Forwarded from 401 Ian Grigg (@RamonQuesada)
ÂżQuien es Ian Grigg?

Ian Grigg
Major project: Chamapesa.com Advisor at Akropolis, EOS, Mattereum, Knabu. Financial Cryptographer / Crypto-Plumber. Developed the Ricardo Transaction Engine from 1995-Present. Invented: Ricardian Contract, Triple-Entry Accounting. Defined “Financial Cryptography” http://iang.org/papers/fc7.html
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-grigg-0379/

CTO @Chamapesa: fighting for the user, issuing her assets since 1995. Assets are soft, users are hard. The issue isn’t the asset, the issue is you.
https://twitter.com/iang_fc

Financial Cryptography - Where the crypto rubber meets the Road of Finance

http://financialcryptography.com/

Financial Cryptography in 7 Layers
Ian Grigg 1998 - 2000
http://iang.org/papers/fc7.html

Ian Grigg & Eva Stowe Keynote - EOS Blockchain Governance (EOSæČ»ç†æĄ†æž¶) https://youtu.be/_gbfAJS3jjM

“La citaciĂłn tambiĂ©n solicita cualquier comunicaciĂłn con el criptĂłgrafo financiero Ian Grigg, el director ejecutivo del Centro para el Ciberespacio EstratĂ©gico + Ciencia de la Seguridad, Richard Zaluski, y el inversor de Bitcoin Roger Ver, entre otros.”
https://es.cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-pioneer-jeff-garzik-subpoenaed-in-4-bln-lawsuit-against-craig-wright

Before 2013 few people paid attention to Bitcoin and blockchain, yet even back in the 1990s a vibrant group of prioneers pursued the vision of financial cryptography and digital cash. One of these was financial cryptographer and software developer Ian Grigg, who today works as an architecture consultant for R3.
Grigg joined us for a discussion of the history of the digital cash, Bitcoin and his work on Ricardian Contracts, which foreshadowed today’s smart contracts.
Topics covered included:

The origin story of financial cryptography

DigiCash and the startup scene around it in the 1990s
Publicado el 3 oct. 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wokvO1ptE1k

There’s I guy called Ian Grigg who was involved in the early cypherpunks of the 90s ho is very knowledgeable about Ricardian contracts, which apparently are more expressive form of contract than smart contracts. Here is a podcast of his that the devs of Hashgraph might want to listen to. He’s now working on the EOS blockchain project. https://soundcloud.com/epicenterbitcoin/eb-151

151 – Ian Grigg: Ricardian Contracts And Digital Assets Prehistory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wokvO1ptE1k

Millions of transactions per second on EOS.IO blockchain | Interview Ian Grigg of Block.One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC6RYwYPnpU

In this last video he talks about the use of messaging rather than state reach consensus in a system. It seems similar to gossip approach in a way. He has a paper called Financial Cryptography in 7 Layers. He says that many projects fail because they don’t take into account all the various levels of knowledge needed for a successful decentralised system. Might be worth looking into also. http://iang.org/papers/fc7.htmlhttps://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-45472-1_23

May 04, 2017
“When I said that Craig was part of the team that was Satoshi Nakamoto - that statement sort of hung there and became an urban legend. You might recall that I made that statement in May of 2016, but within days, the events went out of control and it all collapsed”.
http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001617.html

[Cryptography] Proof-of-Satoshi fails Proof-of-Proof.
ianG iang@iang.org
Wed May 4 2016
Previous message: [Cryptography] Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto
http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2016-May/029323.html
The difference of two mindsets.

When BTC supporters think about next year, they think about where the price will be.

When BSV supporters think about next year, they think about how much the ecosystem is going to grow, and how much utility there will be.
Forwarded from Craig 300🗝 Personal (@RamonQuesada)
"I found him easier to talk to than I’d expected. Craig said his father had worked for the NSA (he couldn’t explain this), but that, to this day, his mother thinks he worked for Nasa. ‘The few people I care about I care about a lot,’ he said, ‘and I care about the state of the world. But there’s not much in between.’ He said he was happy I was writing about him because he wanted ‘to step into history’, but mainly because he wanted to tell the story of the brilliant people he had collaborated with. He and Ramona were both jet-lagged and anxious about things back home. ‘We should have been having our company’s Christmas party today,’ Ramona said".


