What is Hivemind?
Hivemind is a Peer-to-Peer Oracle Protocol which absorbs accurate data into a blockchain so that Bitcoin-users can speculate in on-chain Prediction Markets. Such markets can revolutionize the emergence and diffusion of knowledge in society, by “making Cheap Talk expensive”.
Centralized oracles/pm-marketplaces will probably struggle to remain secure at scale (see Appendix 1).
What?
Click the one which describes you:
- I’ve never heard of Bitcoin before and have no idea what’s going on.
- I’m familiar with Bitcoin 2.0 projects.
WARNING: The “Hivemind ICO”
Please disregard any message you may read about a “Hivemind ICO”. These messages are all fabrications. These are written by fraudsters. Hivemind is in R&D stage, and this notice will be removed when that changes.
Popular Talks
Anarchapulco – Feb 2019
This 20 minute talk covers the most important material.
See the slides and transcript here.
TABconf – Jan 2018
A 45 minute talk on the “why” of this project (slides here):
Endorsements
“Hivemind may be the most important invention since Bitcoin itself.”
- Roger Ver (Jun 2015), Bitcoin evangelist and seed investor (Blockchain.info, The Bitcoin Foundation, Ripple, BitPay, ShapeShift, Purse.io)
“I’d give it a low chance of success, but at least it’s clever crazy rather than stupid crazy. :)”
- Peter Todd (Oct 2015), Bitcoin core developer, notable skeptic (Coinkite “Chief Naysayer”), inventor of Treechains
“Hivemind is a real project with interesting use cases. It’s great to see them using sidechains - anyone with Bitcoin can participate in their markets.”
- Dr. Adam Back (Dec 2015), Notable Cypherpunk, inventor of Hashcash Proof-of-Work, Blockstream Co-Founder and President
“I’m very optimistic about the feasibility of this project.”
- Andrew Poelstra (May 2015), author of A Treatise on Altcoins, On Stake and Consensus, co-author of the Sidechains Whitepaper
Papers
Technicals
The PM Sequence
- Why do this?
- The Power of Prediction Markets
- Applications and Use-Cases
- Prediction Market Myths
- Manipulation of Prediction Markets
- Non-Usefulness of Prediction Markets for Assassination and Crime
Highlighted Applications
- The Sumner-Hanson Quartet (xlsx, pdf) – With a minimal effort and start-up capital, this would allow regular citizens to very precisely measure, prove/broadcast, profit-from, and repair mistakes made by a central bank. As a side effect it allows sound money and stable-valued money to peacefully co-exist.
- Rent in San Francisco – The concept of “Futarchy”, explained via one very short blog post.
Presentations
- What is Hivemind?
- Outcome Resolution
- Ending the Age of Bullshit
- My (mostly related) talk at the Montreal Scalability Conference
Download
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Others
Be sure to check the blog!
And, as always, the reference material of the sidebar: the conversations / interviews, the FAQ.
The forums have not been popular, since I switched my focus to sidechain-enabler Drivechain.
Contact
Email: bitcoin.hivemind /at/gmail/ (PGP: A1FDEFA4), cryptaxe /at/gmail/ (PGP: EA910EC9)
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