Re:Show HN: YourNote, a note-taking app that puts users’ dat...
by JeffMerlet on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @09:37AM
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What happens if one day Blockstack and Gaia go definitely away?
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Re:Show HN: YourNote, a note-taking app that puts users’ dat...
by aviaryan on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @09:59AM
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Even if Blockstack goes away, you can still access your data (in encrypted form) as Gaia is nothing but a storage system that is a wrapper over existing storage providers (aws, google cloud, and more). Now, the question is how you will decrypt it. Blockstack stores auth information on the Bitcoin blockchain so I guess you will be able to access your Blockstack credentials as long as Bitcoin blockchain is accessible and you have access to your secrets. Also, Blockstack and Gaia are open-source so it's unlikely they disappear with no trace.