[2017-03-03] Zeronet Wants to Replace the Dark Web by Marrying Bitcoin to ....

[Gembul]

News Bitcoin - Zeronet Wants to Replace the Dark Web by Marrying Bitcoin to Bittorrent Over Tor

When the project launched in January 2015, the one-man effort had limited functionality  Zeronet Replacing Dark Web by Marrying Bitcoin to Bittorrent Over Torwith a blogging system and a chatroom board. However, it could soon use the Tor network for privacy, and the ability was there from the start for anyone to make other kinds of websites inside Zeronet, including social sites with dynamically-updating content.

Today, many useful Zeronet websites called ‘zites’ have been designed to mimic popular websites and apps like Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, and Popcorntime. The utility of the whole system is now far higher with additions like zite search, a private email client, a file manager, and the Zeronet-wide newsfeed that keeps track of your conversations across all zites.

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[d5000]

Zeronet is really cool. The "Zites" looks much better than the early-90s-themed Freenet sites and offer much more functionality like dynamic sites and forums, and so could be a worthy successor for this system. I already have played around a bit with it and it's working really smooth. I would like to see much more adoption for this service.

A small error I see often when the press describes decentralized informational media: It's not an "Internet" alternative, but a "WWW" or "Web" alternative. Zeronet uses the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) like BitTorrent does.