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General Discussion / Re: [FYI] JoyStream
« on: June 17, 2015, 10:41:07 pm »You guys will also be interested in project maelstrom.
It's a browser based on Chromium, made by BitTorrent Inc and is basically a way to make websites into torrents. Popular websites load fast and are completely decentralized. So for example, sites like The Pirate Bay could remain active even if they lose access to every domain. And as long as you're using the Maelstrom browser, they're just as easy to access as any regular website.
Very strange.
I assume they are only useful for static content. I can't see how dynamic websites could possibly work. But I guess most things nowadays are moving to single-page web apps that communicate with the server using JSON over a REST API. So this could allow you to just use your web servers for the API and leave all other content to the decentralized network (which ideally is properly motivated through micropayments).