Building a Translucent Mobile Crypto Currency with Couchbase Lite JSON
summary
Proposes a translucent mobile cryptocurrency called Document Coin that abandons a global blockchain in favor of a web of trust style model: coins are JSON documents stored with Couchbase Lite JSON, signed with JOSE/JWS and chained by cryptographic signatures, with a public “filtered” photo and an encrypted bearer photo. Coins transfer by re-signing and re-encrypting the bearer side; UI mockups show tactile coin piles but no production system exists yet — only prototypes and design notes.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:32Philosophy
- 3:04legibility
- 3:38value
- 6:13different values
- 7:24Portland
- 8:33The Progressive Dream
- 10:01Mathematical Solution
- 11:09Polite Fiction
- 11:53Gift Economy
- 13:16subjective cryptocurrency
- 14:14Bitcoin
- 15:53Trust Data Structures
- 16:28Public Key Cryptography
- 18:31Key Signing Parties
- 20:02Coins
- 20:21Mockups
- 27:56Reading list
- 29:45Questions
- 34:12Partial disclosure
- 41:18Conclusion
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