Hello!
I don't know if you are ware of the new iniciative called Bitcloud, a new attemp to redistribute, decentralize, and anonymize information and content based on the ideas of Bitcoin.
With the proof of bandwidth concept, we can create decentralized applications for sharing bandwidth and routing network traffic. Bitcloud is a distrubuted autonomous corporation, which means nodes have an incentive to come onto the network. One of the many problems of certain free and open source projects in the past has been the lack of a profit incentive. With Bitcloud, nodes on a mesh network can be rewarded financially for routing traffic in a brand new mesh network. This removes the need for Internet Service Providers (Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, etc.). We can also replace many of the centralized applications on the current Internet, such as YouTube, Dropbox, Facebook, Spotify, and others with decentralized, open source alternatives. We will have to start by decentralizing the current Internet, and then we can create a new Internet to replace it. If you're interested in privacy, security, ending Internet censorship, decentralizing the Internet, and creating a new mesh network to replace the Internet, then you should join or support this project.
We are in the stage of designing the protocol and the economic model.
We are so
open in this regard, that we are recruiting economists and thinkers to cover any possible flaw and make this the perfect distributed application that will change internet forever.
You have the opportunity to present your own model, based in the general idea of Bitcloud, and become part of the team. We plan to remunerate contributors before the first alpha launch.
Further instructions to help us:
We are writing the papers and the protocol in a Github repo:
https://github.com/wetube/bitcloudThere are many contributors alread, but you can read my personal proposal, to get a general idea:
https://github.com/wetube/bitcloud/blob/master/economic-model-javier.orgThen,
very important, read some of the economic options that we are considering in this moment:
https://github.com/wetube/bitcloud/blob/master/bitcloud-decisions.orgThen you can go to the forum and read the economic thread:
http://talk.bitcloudproject.org/index.php?topic=3.15Also, you can chat live with us to discuss everything. We are at #bitcloud-dev (freenode IRC).
Please help us to make this a reality!
Best regards,
Javier.
