Tokenization: Life beyond the Information Age

TokenizationLife beyond the information age

> whoami

Satoshi Nakamoto

> whoami

Satoshi Nakamoto

Shannon Code

● Hacker

● Developer

● Tester

● Futurist

> pwd

Loyyal

● Loyalty and rewards platform

● EVM (Smart contracts)

● Base class: “Everything is an agent”

○ Everything has an address

○ Everything can hold value

○ Everything can transfer value

Decentric

● Fun experimental stuff

> ssh tokenization@allthingsopen

From the Printing Press

To Blockchain

Beyond...

Industrial age

Information age

Imagination age

> history

Printing Press

> history

Gutenberg galaxy (Global village) Bandwidth: Rapid spread of information

Parallelize: Shared scientific research

Economics: Inexpensive paper

Latency: Faster than using a scribe

> cd ..

Proof of work

> history

● Computation

○ Slow

○ Required engineers

○ Fragile

○ Expensive

> history

● Computation

○ Slow

○ Required engineers

○ Fragile

○ Expensive

● Network

○ Fragmented

○ Expensive

● Storage

○ Card

○ Tape media

> gzip SEQUEL > sql

● Optimization

○ Math

○ Abstraction

> mv physical/things.tar.gz digital/things.tar.gz

Digitize all of the things

> fsck

● Problems

○ Digital *things* can be copied at little to no cost

○ Digital *things* can still be deleted

○ Digital *things* can still be forged

○ Digital *things* can still be lost

● Solutions?

○ Centralization

■ Bank

■ ISP

○ Consortium

■ Media companies

■ News outlets

■ Government

○ Much more...

> segfault

> sudo reboot

● Blockchain

○ Cryptography

○ Peer 2 Peer

○ Distributed computing

○ Virtualization

> ssh blockchain@information.age

> ./beyond

“Would I design my software differently if each execution had a cost”

“What can I make if I can eliminate the need for trust”

“If I can create a digital *thing* that only one can exist & only in one place”

> cd /usr/demo

Let’s make something

> ./blockchain.media

> ...

Each audio frame hash is stored and references the previous stored hash.

● Proof

○ Has this been altered

○ Are frames missing

○ Which frames are missing / altered

● Identity

○ With only 3 frames identify the source

> ./watermark.media

● Generate Keys

○ Create QR from address

○ Encrypt key-pair

> ./watermark.media

Add qr code to id3 tag

<coverArt>[image]</coverArt>

> ./watermark.media

> ./watermark.media

> ./watermark.media

● Sign watermarked media

> ./watermark.media

● Verify signature

● Add signature to id3 tag

● Share

./odeokee

http://allthingsopen.odeokee.com/

Artist: SaiephTitle: Enigmatritonic_CryptophasmAlbum: Quenvalys

1Bz8ctuZmQVvcaQKdj3z1UHX4cZ6NqxjBn

./credits

Collaboration with Trusted Audio

./address