there is one field where decentralization and p2p networks are really popular, and that's the cryptocurrencies domain. I haven't kept up with it when it started, but reading papers about different crytpocurrencies, I was surprised about how much of classical p2p networks they are using.
2016-02-02 17:08 GMT+01:00 Michael Rogers <[email protected]>: > Still here, still wrestling the P2P octopus, and still learning that > holy shit, centralisation is easier. But where's the fun in easy? > > Back in the olden days, people liked to write papers about sexy problems > like scaling a DHT to a billion nodes, but there was an unsexy problem > that never got solved and seemed to trip up a lot of real world systems: > you couldn't make a connection between two peers because of firewalls > and NAT. The systems that worked were those that had a lot of peers and > didn't particularly care which ones they connected to. > > Nowadays we can solve that problem with Tor hidden services (unless > you're using WebRTC, in which case have fun deploying your TURN server). > So my question is, what's the unsexy, unsolved problem that's stopping > people from building P2P systems today? > > Cheers, > Michael > > On 01/02/16 21:34, Alex Pankratov wrote: > > Every month I get this reminder and every time I think what a > > damn nice read this mailing list once was. Too bad it's no more. > > > > Shall we do the head count, gentlemen? > > > > Who else on here is longing for the good old times? :) > > > > -- > > Alex Pankratov > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Mailman [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > >> [email protected] > >> Sent: February 1, 2016 6:00 AM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: lists.zooko.com mailing list memberships reminder > >> > >> This is a reminder, sent out once a month, about your lists.zooko.com > >> mailing list memberships. It includes your subscription info and how to > >> use it to change it or unsubscribe from a list. > >> > >> You can visit the URLs to change your membership status or > configuration, > >> including unsubscribing, setting digest-style delivery or disabling > >> delivery altogether (e.g., for a vacation), and so on. > >> > >> In addition to the URL interfaces, you can also use email to make such > >> changes. For more info, send a message to the '-request' address of the > >> list (for example, [email protected]) containing just the > >> word 'help' in the message body, and an email message will be sent to > you > >> with instructions. > >> > >> If you have questions, problems, comments, etc, send them to mailman- > >> [email protected]. Thanks! > >> > >> Passwords for [email protected]: > >> > >> List Password // URL > >> ---- -------- > >> [email protected] p2p.hackers > >> http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/options/p2p-hackers/ap%40poneyhot.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > > p2p-hackers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > > > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers > >
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