Re:Vapor – Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP
by sthnblllII on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @12:06PM
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Can you stop with the marketing speak? Goals aren't features.
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Re:Vapor – Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP
by rexpop on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @12:11PM
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Amen. At the end of the day, a tool is used for what it can accomplish—whether it was a goal, or not.
Re:Vapor – Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP
by vapormache on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @12:50PM
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Sorry about the marketing speak, I read it again and it does sound cheesy and I updated to tone it down. It still sounds a bit cheesy but I had to explain it that way to make my point.
Because the goal is not to lower hosting costs and avoid DDoS, but to create a data structure that can be routed around in a trustless manner (by double signing the HTTP requests and encapsulating in an offchain Bitcoin transaction format with unique SHA256 hash ids for secure synchronization), it's solving a completely different problem. The features were derived from this goal.
Re:Vapor – Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP
by X6S1x6Okd1st on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @02:53PM
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You only know that the connection has not been MITM if you have actually identified that the public keys that you want to use or trust that they are correct due to a WoT (e.g. they are signed by a CA your OS trusts or GPG WoT).
Re:Vapor – Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP
by monokh on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @12:58PM
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2 identities knowing data came from each other due to the properties of public key encryption. Is this a good summary? For which use cases should this property come in handy?
Re:Vapor – Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP
by jkhdigital on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @07:10PM
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Yeah it took me a while to figure out this is what’s going on, I don’t understand why it was tossed in a word salad.
Re:Vapor – Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP
by for_i_in_range on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @12:08PM
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Steve Jobs disagrees.
Re:Vapor – Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP
by TylerE on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @12:33PM
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If Steve Jobs ever used "benefit decentralization" as a noun, he would have cut his own tongue out rather than risk uttering it a second time.
Re:Vapor – Decentralized Web over Bitcoinized HTTP
by vapormache on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @12:39PM
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Just to clarify, I didn't use it as a noun. Here's what I meant:
> This difference in the interpretation of (what benefit) decentralization provides