We had a chance to talk to John Carvalho, CEO of Synonym, the company behind Pubky, a new decentralised web protocol and social platform which is currently in beta testing. Pubky offers a radical new take on the decentralised web and decentralised social media, which... The post What is Pubky? appeared first on Bitfinex blog.| Bitfinex blog
Decentralised social media platforms are gradually positioning themselves as viable alternatives to their centralised counterparts, though their readiness for mainstream adoption still hinges on several factors. While the underlying infrastructure, driven by protocols like ActivityPub, blockchain, and cryptographic identity systems, has matured significantly, widespread user... The post Are Decentralised Social Media Platforms Ready for Primetime? appeared first on Bitfinex blog.| Bitfinex blog
Not too long ago, I tried to paint a picture of what a vision for a value-enabled web could look like. Now, only a couple of months later, all this stuff is being built. On nostr, and on lightning. Orange and purple, a match made in heaven. It goes without saying that I’m beyond delighted. What a time to be alive! nostr Here’s the thing that nostr got right, and it’s the same thing that Bitcoin got right: information is easy to spread and hard to stifle.1 Information can be copied quick...| dergigi.com
The internet has a problem. Few people know that this problem exists, but hey, that's the nature of serious, non-obvious problems: they are invisible until they aren't. The problem with the internet is that information wants to be free. And if something wants to be free as in freedom, given enough time, it will also be free as in beer. Let me explain. Poisoning the Air We consume untold amounts of data every day. Every second of every minute, bits and bytes are streaming through the series of...| dergigi.com
Speaking freely is more important than ever, offline and online.| dergigi.com
这两天在网络上又有一个东西火了，Twitter 的创始人 @jack 新的社交 iOS App Damus 上苹果商店（第二天就因为违反中国法律在中国区下架了），这个软件是一个去中心化的 Twitter，使用到的是 nostr – Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays 的协议（协议简介，协议细节），协议简介中有很大的篇幅是在批评Twitter和其相类似的中心化的产品，如：Mastodon 和 Secure Scuttlebutt 。我顺着去看了...| 酷 壳 - CoolShell