"MacGregor asked Wright if being a libertarian had influenced his work, or if the work had turned him into a libertarian. ‘I was always libertarian,’ he replied, and then he told me his father had more or less kidnapped him after his parents got divorced. He hated being told what to do – that was one of his main motivations. He believed in freedom, and in what freedom would come to mean, and he said his work would guarantee a future in which privacy was protected. ‘Where we are,’ he said, ‘is a place where people can be private and part of that privacy is to be someone other than who they were. ..."

The Satoshi Affair.
Andrew O’Hagan in the #LRB:
30 June 2016
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n13/andrew-ohagan/the-satoshi-affair
Forwarded from Craig 300🗝 Personal (@RamonQuesada)
His mother, when I met her in Brisbane in March 2016, told me he was sometimes picked on at school. “He struggled,” she said, “but after a while I sent him to Padua College” — a Catholic boys’ school in Brisbane — “and he shone there. I mean, he was different. He used to dress up and he had an obsession with Japanese culture. He had big samurai swords.” https://www.theaustralian.com.au/weekend-australian-magazine/satoshi-nakamoto-craig-wright-and-the-bitcoin-mystery/news-story/e568c600a87700b2e2e981fa621a30ff
Forwarded from 401 Dave Kleiman 2013 (@RamonQuesada)
"Dave Kleiman was to become the most important person in Wright’s professional life, the man he says helped him do Satoshi’s work. They met online: they visited the same cryptography forums and had interacted since 2003. Both men were interested in cyber security, digital forensics and the future of money, but Kleiman was a boy’s boy, an army veteran who loved contact sports and fast living. Five foot ten and weighing 200 pounds, he lived in Riviera Beach, Florida, and from 1986 to 1990 he was an army helicopter technician. When I looked into Kleiman’s life, I discovered he had also done computer forensics work for Homeland Security and the army. After active service he became a deputy in the Palm Beach County sheriff’s office. A motorcycle crash in 1995, when he was 28, left him in a wheelchair. Kleiman was a drug user and one source told me he was heavily into online gambling and various illicit activities; there is evidence he was associated with Silk Road, the online marketplace for all things illegal. After the accident he devoted himself to computers, and set up a company called Computer Forensics LLC.

Until Napster (the brainchild of a teenager called Shawn Fanning) came along in 1999, enabling users to share music files across the internet without a central server, the phrase ‘peer-to-peer sharing’ was familiar only to the early internet’s true believers.​5 Napster, with its user-friendly interface, brought file-sharing to the masses. The old model of copyright and revenue generation became obsolete overnight: people stopped buying CDs; young people got music through the internet for free. The music industry had to reinvent itself or die. Wright told me that his earliest conversations with Kleiman were about file-sharing. In 2007 they wrote a study guide together on hacking. ‘I used to fire ideas off him,’ Wright said. ‘I’m pretty good at maths but I’m not very good at people.’ Kleiman, he said, could put up with his temper, which not everybody could. They began to speak of ways to use the Napster idea in other areas and solve some old problems in cryptography. Wright never, I have to say, made it fully clear how they had collaborated on building bitcoin. I kept returning to the subject, and my doubts would flare up when he failed to be explicit.

‘Give me a sense of how the idea of Satoshi formed,’ I said.

‘I guess,’ Wright replied, ‘the initial idea was having a pseudonymous head that wouldn’t be cut off.’

‘More your idea than his?’

‘Probably mine.’

‘And was there a point you realised you needed a figurehead?’ I asked.

‘We needed people to respond to us,’ he said. ‘But I didn’t really want people to respond to me. There are a couple of reasons for that. I don’t think I would really have sold the idea to anyone. If I’d come out originally as Satoshi without Dave, I don’t think it would have gone anywhere. I’ve had too many conversations with people who get annoyed because it’s me.’

‘The blockchain came about as an idea of a ledger,’ he said. ‘But there were a number of problems that needed to be solved. It needed to be distributed, but how do you make sure people don’t collude – it may seem awful but you don’t put trust in people, you incentivise people to act. And you incentivise people to act by giving them the opportunity to earn something. It’s as Adam Smith says: it’s not through the goodness of the heart, it’s not the baker caring about you, it’s not the butcher caring about you, it’s them caring about their own families. Together, as he put it, the invisible hand controls the way society works.’
Forwarded from 500 Eco. Adam Smith (@RamonQuesada)
"It’s not through the goodness of the heart, it’s not the baker caring about you, it’s not the butcher caring about you, it’s them caring about their own families. Together, as he put it, the invisible hand controls the way society works". Adam Smith
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