2024-05-02: Taught, taught, tort.
(If you work at FF/FFDW 🄽 links will send you to a local, editable page in the Filecoin Foundation Notion. If you are in the Filecoin ecosystem, you may be able to join the #monologue-danny Slack channel where I answer questions, take meeting bookings, talk to myself and the other voices in my head. In the glorious decentralized ocap-enabled future, such data-hoardings will be a thing of the past, but we live for now in a fallen ACL world.)
Three Things I Did
1. Got taught about RetroPGF voting.
A couple of zoom calls today turned into single-person tutorials, which was actually kind of fun. The first was the briefing for voters in the Filecoin Retro Public Goods Funding (RetroPGF)🄽 round. I was the only voter (badgeholder) to turn up, but that was fine because it was recorded and I got to ask lots of dumb questions. The main one I had was around the fact that we have ⨎200K to give out, but applying projects couldn’t specify how much they were looking for. I know from sad experience that too much money can break a voluntary project, so how do we signal how much we want to give a project? The answer is complex, but it’s roughly connected to how many votes you give each project. Recording, slides.
2. Got taught about Authenticated Attributes
Then the same thing happened later, when a zoom call turned into a personal tuition session where I got to learn about Authenticated Attributes🄽, a mini-project that Kate Sills🄽 and colleagues are working on at Starling Lab🄽. Benedict Lau🄽 ran me through the idea: basically rather than signing and attesting an artifact and its metadata, you sign each attribute of the metadata and the CID🄽 of the artifac, separately, and then distribute feeds of those values. This means you can redact attributes when you publish the artifact, but keep them around for later. It’s cleverer and more complex than that of course, but that’s enough to get me thinking.
3. Put out an STFIL Updates and FAQ page
Megan Klimen🄽 pointed me to this very well done miniblog by Gemini🄽, for those who lost access to tokens that were leased through Gemini Earn. I’ve started doing the same for STFIL🄽 while we continue to collect and provide legal info on that part of the ecosystem. Yeah, that’s the “tort” pun in the title. What can I say?
TIL
Links Du Jour
- Capital and enclosure in software commons: Linux & Ethereum. Who or what encloses software commons, and how successful are they?
- Blockchain Governance in the Wild, by Kevin Werbach🄽