Re:The Blockstack Browser: A Gateway to a New, Decentralized...
by muneeb on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @09:56AM
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It's an open-source project with 4 years of research and development behind it. The architecture implemented here is actually inspired by David Clark (Chief Protocol Architect of the internet) and his new design principle, called trust-to-trust design, that aims to fix critical security issues with the current design of the internet.
I agree that rebuilding everything is hard and that's why we reuse not only TCP/IP and everything below TCP/IP in the stack, but we also reuse existing infrastructure in a decentralized way.
We've already built this stack and have been running it in production for 3+ years. Please see our peer-reviewed research papers and our whitepaper at http://blockstack.org/papers for more details. Happy to answer any questions!
0. It's self-promoting a panacea "fix" as a product at the wrong level of abstraction.
1. Protocols and standards exist for interoperability.
2. Tries to rebuild everything (supply- and demand-sides) while fixing very little.
Fix what's here and now for the benefit of everyone with a migration path, not for the benefit of a few in a temporary, constrained, arbitrary way divides people similarly to the way Facebook tried to foist another internet onto the third-world.