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General Discussion / Re: Vegas!
« on: December 13, 2013, 01:05:05 am »
I bloody wish I could get to Vegas!!! I'll get there once I'm a millionaire from BTS
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Cool idea, I think there is something in it but it will require a lot of work like all our ideas. I'm starting to think the best way to approach DAC's is to work on very fundamental DAC's that will be useful for future, more complex structures (a webserver DAC for instance).
I often lay in bed thinking about DAC implementations, keep a note pad by at all times!
I think that should be included in keyhotee.
I2P is the same as any other central server based services.It is not. I2P is decentralized. It is a "layer on top of the internet" where you can (or will be able to in the future) do everything you can do in the "normal" internet - but encrypted, anonymous, censorship resistant. You can use torrents, e-mail, websites and much more in I2P. For example: if you create a Website in I2P (called eepSite) this website is on the PC you create it on. If you switch off your PC, the website is down. If everybody (every "user") in I2P switches their PC off, the I2P network is dead. There are no "central servers" keeping anything alive. Every user is his own server (and client) and uses other users' I2P-PCs to transfer encrypted data between each other (through tunnels).
Drawbacks so far: it is slow(er). But that should change as more users become active and the software matures.
And you need to run a (java-based) client-software all the time to use it.
While I'm convinced about the ingenuity behind BitShares and DACs, I'm still not sure if Keyhotee is in fact like http://xkcd.com/927/
Torrents are great, but they didn't catch on because they're good at legal sharing. (though they are) They caught on because they're good at illegal sharing.
However, we already have systems in place for this... GPG encrypted messages and networks like Tor, Freenet, I2P, etc... And at this point, Tor is getting pretty good at what it does. It's reasonably fast, and very easy to use.
That's all well and good, but the average person just doesn't give a shit about security. How many people use Facebook? How many people use Google instead of StartPage? StartPage offers almost the EXACT experience, and is actually discrete, however, the vast majority of people choose Google instead.