What happened to BitTorrent’s Project Maelstrom web browser?
In 2015, BitTorrent Inc introduced a P2P-revolution for website distribution. But it got side-tracked by investors ogling the “content” business along the way.
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P2P apps’ connection amnesia makes them less fault-tolerant
Peer-to-peer apps forget the IP addresses it communicated with in the last session and rely on peer-discovery all the time. Caching can make them more robust.
Four P2P distribution tools for Git repositories compared
Comparing how P2P protocols like BitTorrent, Dat, and IPFS can help you distribute your Git repositories without depending on a central server.
Smarter reusable IPFS chunks from HTML documents
IPFS splits files into chunks. Smarter splitting points in HTML files can create more reusable/deduplicatd chunks with higher availability.
Copyright and the distributed peer-to-peer web
An investigation into the legal-side and international copyright law when publishing on distributed peer-to-peer internet alternatives.
The distributed web isn’t ready for Runet cutoff from the Internet
Russia to test disconnecting from the global Internet. Peer-to-peer distributed internet alternatives won’t survive after the Runet cutoff.
Well-Known URI vs DNS-SD for distributed web service-discovery
I compare the resilience of DNS Service-Discovery vs HTTPS Well-Known URIs when routing distributed internet traffic around censorship.
IPFS pinning services overcharge for duplicated objects
IPFS is a globally deduplicated file system. However, hosted pinning services bill you for the original file size rather than deduplicated size.
When does IPFS’ garbage collector clear the cache
Garbage collection in ipfs-go isn’t enabled by default. The cache can grow to fill all your storage. However, you won’t want to turn it on either.
DNSLink and IPNS availability survey
I surveyed millions of websites to discover which domains were IPFS P2P DNSLink-enabled websites.
Why we need the distributed web
The web has become too centralized. The distributed peer-to-peer (P2P) web can help tear down the walled gardens erected by big tech companies.