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by vapormache 6y ago
Good question. Short answer: Vapor will use Starfish as the default wallet, but not exclusively. Long answer: While working on Vapor I found that most existing Bitcoin wallets are focused only on onchain transactions and money transactions,
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by vapormache 6y ago
I've been working on a new authentication system that does not use a third party. The main properties: Convenience: Uses Bitcoin Cryptography (Hierarchical Deterministic Wallet) to generate all identities from a single seed, no need to
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Show HN: Decentralized Authentication Powered by Bitcoin Cryptography(starfish.computer)
5 points by vapormache 6y ago|3 comments
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by vapormache 6y ago
It decentralizes not just "data", but requests themselves. Data is "already decentralized", but HTTP requests are not because their context is always dependent on the service provider's intent. Given an HTTP request
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by vapormache 6y ago
Sorry about the marketing speak, I read it again and it does sound cheesy and I updated to tone it down. It still sounds a bit cheesy but I had to explain it that way to make my point. Because the goal is not to lower hosting costs and avoi
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by vapormache 6y ago
Just to clarify, I didn't use it as a noun. Here's what I meant: > This difference in the interpretation of (what benefit) decentralization provides
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by vapormache 6y ago
> The whole point of a decentralized web is to remove data hosting costs and eliminate central points of failure which are vulnerable to DDoS and censorship Vapor has nothing to do with data hosting costs and DDoS. It solves the problem
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by vapormache 6y ago
Yes, there will be very powerful (yet not so obvious at the moment) use cases of GET requests, but at least in the beginning Vapor will be focused on state mutating requests such as POST/DELETE/PUT. GET requests can be dealt with
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by vapormache 6y ago
There are many ways to do this, but one way is to use Vapor as a proxy. Vapor server takes care of the authorization/authentication, and it routes the requests to an internal auth-less API endpoint not exposed to the outside world. Bas
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by vapormache 6y ago
One powerful feature for the "Bitcoin transaction as a packet" approach is that it can be extended to facilitate extra input and output scripts. Basically you can encode not just vanilla HTTP requests but also payment in a single
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by vapormache 6y ago
The requests are first signed on the client side by the user's Bitcoin wallet, and then sent to the Vapor server where the server signs with its own private key, and the resulting bitcoin transaction packet encapsulating HTTP is sent b
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by vapormache 6y ago
Hi, Vapor is a protocol for building a decentralized web, but takes a different approach from other existing "decentralized internet" projects. Instead of decentralizing the networking stack, Vapor focuses on on decentralizing the
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Vapor – Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP(vapor.network)
183 points by vapormache 6y ago|108 comments
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Vapor – Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP(vapor.network)
15 points by vapormache 6y ago|6 comments
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AI Training Method Exceeds GPT-3 Performance with 99.9% Fewer Parameters(infoq.com)
3 points by vapormache 6y ago|0 comments