On 01/10/2014 08:57 AM, carlo von lynX wrote:
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 08:50:34PM +0100, Simon Rothe wrote:
Here is another one: Twitter based on Bitmessage: https://bitchirp.org/
Found this via Slashdot:
"twister is the fully decentralized P2P microblogging platform
leveraging from the free software implementations of Bitcoin and
BitTorrent protocols."
http://twister.net.co/
Sean
The problem with the *coin platforms is long-term scalability.
First the popularity creates an amount of traffic to be broadcast
to all nodes that home computer users can quickly no longer
participate.. after a while it becomes too expensive also for
VPS and private server contributors.. in the end each of these
platforms will be in the hands of few cloud operators that can
afford to run the show. Another factor is the ever increasing
size of the history data base. In practice, these architectures
lead to a point which is at best distributed over several political
shoulders, yet surprisingly similar to Facebook's current set-up.
Namecoin has a chance of lasting a bit longer, because transactions
are less frequent. Still Namecoin needs a caching front-end to serve
as a DNS replacement (and DNS itself won't do). At the 30c3 session
on Naming Systems that we had within #youbroketheinternet I kind of
came to the conclusion that GNS would probably be best suited for
distributing Namecoin information while also protecting the privacy
of name look-ups.
But if you've got GNS up and running why do you need Namecoin?
-Jonathan
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