Project Reiver: A Conceptual Proposal
Rho-Calculus, Rholang & Tulang Augmented with Arweave & Innovation Bank Principles
Introduction
The automated 12 hour liquidity window for engineers, the cyber-space-time Harrison’s Clock
Blockchains have a problem with processing large volumes of data because of how they work, Arweave ‘Blockweave’ architecture doesn’t have that problem.
Current tropes of common understanding: celebrities, politicians, political ideas no longer work to form consensus, they create deeper echo chambers of narcissism and self-aggrandizement. Our Mike Gill evidence vault starts to demonstrate that when tested in the field against the Q Post LARPers and fake Indians.
This represents the ‘marketplace of ideas’ fallacy of neo-liberal doctrine where the ‘conservative right’ claim to be in favor of family values and tradition, but don’t even want to talk about where the fentanyl comes from because to do so puts too much strain of liability on the financial system that they are really acting on behalf of. There’s no risk of being sued for talking about Yetis or 10ft mall aliens aliens, but there is a risk for talking about real world material risks that hurt the net worth of people with lots of money.
This phenomenon is currently called ‘Pay-triotism’ and the same principles could equally be applied to what the political right typically call ‘The Cathedral’ or ‘Woke’ and are all explained by the Romeo-Juliet framework.
It’s all an eavesdropping Sybil attack to limit the liability of wealth and power against those who are essentially engineers: those working to communicate, explain and mitigate situation-ally subtle and complex material risks.
The political argument of the 21st century, since Bill Clinton and Tony Blair re-modeled the political left away from Marxist principles towards neo-liberal ones, never has been about increasing the breadth of economic growth by either broadly free market or political means, it has been about the center of financial power and who wields it for whom. The ‘Syngenegraph’ solution to the Romeo-Juliet Framework cuts right thought this to the heart of the issue: mass ownership of the means of production is eminently achievable with existing technology. The problem is what Mark Fisher termed ‘Capitalist Realism’ in that nobody has the desire to actually solve the problem because capitalism is superb mind control technology. Capital shapes desire for itself, has its own will, which works against both individual and proto-capitalistic concerns, which Nick Land also describes, the rest is just lying and moaning, essentially.
Modern examples of this bourgeois tendency, and especially the American one as described by Mike Gill, to destroy the social capital and the social fabric for its own benefit include but are not limited to:
The Pandora Papers money laundering network;
The reframing of Marxist critiques of the stagflationary tendencies of Power Capital as Vampire Castle identity politics and weird sex stuff from Tumblr, both by capitalist, liberal interests.
The substance abuse and mental health crises and the privatization of mental health itself;
the 2008 Banker Bailouts;
The Military Industrial Complex now calling for conscription (making cannon fodders of the ‘customers’ in the ‘economy’) instead of solving the problem (which it is both unwilling and incompetent with respect to with respect to both the ‘customers’ and the ‘economy’ because ‘the economy’ doesn’t exist, there is no efficient market for the ‘customers’. The ‘market’ exists for the wealthy to sell ever more lemons and limes, and the ‘security’ is just culling the herd before they revolt, because that’s most profitable and in the ‘marketplace of ideas’ the market always knows more, so no one can hear you scream. In fact, screaming would just be hubris according to the doctrine of it, that’s how utterly insane it is.).
All finance can or ever will be is a system of accounting and state management for measuring the value of what’s in the real world into existence. It is a system of transactional mediation that prices material facts and variance, quantity and quality. Bitcoin, by solving the handshake problem in a way that doesn’t require any central authority, automated away a crucial function of the financial industry.
Dan Robles’ radical ‘Eng-Tech’ (Technology for Engineers) focus, that finance and insurance needs engineers and engineering more than they need them, and that blockchain, machine learning, artificial intelligence and similar technologies can automate finance and insurance functions away for the benefit of engineers, the true creative professionals who create every factory, road, bridge, tunnel, skyscraper and so forth, rather than the other way around, is what sets Dan’s concept apart from the current industry ‘Fin-Tech’ (Technology for Financiers) focus.
