How blockchain and IPv6 will affect future online communities

There is a lot of knowledge floating around on the internet, but it is not always easy to find, especially in the blockchain area. Even with Google, many gems are hidden in Twitter threads, LinkedIn posts or YouTube videos. As a result, many online communities share news faster than people can confirm or even find, leading to many misunderstandings.

In early July 2022, user Ken Shishido transcribed a relevant clip about IPv6 and blockchain from an interview with Latif Ladid, founder and president of IPv6 Forum. The transcript provides some insight into changes that affect everyone except the mainstream misses:

I started the ipv6 forum back in 1999 when the ipv6 task force at the ITF (Internet Task Force) had released the draft IPv6 RFC (Request for Comments) 2460.

It was back in December 1998, and at that time that group had to be disbanded because the work was finished. So the best way to continue the work is to start the IPv6 forum to spread and promote IPv6 distributions around the world.

We knew that the address area back in 1992 was going to be emptied quickly because the Internet was opened in 1991 by Al Gore. He initially opened the NFS network which became the first internet. And at that time we already knew that the ipv4 address space was used up by 40.

So the call for a new protocol was made by the ITF with an RFC. Then there have been many suggestions such as IPv6, IPv7 IPv8 and IPv9. And after five years of work, IPv6 was chosen and then we started promoting the IPA part.

The first killer application was initially 3g. After 10 years, the ipv4 address area was emptied back in 2011. In fact, on February 2, 2011 and since then, we have run out of central address space.

But the registers and ISPs still have some, so they can still use it until now, but in the meantime we have now distributed IPv6 all over the world. About 45 percent of the world use it without knowing it. And that is the purpose of it.

We have the big organizations and the big Internet providers, and also some governments are now pushing for an IPv6 only by 2025, primarily US authorities or US government networks. They want to achieve something like 80 IPv6 just by 2025.

After the first inflection point with 3g 4g 5g, blockchain is the second largest. Basically, blockchain is designed for IPv6, even though people did not know it from the beginning.

It is an end-to-end solution. There are not many end-to-end solutions on this planet. So some will think you know it’s a peer-to-peer application. This is outside the peer-to-peer application.

So by using the address space as the source and destination, you have the best model of internet. This is how the Internet started as an end-to-end model. And we have basically made the telecom world a telecom network using NAT (Network Address Translation) which interferes with the end-to-end model.

IPv6 has restored it exactly for an application like blockchain because it needs the end-to-end model so you can do a better job than just as an application you can do it using the end-to-end model.

In this case, by using the IPv6 address on both sides, you can route between the two, and you do not need anyone in between to tell you what you are doing.

Blockchain will add a basic approach to how the internet should work, also by creating small amounts of very small amounts that can accumulate for many people who make transactions over the Internet.

The payment option was not included on the Internet in the beginning. And I think blockchain with BSV in a way restores what did not happen on the Internet in the beginning.

But we will have a lot of work to do to educate and get best practices and send the right messages to governments, regulators, ISPs and other industries.

Because blockchain is not a single solution, so you have so many competing solutions today, and everyone claims victory and so on.

There is a bit of chaos in this area and we would like to support only the one who will be the winner with IPv6. And I think BSV Blockchain is a good one.

The BSV Association is very important you know to get the education out there. We need to explain what is BSV and what is blockchain along our common concepts because as I mentioned earlier, there is a lot of education because the confusion has already occurred.

So we have to disconnect the BSV Blockchain from all the cryptocurrencies and so on and so forth. We do not want to support a kind of royal casino for the whole planet. That is not the purpose of this work. We want to get everyone involved.

Changes that happen without even knowing it

The reason for sharing the above is because a large majority of digital currency, Web3s, NFTs and even blockchain users are barely aware of the movements being made in the background. Especially when it comes to infrastructure upgrades of the internet itself, but that does not stop users from taking advantage of all the benefits.

For the most part, average users do not need it. However, if you are one builds In this room, it can be important to understand what is going on to have confidence in the basic levels you are building. Since this affects the communities you serve.

For “community builders”, this means being aware of the platforms you choose to use if you want to be “Web3 native”. Despite the hype and popularity of chains like Ethereum and Solana, they may not exist if IPv6 technology is paired with a blockchain like BSV.

In the previous transcript, there is a line that reveals the realities of implementing or upgrading digital infrastructure, “About 45 percent of the world use it [IPv6] without knowing it. ” And that may well be the case for blockchain implementation, regardless of the noise that surrounds all the competing projects on social media and mainstream news.

Blockchain sits one layer deeper than the subsequent application layers we are used to hearing about – from Silicon Valley unicorns to any other big technology giant that has made its money on one application.

When it comes to infrastructure, all you have to do is think about plumbing and plumbing. They are relatively usexy concepts, but are central to describing how information flows over the internet via protocols.

Blockchain (and later Bitcoin) serves a purpose of realizing the full potential of the Internet, and reactivating real peer-to-peer (or IP-to-IP) communication that should have been there decades ago.

Community and PII

When it comes to online communities, the interconnection of IPv6 and blockchain technology means more reliable systems to support online communications (and more). Every resulting trust stems from a simple mechanism: openness and immutability.

Right now, many communities are suffering from associated platform hacks, leaks, and subsequent sales of data (eg, personally identifiable information or “PII”). Although this activity is not unique to the internet, IPv6 and blockchain can help reduce such things and make it easier to track or incriminate.

Some may be reluctant to be “tracked” because it feels very Orwellian. But suppose everyone shares the same foundation (such as a single blockchain), can own personal data and firewall their PII. In this case, you ensure privacy while benefiting from a publicly shared ledger. It’s similar to how we all use the same internet.

Anonymity and criminal behavior

According to Eric Roberts, a professor of computer science at Standford University, his research on anonymity and criminal tendencies has shown that anonymity almost always leads to criminal behavior. And the reason for this makes sense when you think through it until it’s done:

Anonymity, because the inherent removes a person’s association with his actions, allows behavior without consequence, and therefore irresponsible; Similarly, when a person is fully identified, he can be tracked down and punished for his behavior. If a member of a community is not responsible for his own actions, he can commit crime without consequence. It therefore makes sense that crime is more likely when punishment is not a risk. In the case of pseudonymity, although punishment of the person is impossible, the reputation of the pseudonym in society will suffer, which other members will know to avoid him.

And it is this distinction between anonymity and pseudonymity that people exchange ignorantly. Although the idea of ​​anonymity may sound funny at first, research has shown that it ultimately leads to harmful or destructive behavior in society.

For communities to feel “safe”, they need to know that they can trust what they use. While trust comes in various forms, if the basic technology team is shaky, everything else contributes to a possible distrust of the whole. You can see symptoms that manifest themselves with the increase in cybercrime, platform hacking and various other issues.

Watch: Dr. Craig Wright’s keynote address: A Better Internet with IPv6 and BSV Blockchain at the BSV Global Blockchain Convention

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