ShuttleWorth Foundation
Proposal Roadmap
Phases of Development
- Phase 1: Long Term Investments (2015)
- Infrastructure
- Low-Level Development
- Phase 2: Capitalize on Dividends (2016)
- Robust Legacy Interoperability
- Consumer-Friendly Applications
- Anonymity Enhancements
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Phase 3: Worldwide Adoption (2017)
- Default Inclusion with Tor
- OS-Level Adoption
- Self-Sustaining Funding
Phase One
Long-Term Investments
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Capacity Building legal, funding, infrastructure, and more.
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Coalition Building 501(c)6 industry working group.
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Developer UX docs, client libs, and refactoring.
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Legacy Infrastructure building ubiquitous access to .bit sites.
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Middleware improve dev UX, advanced DNS.
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Browser Addon zero-config, zero-wait Firefox add-on
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Core Development match Bitcoin and add functionality.
Capacity Building
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Legal
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Legal entity to receive funds (SFC?).
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Formalize existing governance structure.
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Retain legal counsel.
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Funding: grants for phase two.
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Infrastructure
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Namecoin Enhancement Proposals
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etc.
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IETF/ICANN engagment.
Coalition Building
- Potential 501(c)4 or 501(c)6 industry group.
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Engage with other cryptos to create additional decentralized TLDs.
- BitShares
- Ethereum
- CounterParty?
- Shared infrastructure costs.
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Engage with other cryptos to create additional decentralized TLDs.
- Create forum for related business.
- Registrars
- Exchanges
Developer User Experience
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Documentation
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Unify website
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Client libraries in 5+ languages.
- Testnet-in-a-box
Legacy Infrastructure
- Web Interop
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Speech.is vs traditional .bit suffix
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Legal analysis.
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Availability of â.bit.xyzâ domain.
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.bit.us is vulnerable to domain name seizure
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.bit.ch, bit.se ... insulated from seizures
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Blacklist legislation like SOPA, PIPA, and TPP?
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Backend infrastructure is the same for each solution
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Speech.is vs traditional .bit suffix
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NSL "Proof" backend
- Hidden resolvers on Tor.
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Threshold DNSSEC encryption.
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â key signers will be anonymous admins operating on Tor.
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Warrant canaries.
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Browser Add-On
Finished by end of Phase One!
- Package Lightclient.
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Finish Tor-related functionality.
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Add advanced name resolution features.
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Check for proxy leaks.
- Compatible with Tor proxy.
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- Fix UI.
- Add test coverage.
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OS-level integration (XUL Runner).
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All browsers.
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Proxy detection.
- GUI installer.
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Middleware (NMControl)
- Possible rewrite.
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Port Unbound DNS server.
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Resolve local queries.
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Zone exporting.
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Add unit test coverage.
Core Development
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Reimplement on Bitcoin mainline and maintain parity.
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Simulate and implement floating price proposal
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Dynamic domain name pricing.
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Different prices for different namespaces.
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Simulate and implement changes to difficulty algorithm.
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Predictable renewals times.
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Clean up repos.
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Initialize continuous integration services.
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Reproducible builds.
Phase Two
Capitalize on Dividends
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Robust Web Interop universal access to .bit.
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Additional Decentralized TLDs no single-point-of-failure.
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Fundraising transition to crowdfunding.
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Tor Integration low-level Tor Browser Bundle integration.
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Anonymity native anonymity for network and currency.
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Core Development Bitcoin sidechain, other enhancements
Web Interop
- Increase hidden resolvers from 2 to 5.
- Push for .bit resolution at universities, OpenDNS, etc.
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[Speech.is: remove centralized name resolution.]
3+ Decentralized TLDs
- Chance to fix some issues:
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Reserve some names
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Top 1,000 (mitigate IP concerns)
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Wikileaks, other important sites.
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Enhance overall security with plurality of designs
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Smaller download size.
- Different POW.
- Different codebase.
- etc.
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Fundraising: Self-Sustaining
- Switch to crowdfunding for core project.
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Keep developers in academia!
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PhD programs.
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Postdocs or professorship.
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Team up with Tor.
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Independent development and funding from:
- Registrars
- Exchanges
- TLD Coaltion
Tor Integration
- Firefox needs a pluggable authentication system.
- Currently using Marlinspike's Convergence.
- Hackish: proxy that replaces encryption.
- DANE?
- Less of a hack...
- Compatible across browsers (if they support it).
- Currently using Marlinspike's Convergence.
- Code audit.
Full Anonymity
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Zerocash
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Currency level anonymity.
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Privacy for domain owners.
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Legal/political issues....
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- Lightclient anonymity
- Regular DNS queries are partly anonymous.
- What level?
- Network Coding (requires research)?
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Tor vs I2P?
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Work with Bitcoin Foundation!
Core Development
- Anonymity
- Bitcoin side chain.
- Buy Namecoins using Bitcoins.
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Phase Three
Worldwide Adoption
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Default Inclusion in Tor!
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Zerocash advanced anti-money laundering controls.
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P2P Exchange dynamic pricing.
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OS Integration Unix, etc.
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PKI Use replace web cert authorities, etc.
Namecoin Pitch
By Zach Lym
Namecoin Pitch
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