The Current Thing in The Current Year
In 2024, however, the leaderless block creation consensus mechanism that Bitcoin introduced isn’t limited to Bitcoin, Arweave and Rho-Calculus based blockchains achieve the same consensus according to the same principles with enormous orders of magnitude performance increases (> 10^50), in addition to supporting much more flexibility, and complexity from the middle to the edge.
Arweave is limited to lazy evaluation smart contracts at relatively low frequency. It’s basically a giant public hard drive that people read from and write to
Rho Calculus blockchains can perform high frequency computation reliably and scale concurrently.
The two technologies compliment each other well
Arweave Immutable Data Storage Blockweave:
an immutable, extremely high capacity and low cost time-stamped data storage solution, a big public hard drive that can be lazily evaluated forward in time.
This works very well as a high latency base layer.
Rho-calculus blockchains:
correct by construction, concurrently scale-able, high frequency.
These work well as a low latency middle-ware layer.
Arweave: Passive Protection Layer
Arweave is a big public hard drive that instantiates any ground state for inspection or lazy evaluation for $10 per GB
Arweave token has inherent and intrinsic value, solving a strong criticism that Dan Robles has always had about blockchain technology in general: the cost of Arweave token represents the price of immutable and available storage space-time and the willingness of nodes to provide that service to those seeking it.
It provides an immutable ground state, a measure of real estate from which the value of data itself can be integrated and or derived.
Any on chain or off chain data can reliably establish this ground state, which thanks to ‘Bundlers’ such are Ardrive Turbo or Irys is fully scale-able to achieve Arweave’s full capacity of 2^256 (1.15 x 10^77) bytes per transaction. Each block handles 1000 transactions and blocks are created every two minutes. That’s 10^76 bytes per second. In terms of Bitcoin where the average transaction size is around 275 bytes, that’s 3.5*10^73 transactions per second as a theoretical ceiling, versus BSV Blockchain’s current boasting of 10^6 transactions per second. Arweave is therefore 35, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 times more effective than BSV Blockchain in terms of uploading raw data, which puts many arguments to bed already.
Arweave processes many orders of magnitude higher than Bitcoin with no need for the constraints of the single thread of computation, the expense of ASICs and the circa 30 GW of electricity it currently consumes
This represents a extraordinary order of magnitude performance improvement relative to Bitcoin and other blockchain solutions used to demonstrate the value of The Ingenesist Project and the Innovation Bank.
Layer 2 on Arweave only exists to bundle transactions, all data exists in the blockweave, in the centre of the network, this makes it different from other Layer 1 and 2 solutions in that the Layer 2 bundler’s exist only transiently on a per transaction basis, not permanently as it is with Bitcoin-based solutions, for example.
Bitcoin miners are essentially only fighting over the state in between block creation and block reward release (such that their blocks don’t get orphaned) which is a window of 100 blocks at any one time. Transactions from years ago with tens or hundreds of thousands of confirmations don’t need to be repeatedly confirmed, this is a waste of resources when it only costs circa $6000 to store the entire state of the Bitcoin ledger (roughly 550 GB at the time of writing) immutably on Arweave.
According to the theory of best practices, each Bitcoin sat should be priced according to its UTXO history and this should be a crucial insurance and security function of exchanges, but this never happens in practice, exchanges just collapse and billionaires just mysteriously die when it blows up.
Proof of Work and Proof of Stake chains are continually validating all transactions in the whole chain of blocks, which is the wrong measure of consensus anyway according to innovation bank principles, and this is not an efficient use of resources, when all that really matters in terms of spending is the 100 or so blocks between block reward and release of funds.
The entirety of Wikipedia (150 GB), vis a vis Dan Robles’ Curiosumé concept, can be uploaded to Arweave for $1500, the state of the BTC network (around 550 GB) for circa $6000, the state of the Ethereum chain (around 1 TB) for circa $10 000.
This now also includes Git repos, as suggested in the Romeo-Juliet framework, with Protocol Land, an Arweave permaweb implementation of Github, with all the functionality of Git such as diffing, forking, approvals, with digital signatures.
According to the Innovation Bank, value is measured into existence via wisdom gleaned from participants’ contribution on the ledger, it’s a human-centered approach.
