Scuettlebutt is an incredibly important data structure. Its horribly under rated and horribly under invested in. Its core data structure is a personal blockch

Scuettlebutt is an incredibly important data structure. Its horribly under rated and horribly under invested in. Its core data structure is a personal blockchain whose consensus scheme is a proof of signature and a proof of history (through chained hashes). There is no global consensus, identity is fiat as it is in the real world. This makes the data structure gossipable and verifiable. It has scaling challenges. It needs to be turned into a blocktree to support multi-device support. The content needs to be moved out of the tree. But most of this is solvable with very little effort. Scuttlebutt is an overlay network for the internet that enables us to build a truly open web. Its one step away from making humans, their devices, and their content, addressable for the web in a meaningful way. That small data structure removes the need for a central server. The future will remember what dtarr did on a sailboat.