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Title: The ever increasing need for decentralized uncensorable platforms Post by: LockedPost on January 09, 2017, 01:40:49 PM There is an ever increasing need for unncesorable platforms, with various approaches seen, which will emerge the primary choice?
Sites like https://steemit.com, http://twister.net.co and http://decent.ch use their own Blockchain to hold their data — this is great but is susceptible to hostile take over? - none of these sites actively encourage the sharing and strengthening of their network (as far as I am aware). Sites like https://lockedpost.com, http://eternitywall.it and http://cryptograffiti.info offer a way to insert messages into the Bitcoin Blockchain — which is a network shared by thousands and is backed by a market value similar to that of the entire Silver market (Current Bitcoin market cap: $14,531,991,030 [1฿ = $903.12]). This utilises the strength of the Bitcoin network to combat any potential take overs (although in theory it is possible to take over the Bitcoin network - but if that was to happen we would be living in a very different world than we are today). Other approaches can also be seen - such as https://zeronet.io/ — which harnesses Bitcoin cryptography and the BitTorrent network to offer a peer-to-peer system without any central server, allowing for uncensorable websites, similar to Tor onion sites (https://torproject.org) — which also cannot be censored or removed. Technologies such as NNTP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_News_Transfer_Protocol) have been utilised with projects like NNTPChan (https://github.com/majestrate/nntpchan) — which is a completely decentralized message board platform. There are a few popular sites using the tech — 2hu-ch being the main one — https://2hu-ch.org/. This is probably the best post-board solution currently and the the community actively promotes the creation of nodes to strengthen the network. I think we will see a rise in decentralised services as this is the only real way to combat censorship. What do you think? |