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by pfraze 9y ago
This is cool. It's using a pattern called the 'self mutating site'. During setup, you git-clone the application code and put it into a dat site you create. The app code publishes by modifying files within its own dat. When yo
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by pfraze 9y ago
Agree on that. They are both BitTorrent variants. I liked Dat's design a little better, and it's more focused on mutable data streams which is better for Web content. IPFS is good though and may end up getting supported in Beaker
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by pfraze 9y ago
This may not always be the case, but, so far, blockchains have low throughput and fat datasets that you have to sync. Compared to other databases, they don't perform that well, so if you don't need decentralized strict consensus,
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by pfraze 9y ago
You should jump on #dat or get in touch with someone on the team via twitter. They'd be happy to help you get setup.
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by pfraze 9y ago
Dat is both a protocol and a toolset. The protocol is basically an improved version of BitTorrent that supports changes and versioning (here's a short page on its technical merits [1]). The toolset is a commandline and some desktop app
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by pfraze 9y ago
From the article's final remarks section: > The empirical data and stories above do not mean that investors should stop trading all cryptocurrencies or pass on investing in blockchain-related products and services. > To the contr
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Things cryptocurrency enthusiasts probably won't tell you(ofnumbers.com)
460 points by pfraze 9y ago|178 comments
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by pfraze 9y ago
I guess I'd ask this question: Is it ethical to want to bring in unaccredited investors to a market that's known for being scammy and overhyped?
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by pfraze 9y ago
> “Do I think ICOs are silly, bordering on scams? Yes, they are,” he continued. “But, there are a few that are important, and the blockchain is more important than not… ICOs need to be regulated.” > At the same time, it could mean wo
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by pfraze 9y ago
Your argument boils down to: Tulip Mania was caused by the govt, BtC isn't a govt system, therefore BtC can't be a bubble. Tulip Mania gets referenced because it's ridiculous on its face, but what about the Dot-com Bubble or
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Noise: JSON full text and adhoc query engine built on RocksDB with Node bindings(try.noisesearch.org)
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So you want to decentralize your website(macwright.org)
5 points by pfraze 9y ago|1 comments
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In Response to “Is Decentralized Storage Sustainable?”(medium.com)
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A New Browser Is Making Peer-To-Peer Web Hosting More User-Friendly(motherboard.vice.com)
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by pfraze 9y ago
I'm not quite sure they are underused, but that's a relative judgment. Streams took a while to get right in node, and even now they're a little bit clunky. Not terrible, but not "pick it right up and run with it"
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by pfraze 9y ago
A peer-to-peer hosting protocol which publishes user data outside of site silos while still "feeling" like a web app. Bonus feature: end to end encryption.
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Introducing Hashbase, a “fungible” peer-to-peer hosting service(medium.com)
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by pfraze 9y ago
I'm glad you replied; I'm interested in this debate. I agree that content monetization is an important problem that ought to be solved in order to maintain quality of information. I disagree that current advertising models have el
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by pfraze 9y ago
Now that I've said something nice, I'm going to follow that up with a big F U to this app: https://www.cloudflare.com/apps/noadblock EDIT: a little pre-debate warmup for anybody that wants to get into it. Poi
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by pfraze 9y ago
This is the result of Cloudflare's eager.io acquisition. You might remember eager from some of their really awesome blog posts on the histories of various techs [1][2]. 1 https://eager.io/blog/a-brief-history-of-we
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by pfraze 9y ago
TL;DR: We can use the Dat protocol as a WAN filesystem, give the user a "Root Dat Archive," and build in a bash-like JS terminal. Users can configure and manage their system modifying files in their Root Archive, and can link in a
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Reimagining the browser as a p2p network OS(pfrazee.github.io)
5 points by pfraze 9y ago|1 comments
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Append-only feeds backed by signed Merkle trees in the Dat protocol(beakerbrowser.com)
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by pfraze 9y ago
'Inefficient to run but quick to code' is my motto.
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by pfraze 9y ago
Yeah but what you really want is base-emoji. https://github.com/pfrazee/base-emoji
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by pfraze 9y ago
You can use https://github.com/beakerbrowser/dathttpd to serve over p2p and http
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by pfraze 9y ago
Thanks for the heads up
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by pfraze 9y ago
An extension wouldn't let us define a custom protocol. We get more freedom this way. FWIW, our meta goal is to successfully demonstrate with Beaker, then approach standards bodies.
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by pfraze 9y ago
All true, though if you leak the private key, what will happen is that (due to lack of strict consensus between the leaked-key users) conflicting updates will be published, causing a detectable split history. That's a corruption event.
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by pfraze 9y ago
Conceptnet looks really cool, I'm going to dig into that later tonight. Dat's really similar to BitTorrent when it comes to availability; it doesn't do anything automatically to guarantee it. If you choose to use Dat, you&#x2

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