Very nice @vandeberg, to find this post and listen to your explanation of what MIRA represents. While I do not have the level of expertise you cite, I have worked with normalized data structures for years. Through the need to understand what an application like MS Access can provide in the way of business solutions (like currently working on one to handle our family’s tax reporting requirements …).
So … This was more than a “casual” post reading for me.
Given your background and role, I have a question which is very important to me as an investor. It pertains to the whole “open source” approach to solving “real world” problems in advancing the capabilities of this new “digital asset” class. My question is how much confidence you have in yourself and your fellow “open source” co-workers that no “trojan horse” code could be introduced into it somehow / some way by a “hostile” agent of some sort?
My concern is that this is theoretically possible. I won’t take your valuable time to “spell out” what I mean by hostile, as I imagine (I hope …) you may have thought of those possibilities yourself. What I am asking is for your answer to the question, with the hope of receiving some assurance there are some very good programmers who are ever watchful, for just this possibility. Sort of along the lines of the famous quote:
”Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”
My sincere thanks to you and @andrarchy, for the effort to get this post made and out for us. Supported and resteemed, to do my small part to improve the understanding, of those of our fellow Steemians who may be interested, of how our Steem blockchain works "under the hood" ...
P.S. Also bookmarked in SteemPeak … 😉 … for future reference ...