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06/24/2023
Grassroots Social Networking: Serverless, Permissionless Protocols for Twitter/LinkedIn/WhatsApp
Offering a viable alternative architecture to centrally-controlled globa...
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05/05/2023
Flash: An Asynchronous Payment System with Good-Case Linear Communication Complexity
While the original purpose of blockchains was to realize a payment syste...
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01/11/2023
Grassroots Distributed Systems: Concept, Examples, Implementation and Applications
A distributed system is 'grassroots' if it can have autonomous, independ...
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05/18/2022
Cordial Miners: Blocklace-Based Ordering Consensus Protocols for Every Eventuality
Cordial Miners are a family of efficient Byzantine Atomic Broadcast prot...
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03/02/2022
Foundations for Grassroots Democratic Metaverse
While the physical lives of many of us are in democracies (one person, o...
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02/11/2022
Sovereign Cryptocurrencies for People, Corporations, Banks and Communities: Foundations for Grassroots Cryptoeconomy
The ecosystem of cryptocurrencies benefits the few and exacerbates econo...
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01/18/2022
Proportional Ranking in Primary Elections: A Case Study
Many democratic political parties hold primary elections, which nicely r...
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12/27/2021
Multiagent Transition Systems with Faults: Protocol-Stack Mathematics for Distributed Computing
Presently, the practice of distributed computing is such that problems e...
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03/05/2021
Democratic Forking: Choosing Sides with Social Choice
Any community in which membership is optional may eventually break apart...
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11/05/2020
How to Amend a Constitution? Model, Axioms, and Supermajority Rules
A self-governed community or society must have rules by which group deci...
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09/21/2020
Electing the Executive Branch
The executive branch, or government, is typically not elected directly b...
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06/01/2020
Fault-Tolerant Distributed-Ledger Implementation of Digital Social Contracts
A companion paper defined the notion of digital social contracts, presen...
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05/29/2020
Egalitarian and Just Digital Currency Networks
Cryptocurrencies are a digital medium of exchange with decentralized con...
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05/13/2020
Digital Social Contracts: A Foundation for an Egalitarian and Just Digital Society
Almost two centuries ago Pierre-Joseph Proudhon proposed social contract...
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01/22/2020
Egalitarian Deliberative Decision Making
We study a scenario in which an agent population wishes to identify a ma...
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01/15/2020
Sybil-Resilient Social Choice with Partial Participation
Voting rules may fail to implement the will of the society when only som...
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04/21/2019
Genuine Global Identifiers and their Mutual Sureties
We introduce the fundamental notion of a genuine global identifier, name...
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04/21/2019
Foundation for Genuine Global Identities
About 1Bn people around the globe are born and live without identity doc...
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07/29/2018
Sybil-Resilient Reality-Aware Social Choice
Sybil attacks, in which fake or duplicate identities (sybils) infiltrate...
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07/29/2018
Sybil-Resilient Social Choice
We consider an electorate composed of both genuine and fake voters, aka ...
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07/29/2018
Reality-aware Sybil-Resilient Voting
We consider an electorate composed of both honest and fake voters, aka s...
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06/16/2018
Integrating Deliberation and Voting in Participatory Drafting of Legislation
Deliberation and voting are considered antithetic: In deliberation, the ...
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04/05/2018
Global Cryptodemocracy is Possible and Desirable
A contribution to a Globalcit debate entitled: Cloud Communities: The Da...
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10/27/2017
Incorporating Reality into Social Choice
When voting on a proposal one in fact chooses between two alternatives: ...
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10/08/2017
Foundations of Internet-enabled Democracy
The Internet revolution of democracy, which will transform earthly repre...
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09/18/2017
A Condorcet-Consistent Democratic Budgeting Algorithm
The budget is the key means for effecting policy in democracies, yet its...
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09/18/2017