Ashton Keys

Creator of Society Protocol and School of Change.

[Ashton Keys @V1rtuousCycle]

At the end of the blockchain evolution, value isn't going to be transferred through money, or blockchain tokens, or cbdcs. It's going to be transferred through identities. That's what I’m focused on building.

[Ashton Keys @V1rtuousCycle]

There’s two important things I should mention:

1. Society Protocol is an entirely different Web4 state machine model, it produces on-chain reputation simply by existing. (The difference between accounts actions produce a Lifeline of reputation.)

2. Our Web3 Outpost built on Ethereum is an infrastructure project for communities…which also produces a verifiable reputation system. It serves as an outpost for the transition into Web4. It produces verifiable reputation by using a badge system to creating a “walled-garden” (around the blockchain) of identities differentiated by their badges, which any community in our movement can use as a verifiable identity layer and create their own badges.

It currently includes badges and forums, but can expand to integrate governance, a comms platform, and social media all attached to that same Ethereum walled-garden of identities.

Both produce verifiable reputations. Ultimately, Web4 is what we’re building, but the Web3 Outpost is an exciting project in its own right for communities, and will serve an important role in the transition from Web3 into Web4.

[Ashton Keys @V1rtuousCycle]

You think someone intelligent enough to come up with a DEX exploit, and legal enough to get away with it, is going to store child abuse on the same computer?

While the country is coincidentally ran by pedovores?? 🤔🤔🤔

Are you all fucking retarded.
(Notice it’s not a question mark.)

[Ashton Keys @V1rtuousCycle]

You all realize that the pedovores in charge are almost certainly planting fake evidence on innocent people’s computers which they have full control over, right?

And getting you to support them because it looks like a victory for the good guys, while they’re eating the same children, right?

Please use your brains and watch for patterns.

[Ashton Keys @V1rtuousCycle]

@SimonDixonTwitt You benefit by not having to think. 😉

[Ashton Keys @V1rtuousCycle]

God help me at dealing with the fake and ghey confused mess that is modern humans…

They stab each other blindfolded and feed each other poison. Lashing out in pain while stabbing.

[Ashton Keys @V1rtuousCycle]

When we engineer money correctly, we get identities…based off the use of that money.

[Ashton Keys @V1rtuousCycle]

@redpillb0t Only when in deep sleep. Like in literal dreams.

[Ashton Keys @V1rtuousCycle]

@ThrillaRilla369 All I know is Disney owes me money.

[Ashton Keys @V1rtuousCycle]

@SCBuergel The Templars must hate you.

[Ashton Keys @V1rtuousCycle]

@Senpai_Gideon @nunchi @commonwarexyz Society Protocol is unlike anything in Web3. It's to Web3 what Ethereum was to Bitcoin. Totally different.

You can read this, maybe it clicks: https://t.co/Ui3b6IU41r

[Ashton Keys @V1rtuousCycle]

I don't know if this needs explaining, but the populace stands 0% chance against the technocrats without a technological innovation.

The technocrats see and control the entire state of society. You don't. The populace sees nothing, and controls nothing.

[Ashton Keys @V1rtuousCycle]

Looking forward to introducing Society Protocol (@ProtocolSociety) at the first edition of @ETHConf in NYC this June. Come say hi if you're around!

[Ashton Keys @V1rtuousCycle]

A banana republic, if you can keep it.

[Aaron Day @AaronRDay]

Crypto prisoners still fucked. A banana republic, if you can keep it.

[Ashton Keys @V1rtuousCycle]

@iang_fc Funny, I’m thinking about how I currently deserve full Roman citizenship.

&perhaps British too.

[Ashton Keys @V1rtuousCycle]

@LandlordLinks Only Elon Musk can see your likes now.
He knows who EVERYBODY likes.

Peasants don’t need to require this information.

[Ashton Keys @V1rtuousCycle]

@zackvoell They rigged the market makers at that point. It was very obvious.

[Ashton Keys @V1rtuousCycle]

You’re missing the point...It’s not about the socioeconomic standing of its holders…it’s the fact that we can’t distinguish its holder(s) at all, that causes all the problems.

Never in the past, never in the present, never in the future.

These factors can drastically shift values of the network, there’s incentives to create fake decentralization theater to spice them for controlling parties, and very low costs to doing so.

All the miners could be in one house. You wouldn’t have a way to perceive it. It’s the social layer below that matters.

[Ashton Keys @V1rtuousCycle]

I’m not trying to be patronizing…you should really read and not scan it…it covers this exact thing.

What you’re talking about is called a distributed network. Like Napster for example is controlled by many peers. Nostr, Napster, Bitcoin…they’re distributed networks. They all have no central point of failure.

A decentralized network means that power in the network is not centralized, not that the network itself is distributed. Yet, socioeconomic power, in these networks should game theoretically begin centralize over time and also begin centralized, and there’s no way to tell who owns what, or even measure decentralization without Sybil-resistance.

We can’t tell for example, if new transactions are legitimate users or Sybil. We can’t measure anything in the network accurately because of this.

[Ashton Keys @V1rtuousCycle]

You seem like someone who genuinely wants to understand. I suggest you read this article, it will elevate your understanding.

1) No known founder. Key word, "known." Doesn't mean there isn't a founder, nor that there isn't a group the project emanates from, nor that there isn't a cabal of insiders that emanates from that origin. It simply means that the public is ignorant to the identity of the founder. (You're conflating "not known," with "not existing.")
2) Insiders, I can identify a group of Bitcoin insiders myself, the early adopters were all a very small group. The mining pools even smaller. They all receive disproportional rewards in the pyramid today...what do you think they're all doing today?
3) Bitcoin is decentralized. Meh, please read the article attached. Then if you still feel so, come back and state your points.
4) Bitcoin is backed by PoW – energy. Yes, it is, which is a very inefficient coordination method. All of this can be abstracted away into an abstraction of energy that incentivizes humans to do valuable work (human activity energy), rather than burning actual physical energy as a form of valuable signal (which is expensive, and not required).

https://t.co/bY9Viyx79P