somnicule comments on Will Darkcoin Have Thiel's Last Mover Advantage - Less Wrong

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Comment author: somnicule 24 May 2014 05:09:33AM 4 points [-]

The cryptocurrency I'm most excited about is ethereum, and though it is going to have a premine, development is being done in a very open fashion. It allows users to develop smart contracts that execute whenever they contract's address receives a transaction. I've already written a binary LMSR prediction market contract which could run on ethereum.

Comment author: gwern 02 July 2014 04:45:39PM 1 point [-]

I've already written a binary LMSR prediction market contract which could run on ethereum.

Looks like it uses centralized judges, skimming the code. Wouldn't Truthcoin be better to work on?

Comment author: somnicule 02 July 2014 11:19:46PM *  0 points [-]

Yeah, lately I've been trying to implement TruthCoin's SVD voting algorithm in Ethereum. Had a few hiccups so I'm putting it on the back burner for now.

But, unless I did something to the code I've forgotten, the judge can be an arbitrary contract here. A panel of judges, a single judge, a simple proof-of-stake voting system, or a TruthCoin-like system, etc.

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 02 July 2014 03:59:05AM 1 point [-]

Is your prediction market code open source? If so, where can we find it?

Comment author: somnicule 02 July 2014 04:36:43AM 1 point [-]

Here, but it's not in working order right at the moment.