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I came across this the other day:<br>
<blockquote><i>"This paper presents a proposal of a new P2P
microblogging platform that is scalable, resilient to failures
and attacks, does not depend on any central authority for user
registration, provides easy-to-use encrypted private
communication and authenticated public posts. The architecture
tries to leverage from existing and proven P2P technologies such
as Bittorrent and Bitcoin as much possible. Privacy is also one
of the primary design concerns, no one should be able to see the
user’s IP or their followers unless he explicitly shares such
information. The proposed platform is comprised of three mostly
independent overlay networks. The first provides distributed
user registration and authentication and is based on the Bitcoin
protocol. The second one is a Distributed Hash Table (DHT)
overlay network providing key/value storage for user resources
and tracker location for the third network. The last network is
a collection of possibly disjoint “swarms” of followers, based
on the Bittorrent protocol, which can be used for efficient
near-instant notification delivery to many users. [...] "</i><br>
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-- "<a href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.7152v1.pdf">twister - a P2P
microblogging platform</a>", Miguel Freitas<br>
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Personally, I'm impressed by the creative application of
Bitcoin/Bitorrent/DHT protocols to the problem of private/anonymous
communication ... and the software looks very clean and usable as
well. I also like that it's based on P2P technology unlike solutions
such as Diaspora, which still require trusting third parties with
personal data ... <br>
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Thoughts?<br>
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--<a href="http://www.interference.cc">Jesse Taylor</a><br>
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