> Obviously, answering all of these questions is a lot of work and the > goal of my thesis, but if anything quickly comes to mind, I'd > appreciate any contributions.
Blockchains are an elaborate solution to the problem of agreeing on a set of public events and in what order they happened. This seems a bit related to Agora's sometimes-problem of agreeing on what happened and when. I'm not saying it's directly relevant to Agora, though; we already have reasonably trustworthy mailservers and if we really wanted an unambiguous standard we could probably just legislate that the list archives entirely determine the set and ordering of messages. - Falsifian
