-concept because while it is anonymous and has the benefit of funding the project, it is centralized which is far from ideal.
Proof-of-work could be used as a decentralized mechanism for mitigating abuse but I don't like deliberately burning energy. I quite like a concept called "proof-of-trust" that I describe here [1], but the design needs to be fleshed out.
Using (blinded) proof of donation as an anti-abuse signal is a clever band-aid but seems fraught in the long term. Is there a plan to switch off of it to something less centralized, or is it staying this way until it causes problems?