Matthew Roberts

I am a cryptobiologist specializing in the study of digital life forms like blockchains and certain kinds of unbounded smart contracts. “We must not let our politics harm these beautiful creatures.” – Myself.

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P2P Mobile Carriers

Abstract

A peer-to-peer marketplace for mobile plans would allow mobile service to be provided with minimal friction and lead to new innovations in the mobile system. In this post, I introduce a new protocol for sharing access to mobile plans with untrusted third-parties.

The protocol uses secret contracts to share U/e/SIM credentials without revealing secrets to a third-party. Due to the way authentication is handled in the mobile system, a third-party is able to authenticate without a secret key, and end-to-end encryption can be applied to prevent owners from reading messages- even with full knowledge of a secret key pair.

To prevent duplicate logins, I introduce a novel method based on fuzzing the state of temporary identity allocation in the visitor location registry. The technique results in cryptographic proofs that can be used to penalize a bad actor if they breach the terms...

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Chief Painting Officer

Company Inc.

We’re amazing. We synergise business synergy leading to unique enterprise advantages. There’s at least 10 different ways to build market value and promote market goodness. We help to provide B2B for our DevOps customers leading to an innovation-first culture across our divisions.

[At least 10,000 more words here]

Incredible. Powerful. Adjusted. Flow charts. How do we know? We just know. Enterprise. That’s just plain value. [Pay attention. There’s often a sentence about what the company does around here.] That makes Company Inc. well positioned for B2B changes.

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Chief Painting Officer with at least 400 years of painting experience dating back to the renaissance (preferably until when the first cave painting was discovered.) The right applicant must have experience using:

  • Blue paint while sitting...

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