MAmatthewsinclair·Jan 11, 2022Submission
Witless is a token system unlike anything else on the market today
2 points · Open discussionwilliam-fields
witless
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william-fields / witless
witless
A token system based on proof of transport
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What it is
A token system based on proof of transport
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Observed mentions: 2021-12-22 00:13:42 UTC to 2022-01-11 09:39:56 UTC.
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| Dec 22 | 2021-12-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-12-23 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Dec 23 | 2021-12-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-12-24 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Dec 24 | 2021-12-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-12-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 25 | 2021-12-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-12-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 26 | 2021-12-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-12-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 27 | 2021-12-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-12-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 28 | 2021-12-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-12-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 29 | 2021-12-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-12-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 30 | 2021-12-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-12-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 31 | 2021-12-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 1 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2 | 2022-01-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 3 | 2022-01-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 4 | 2022-01-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 5 | 2022-01-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 6 | 2022-01-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 7 | 2022-01-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 8 | 2022-01-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 9 | 2022-01-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 10 | 2022-01-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Jan 11 | 2022-01-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesI like where the developer leaked the private key of the signing authority:
https://github.com/william-fields/witless/commit/dc4a429b721...
The problems with this 'witless' proposal is that we have no way of auditing the supply, and politicians will betray the trust of the users by debasing it. Also, we have no trust anchor with the 'official witless key', which presumably should be considered compromised in the above commit.
It also seems to depend on the file hosting services of a large software company for distribution of its public keys.
The problem with these straw man arguments is they often miss the entire point of the technology, and folks read them and walk away without understand exactly the problems the parodied technology solves.
This does have some humorous points, but generally leaves the reader with a confused and incorrect
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view of how both the USD and cryptocurrencies work.
I got you fam: https://github.com/william-fields/witless#ntf-support
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