Show HN: Privacy-Focused Alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Word

Re:Show HN: Privacy-Focused Alternative to Google Docs and M... by vorpalhex on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:40PM (#20688225)

There are some reasons to be skeptical of Blockstack in particular. They make a lot of claims, pump cash into apps without disclosing it's actual source (they claim it's from sales of a subtoken, but aside from a blog post, I can't actually find any evidence of that) and in general have built a JS heavy library that is setup for easy code injection.

None of these apps need a blockchain. None of these apps gain any benefit from a blockchain. Just, I dunno, don't use a giant universally observable blockchain that suffers from the majority issue in order to store private data? Seems easy enough.

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Re:Show HN: Privacy-Focused Alternative to Google Docs and M... by jude- on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @04:25PM (#20689865)

Blockstack engineer here.

Regarding financials, I invite you to read our SEC offering circular for details on the source of the money: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1719379/000110465919...

> None of these apps need a blockchain. None of these apps gain any benefit from a blockchain.

The blockchain serves as a "shared source of truth" for everyone's name/public-key/storage-URL bindings. So as long as you trust that the blockchain doesn't get re-orged, you may assume that your Blockstack node will independently calculate the same such bindings as everyone else's node. All other application activity (rightfully) happens off-chain, via commodity Web infrastructure.

EDIT: typo

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Re:Show HN: Privacy-Focused Alternative to Google Docs and M... by Walterion on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @04:39PM (#20689989)

Thanks Jude for helping out ;)

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