Right now the middle-ware between the user or builder and Arweave isn’t very blockchain-like, Bundlers automate the order fulfillment at scale, but the cost accounting at scale is still finicky. Services such as AR.IO, a permanent domain system, are creating ad-hoc blockchain-like consensus and incentive solutions as they go.
The more the network of users grows and the more the use cases grow, the more the middle-ware layer will grow and the greater the complexity of cost accounting in the middle will grow. Rho-Calculus blockchains are perfect for the purpose of fast evaluation and cost accounting. They are well suited to lazily evaluate, 0 conf transact and cost account on a per transaction basis with unprecedented efficiency and scale between the user, the Bundlers and other protocol and service providers, their consensus and communication protocols, and the Arweave immutable data lake itself.
Rho-Calculus Blockchain: Active Protection Layer
Arweave is the most cost effective immutable state management solution on a per GB basis, however the Middleware layers when bridging the divide between user experience and chain interaction are where a Rho-Calculus based blockchain could add a lot of value.
The technology was invented by Greg Lucius Meredith who also invented Microsoft Biztalk Server middle-ware for solving precisely the same problem for global enterprise communication and accounting.
RChain has since forked into four and a half entities:
A Proof of Staje Rholang Blockchain with a focus on B2B, B2C and C2C smart contract and process orchestration solutions
A Proof of Stake Rholang Blockchain with DAO governance smart contracts
Developing a fork of the Rholang programming language named ‘Tuplespace Operation Language’ or Tulang, which promises to offer significant performance advantages scheduled for late 2024
Greg Meredith’s personal project with Ben Goertzel creating concurrency and improved explainability in large AI models
Rholang compiles to Agoric’s own language Jessie, a subset of Javascript, and Dan Connolly, formerly of W3C consortium, bridges the divide. A lot of Agoric’s most cutting edge work is founded in the principles of Rholang.
High integrity 0 conf transactions because of correct by construction smart contracts and lazy evaluation between the UI and Arweave itself, also the possibility to bake in insurance algorithms and contract nullification in the case of mistakes and foul play.
Multisignature voting, DAOs, object capability security, unmatched support for flexible governance and security patterns.
High frequency trading and cost accounting between the user and Arweave
Proof of Stake and Proof of Work type blockchains have never been particularly well suited to managing the cost of data stored in blocks, even Bitcoin SV’s BCAT solution was and is unreliable for uploads >25MB when the whole architecture was reorganized for largely that exact reason.
The Rho-calculus blockchain layer can act as the finance and insurance management layer, the facilitation layer, between the engineer and the immutable data lake, accounting for the engineers’ value both for themselves and for everyone.
Arweave now allows us to settle and archive all chain data for a $10 GB floor price and ‘state trimming’ can be viewed more as a form of ‘liquidation’ of data. Any data can be liquidated into the Arweave data lake at any time for $10 per GB for any reason.
Rho Calculus blockchain technology retains an important feature of Bitcoin, leaderless block creation, without needing to resort of costly proof of work consensus. It also scales concurrently, capacity increases with scale, messaging is a first class citizen, so it’s very inter-operable, it is Turing complete from its roots in functional programming such as Haskell, and its code executes in production in a highly predictable way. Middle-ware type functionality is exactly what Rho-Calculus blockchains excel at.
Promises and Cost Accounting
I uploaded these files and went over my allotted Akord budget, and because my budget went into negative territory and their front end design doesn’t even test to catch that error, let alone the middle-ware, the UI for my user storage account became this: literally nothing, not even an error message.
After I informed support, my account was reset to zero. I tried to explain the fundamental problem to support, but they didn’t seem to understand, hopefully this post helps.
Engineering Trust at Scale
If we re-frame blockchains in terms of their purpose, in the same way that corporations were created for a purpose and not in perpetuity, a lot of that current purpose is redundant.
What’s being argued over by the miners is mostly for their block reward not be be orphaned/uncled in the fund release/liquidity window, which for Bitcoin is 100 blocks or roughly 13 hours and 20 minutes give or take a narrow standard deviation, based upon difficulty and hash rate.
