Re: [liberationtech] Looking for Feedback | Ombuds

2015-08-25 Thread Steve Weis
Hi Nick. I'll throw out some questions: - The Bitcoin blockchain is 40GB and growing at about 4GB a month. Will end users have to download that much data to their clients? Or will people be able to download a partial chain? If the latter, will this have to rely on trusted intermediaries? - If an

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for Feedback | Ombuds

2015-08-25 Thread Martin Becze
are you going to store hashes of posts in the blockchain or entire posts? also what blockchain are you using? On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Nick Skelsey nskel...@gmail.com wrote: I am bumping this post just once. I was hoping to see if anybody had any hold on kind of thoughts before we

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for Feedback | Ombuds

2015-08-25 Thread Nick Skelsey
I am bumping this post just once. I was hoping to see if anybody had any hold on kind of thoughts before we continue on our merry way building this system out. We are working to create a free public record for the Internet via user submitted statements. Any bits of wisdom you have helps! On

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for Feedback | Ombuds

2015-08-25 Thread Nick Skelsey
As of now, we are using Bitcoin's network to distribute all of the data, so entire posts are stored in the block chain. But we don't have a good way to distribute images and video, while still embedding the hashes. If you are worried about the amount of data the block chain can support, 25

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for Feedback | Ombuds

2015-08-25 Thread Nick Skelsey
Steve, My responses are inline. Thanks for the questions! On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Steve Weis stevew...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nick. I'll throw out some questions: - The Bitcoin blockchain is 40GB and growing at about 4GB a month. Will end users have to download that much data to their