nobody wants to co-own, everybody wants to own

is ethereum owned, co-owned, public, or something else? interesting discussion with @shazow.eth curious to hear what others think

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

Currently: WhatsABI

is ethereum owned, co-owned, public, or something else? interesting discussion with @shazow.eth curious to hear what others think

https://warpcast.com/nonlinear.eth/0xe21fe9d2

Gotta define ownership first. If you define it as the ability to exclude others from the resource then it's not owned by anybody because spinning up a node is permissionless

For the sake of having some common ground, let's go off a definition like this:

Interested in ZK, FHE, PUFs, hardware, system design, ai safety, and smart contact security.

I think this is a fine definition (although I don't think the conversation is limited to private property). As a genera rule for discussions/arguments I think it's a good idea for everyone to dissect a definition first before devolving into an argument about semantics lol

For sure! Do you have a fav definition that would be better?

I'm not sure if I do. It's a topic I've been exploring my thoughts on a bit recently. I've started thinking about it as access to a resource on the spectrum of the ability to exclude, from freely available for anyone to complete destruction and no longer available for anyone.

But I don't think it's fleshed out enough to start using in discussion