PeerTweet – Decentralized feeds using BitTorrent's DHT network

Re:PeerTweet – Decentralized feeds using BitTorrent's DHT ne... by clemensley on Monday February 22, 2016 @05:26AM (#11149824)

While still a work in progress, the guys at Datt (Decentralize All The Things) are working on a decentralized Reddit alternative that will "run in a web browser and can be used as easily as any web app". What I find interesting about that project is that there are plans to integrate payments.

All successful decentralized applications are based on an implicit economic model (like trading data for data in BitTorrent). Without payment integration these systems are using a barter instead of a market system. When decentralized apps start to integrate payment systems they will move from barter to market economies, which will unleash a new wave of innovation imo.

Sources on Datt: http://datt.co/ https://github.com/dattnetwork/datt/blob/master/docs/general...

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Re:PeerTweet – Decentralized feeds using BitTorrent's DHT ne... by hellbanner on Monday February 22, 2016 @09:10AM (#11150845)

"Although it is common for companies to build products that lock-in users at a protocol level, we believe it is better that people use our products and services because they get value from them, rather than because we have built a barrier to exit. If users are not choosing to use our products or services, this is a valuable sign that we are not building the right thing."

Wow.

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Re:PeerTweet – Decentralized feeds using BitTorrent's DHT ne... by juanpabloaj on Monday February 22, 2016 @10:40AM (#11151496)

A few weeks ago, I made this small experiment https://github.com/juanpabloaj/markdowntorrent , distributed markdown content in http over bittorrent

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