From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Fri Dec 7 19:12:51 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48B201316F37 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2018 19:12:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from mail.nomadlogic.org (mail.nomadlogic.org [140.82.23.70]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail.nomadlogic.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 62274733FA for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2018 19:12:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from duke.gem.co (cpe-76-175-75-27.socal.res.rr.com [76.175.75.27]) by mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 29b120c8 TLS version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO; Fri, 7 Dec 2018 11:12:43 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: New virtual (physical?) ports category: blockchain To: Robert , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <215d871c-8696-220b-ff4f-e7923d4de3d4@gmail.com> From: Pete Wright Message-ID: <61b3a4d8-5f6c-81ae-5680-fd9c67390cf3@nomadlogic.org> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 11:12:42 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <215d871c-8696-220b-ff4f-e7923d4de3d4@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 62274733FA X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.70 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; TAGGED_RCPT(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[nomadlogic.org]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.67)[0.672,0]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[mail.nomadlogic.org]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.98)[-0.982,0]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[gmail.com]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[27.75.175.76.zen.spamhaus.org : 127.0.0.10]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(-0.08)[asn: 20473(-0.33), country: US(-0.09)]; ASN(0.00)[asn:20473, ipnet:140.82.16.0/21, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; SUBJECT_HAS_QUESTION(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[] X-Rspamd-Server: mx1.freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 19:12:51 -0000 On 12/6/18 5:28 PM, Robert wrote: > So most of blockchain implementations and related libs reside in > finance\net-p2p categories, I think neither of these sounds as a good > category name. > > So I propose to move them into a separate category and name it: > blockchain (tada). > > The list of candidates we already have is definitely larger than > vietnamese\ukrainian etc so maybe worth a separate physical category? > (though not as large as x11-clocks yet but I believe much more is > coming...). > wow that's more ports than I had realized were available, and i think it would be something that would help me personally.  The only nit I have is that many of these seem to be crypto-currency specific.  Reason I mention it is I think we'll see more blockchain tools come out that don't necessarily deal with crypto-currencies. Although it's a pretty silly differentiation to make that most people won't really care about :)  +1 from me! -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA