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I love the idea of mesh networking to decentralize the net and using OTS solutions to do so. In fact, I've pushed for it on HN. But, here are a few problems: *
by flibertgibit 13y ago
I love the idea of mesh networking to decentralize the net and using OTS solutions to do so. In fact, I've pushed for it on HN. But, here are a few problems:
* Before a "theory" website with cheesy blog/helloworld/contact images http://openlibernet.org/index.html#contribute http://openlibernet.org/index.html#contribute, come up with a solution. The U.S. has been through several years of executive and legislative branches led on both sides by activists with good intentions and no real, thought-out workable solutions. Beyond bumper stickers of hope, you must have solutions, truly sell them, compromise on some keys points so you have enough people on board, and implement. We don't need a page telling us about a net we can't use yet.
* Bitcoin. Don't tie something completely unrelated to a networking solution.
* To make it work (really), you need points on the network that can do short and long-range. Wifi only is not enough.
- higherpurpose 13y ago* Bitcoin. Don't tie something completely unrelated to a networking solution. Why not? We've seen plenty of good ideas that were inspired by Bitcoin (P2P DNS system, platform with a built-in Turing complete language, true P2P Twitter alternative for the first time, encrypted e-mail without PGP, P2P back-up solutions where you pay others to keep your data, rather than on a centralized place that can be hacked or abused, etc), and we're going to see a lot more like this. The only problem is that unfortunately Bitcoin was never meant to be a platform on which to build other "apps". This is why all these "Bitcoin-based" or Bitcoin-inspired projects are actually heavily modified versions of Bitcoin, and not apps that work on top of Bitcoin. But I think Ethereum will solve this by creating another "Bitcoin-like" platform on which you can build anything you want, and everything is P2P by default. http://www.ethereum.org/ http://www.ethereum.org/
- troymc 13y agoThey aren't using Bitcoin. They're using the Bitcoin Protocol but to trade in something else, which they call "Traffic." I suppose you'd be able to trade Traffic for Bitcoin, US dollars, or cabbage, once exchanges get set up.
- wmf 13y agoI don't think incentives are completely unrelated to networking. They may not have the right design, but in theory applying Bitcoin-like concepts to networking incentives isn't a crazy idea.
- gasull 13y agoPeople will share their connection in order to earn Libernet cryptocurrency.