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Re:Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat applic... by zerognowl on Sunday October 16, 2016 @02:23PM (#12720064)
> "As seductive as a blockchain’s other advantages are, neither companies or individuals are particularly keen on publishing all of their information onto a public database that can be arbitrarily read without any restrictions by one’s own government, foreign governments, family members, coworkers and business competitors"

https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/01/15/privacy-on-the-blockcha...

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Re:Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat applic... by lgierth on Sunday October 16, 2016 @02:38PM (#12720174)
There is no blockchain in IPFS.
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Re:Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat applic... by zerognowl on Monday October 17, 2016 @12:08PM (#12726340)
Oh okay, I was confusing it with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZeroNet
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Re:Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat applic... by doublec on Monday October 17, 2016 @04:51PM (#12729606)
There's also no blockchain in ZeroNet.
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Re:Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat applic... by lgierth on Monday October 17, 2016 @06:10PM (#12730257)
Isn't Bitcoin a pretty integral part of ZeroNet though? (I haven't tried it out myself yet.)
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Re:Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat applic... by doublec on Monday October 17, 2016 @06:52PM (#12730555)
No. The addresses used for the sites are compatible with bitcoin addresses, that's about it.
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