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Re-Decentralization of the Web (2014-present)

NB: While bitcoin was initially launched in 2009 it did not have mainstream impact until 2014 or later.

Early Rumbles of a return to P2P

  • P2P Data Backup: Tahoe-LAFS, Crashplan
  • Efforts to decentralize social data: Diaspora, SoLID
  • Bitcoin whitepaper and software released (2009)

The Role of Bitcoin and Blockchains

  • Bitcoin ended the P2P winter.
  • Difference between p2p, decentralized web and blockchains
    • blockchains allow you to make verifiable public statements in a trustless environment
    • Examples of decentralized without blockchain: Peerpad, Patchwork
  • Public Ledgers do have big potential
  • Legitimacy - people believe in money

The New Generation of Peer to Peer technologies

  • git
  • IPFS and dat
  • matrix, patchwork, mastodon
  • Encryption: Signal and Open Whisper Systems, keybase
  • Ethereum
  • The explosion of blockchains and blockchain-based stuff