Lux(λ) |光尘|空灵|GEB
Lux(λ) |光尘|空灵|GEB|Apr 21, 2025 15:16
The Deep Logic and Future Prospects of the Failure of Blockchain Social Platforms: From the Inspiration of Bitcoin to Distributed Human Machine Symbiosis Currently, social content platforms based on blockchain technology are generally facing development bottlenecks, which are fundamentally due to a one-sided understanding of the nature of blockchain and the disconnection between the closed system constructed from it and the real world. Simply treating blockchain as a decentralized database or point system, while ignoring its inherent properties as a complex adaptive human-machine symbiotic system, is the key to making it difficult for these platforms to effectively capture and incentivize real social behavior. A common misconception is that Bitcoin is merely seen as a single blockchain formal system of Turing incomplete consensus ledgers. However, a deeper analysis of the underlying architecture of Bitcoin reveals that it is actually a complex system that emerged from the fusion of three core formal technologies. Firstly, the blockchain technology itself solves the problems of consensus ledger and executable environment in a distributed environment, forming the backbone of Bitcoin. Secondly, there is the Individual technology of human-computer interaction mapping, which maps the physiological perception of human individuals to the digital expression of machines in a 1:1 manner. This is reflected in the digital structure of UTXO in Bitcoin, achieving a close relationship between digital assets and individual ownership. Finally, there is the integration of oracle technology under the P/NP computing model, which cleverly utilizes the difficulty of solving NP problems and the ease of verifying P problems. By combining miners' computing power investment (solving NP problems) with longest chain consensus (verifying P problems), it achieves anchoring with real-world energy consumption. The longest chain is the key link between solving difficult NP problems and verifying easy P problems. The root cause of the failure of previous blockchain social platforms lies in the fact that they only used blockchain technology to build a closed system that is isolated from the perception of the real world. This single formal system cannot effectively map the real content and interactions of human individuals, resulting in platforms built on independent blockchains such as Steem, as well as tokenized social applications based on public chains such as Ethereum, becoming only variants of centralized point systems. Although they can achieve decentralized management of points based on code trust, their core content production, value discovery, and governance mechanisms still lack effective connections with the complexity of the real world. To build a truly decentralized social platform, we may learn from the principles of Bitcoin's three major formal integrations. The Agere subsystem of the BitAgere project provides a potential framework for this. The core idea of this framework is to simulate the success factors of Bitcoin and build a social ecosystem of human-machine symbiosis: One is to build individual miners: In the Agere system, each user is regarded as a "miner" who is both a content producer and a judge of content value. This solves the problem of a distributed content account system and tightly integrates content production and value judgment with individual users. Secondly, the emergence of globally qualified content: Through users' "miners" independently rating the content, the system can emerge high-quality content that meets community standards from a massive amount of published content. This decentralized value discovery mechanism avoids the bias of centralized platforms and allows the value of content to be determined by community consensus. Thirdly, combining human intelligence and consensus mechanisms: viewing the judgment of complex attributes such as content quality and innovation as a "difficult NP problem" to be solved by the conscious activity of the human brain. The consensus on the rating results and the inclusion of high rated content in the "longest chain" (i.e. the main content flow of the platform) are regarded as "easy to verify P problems" and efficiently completed through consensus mechanisms. This design cleverly integrates subjective value judgments and objective consensus. Fourthly, using GEB to construct an incentive feedback loop: The Agere system can utilize GEB (G ö del, The ideas of self reference, recursion, and hierarchical structure contained in Escher and Bach construct a sophisticated incentive feedback mechanism to reward high-quality content producers and users who actively participate in content value judgments, thereby promoting the sustainable development of the platform. However, building such a distributed social platform still faces many challenges, among which one of the most critical issues is how to effectively address witch robot attacks. Malicious users may create a large number of fake accounts to manipulate ratings and obtain improper incentives, undermining the fairness and credibility of the platform. In addition to witch attacks, other potential challenges include how to design effective governance mechanisms, how to balance content freedom and platform order, and how to attract enough users to participate and form an active community ecosystem. Summary and Outlook The blockchain technology itself is not a barrier to building social platforms. The real challenge lies in how to go beyond the narrow understanding of blockchain, draw on the deep logic of successful cases such as Bitcoin, and build distributed systems that can effectively perceive and map the complexity of the real world. By integrating individual mapping, decentralized consensus, human intelligence and judgment, and effectively addressing challenges such as witch attacks, we may be able to create a truly vibrant and sustainable next-generation social content platform. The exploration of the BitAgere system provides us with a promising direction, and future practice will test its feasibility and lead us towards a more open, fair, and user centered social network future.
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