[liberationtech] Twister: P2P Decentralized Microblogging

[Jonathan Wilkes]

On 01/10/2014 08:57 AM, carlo von lynX wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 08:50:34PM +0100, Simon Rothe wrote:
>> Here is another one: Twitter based on Bitmessage: https://bitchirp.org/
>>
>>> Found this via Slashdot:
>>>
>>> "twister is the fully decentralized P2P microblogging platform
>>> leveraging from the free software implementations of Bitcoin and
>>> BitTorrent protocols."
>>>
>>> http://twister.net.co/
>>>
>>> Sean
> The problem with the *coin platforms is long-term scalability.
>
> First the popularity creates an amount of traffic to be broadcast
> to all nodes that home computer users can quickly no longer
> participate.. after a while it becomes too expensive also for
> VPS and private server contributors.. in the end each of these
> platforms will be in the hands of few cloud operators that can
> afford to run the show. Another factor is the ever increasing
> size of the history data base. In practice, these architectures
> lead to a point which is at best distributed over several political
> shoulders, yet surprisingly similar to Facebook's current set-up.
>
> Namecoin has a chance of lasting a bit longer, because transactions
> are less frequent. Still Namecoin needs a caching front-end to serve
> as a DNS replacement (and DNS itself won't do). At the 30c3 session
> on Naming Systems that we had within #youbroketheinternet I kind of
> came to the conclusion that GNS would probably be best suited for
> distributing Namecoin information while also protecting the privacy
> of name look-ups.

But if you've got GNS up and running why do you need Namecoin?

-Jonathan