After the 100 block ‘cooling off period’ it is at least unknown to me for any funds to be frozen for any reason
Never mind transactions with over 1000 confirmations already, or transactions from 2016 with half a million confirmations. At some level all Bitcoin and similar technologies are doing is archiving, block trimming, like Ethereum already does, is an empirical example of this, but even when blockchains trim they typically aren’t archiving the trim on Arweave which leads to deep suspicion.
The way to solve this is not unilateral coin confiscation as Craig Wright suggests, but to use Blockweave archival services like Arweave for what they’re for, in terms of the Innovation Bank, and use Blockchains for what they’re for. To separate concerns according to engineering best practices.
If any Satoshis have risk associated with them, they can be flagged according to their transaction history, as described previously, insurance should be purchased, or they trade at a commensurate discount up to and including ZERO.
According to engineering best practice, blockchains have value in so much as data only changes forward in time and risk is measured as it does, other than that they have no intrinsic value. Arweave Blockweave has intrinsic value in terms of immutable and timestamped cyber-space-time at $10 GB.
Exiting the Vampire Castle
Blockchains should have a beginning, a middle and a end according to outcomes and a project plan. Old ideas from the olden days like central banks, limited liability and corporate person-hood only even make sense in terms of birth and death, in terms of existing for a purpose greater than themselves. People don’t exist to launder Pandora Papers money held by shell LLCs, owned by grifters and criminals using systems designed to promote commerce for precisely the opposite reason. All this stuff exists to make life better and easier for people. Not learning the lessons of the banker bailouts and the legacy of Boomers, the death cult generation, is what’s killing this industry and killing the rubes being sucked into the pyramid schemes that have no real value.
Arweave establishes a permanent ground state, which all nodes can agree upon any time and pay a relatively nominal fee to park the history and draw a line under it i.e. liquidate.
PoW and PoS blockchains don’t have to keep validating the same thing a bazillion times
Good example is the Bitcoin forks of Bitcoin Cash in November 2017 and Bitcoin SV in November 2018, all three forks are still validating transactions from 2010. Arweave with Bundlers wasn’t production ready at the time of any of these decisions.
Ethereum is currently being accused of erasing its transaction history with block trimming, a good compromise is parking the state on Arweave, but this requires mature discussions about debt and liability pertaining to such things, according to Innovation Bank principles, which most industry participants aren’t ready for because they’ve never done anything in real life like real engineers have. They take a ‘Fintech’ response which is the paper shredder response, not the mutual and self-responsibility response. ‘Eng-tech’ is the best way to think about this technology: serving user/builders with products that make them better people, just like Apple used to do.
Re-framing debt jubilees and Great Resets in terms of just drawing a line somewhere, that history is history.
In terms of the Innovation Bank and ALARP principles there is a limit of risk and what can be changed by human or machine action and what cannot.
Archiving is also a recognition of what is history and what cannot be changed, same as security clearance, permissions, access and so forth. The more sensitive and material the information pertaining to ongoing action, the longer it is kept secret from the public, for example. Declassification is a form of debt clearance in terms of belief in liability by the government.
Likewise debt itself, with blockchain technology where data cannot be changed backward in time, can be offset against new material information pertaining to material risks. We can only ever change what we’re collectively competent enough to change anyway.
Blockchain and Proof of Whatever
In terms of the Innovation Bank what needs to be proven is ‘Proof of Insure-ability’ within a defined variance, a defined quality and a defined quantity always transparently open to challenge.
The variance can be big or small, what matters is being able to define the quality and quantity of an asset, such than everyone has sufficient information in the economy to strive towards higher quality and higher quantity, which is the same as the current ‘profit motive’ but with the factors of production changed from ‘better and worse’ or ‘richer and poorer’ to ‘student and teacher’, if ‘knowledge is our greatest asset’ and ‘data is the new oil’, the new commodity justifying the value of the money, then knowledge deficits are neither good nor bad, they themselves can create a market for knowledge which overcomes lemon, lime and security problems.
Without ‘security’ there can be no stock market nor debt market anyway, because there’s no force behind the demand to enforce any obligation.
“O fast and fast they downwards sped
The moss and briers among,
And in the midst the troopers led
A shackled knight along.”
Until next time, TTFN.
Bookmarked & Reading with Rapt Attention! Well done on the Analysis, Good Sir!