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Richard Barnes

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Trying to do right by the world, in part by using computers and cryptography. (🦋 DMs disabled, please use Germ 🦠)

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Bits of EntropyJul 2, 2026

All data should be permissioned data

My post with vague complaints about the proposal that made for permissioned data got a bit of attention. Daniel was kind enough to take the time to chat with me, and I wanted to provide some more fulsome thoughts as a result of that conversation. (To be clear, these are my thoughts; I'm not claiming that Daniel agrees with them!) tl;dr: If permissioned data is worth doing, it's worth doing for everything. Public data like we have today should be a special case. We should design the system as if ...