When life gives you lemons to the tune of nearly $160 million, it's not so easy to make lemonade.But that's just what ethereum startup Parity Technologies is seeking to do after a rough 2017, a year in which it suffered one of the most high-profile breaches in the history of blockchain. Far from a sinister hack, though, it's had to face that its fortunes effectively changed when a novice developer "accidentally" froze the funds so no one could access them.So, I tell my bot to takes a few hundred coins to the escrow router and "Wait forever...". That might be a fun thing to do in the smart layer, but escrow routers don't do that, they barf it back to the owner.
The escrow router is like a poker game, the players make bets with full consensus at each step, then the game has a guaranteed end where the consensus is deleted and restarted for another game.
Ethereum is a general definition of means and methods for contracts, the applications have to use a restricted set. The escrow routed use a very restricted set, finite protocols with guaranteed resolution back to the signatories. Escrow routers do not need their own money, if they are well built, they can create a bearer version of any personal contract, enforceable by shoe leather. Then route that contract under finite closure.
Queuing is pricing, and escrow routers don't price, pricing being deferred to pits and ledgers. The escrow router can exchange bearer assets, internally, under escrow instruction. Follow these rules and the monetary network layer should fall out naturally.
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