Block Chain: It's just not for Bitcoin anymore...

[4est_4est_Gump]

Muneeb Ali and Ryan Shea are the co-founders of Blockstack, a project to rebuild the internet using blockchain technology so that individuals can reclaim direct control over their own identities, contacts, and data. The goal is to bring the property rights we enjoy in the physical world to cyberspace.

These two Princeton-trained computer scientists—Ali completed his Ph.D. last month with a speciality in distributed systems—believe that today's internet is fundamentally broken. Users are forced to trust companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook to maintain our online identities and personal information. They store our files in giant data centers that are increasingly vulnerable to hackers. And the Snowden leaks revealed that the National Security Agency has strong armed these tech giants into handing over users' personal data without bothering to obtain court-issued warrants.

"Google has this saying, 'don't be evil,'" says Ali. "Maybe a company shouldn't be powerful enough that they're sitting there thinking, 'should I be evil or not?'"

So how does Blockstack propose to alter cloud computing, which has bought enormous efficiencies to the tech sector? Ali and Shea say they've worked out a way to break up internet data centers into virtual storage lockers that are fully encrypted, so individual users are the only ones who hold the keys to their own data.

"If you're a Dropbox engineer, you can go through my files today," says Ali. "But if I use Dropbox through Blockstack, they have no visibility into the data at all."

http://reason.com/reasontv/2017/06/22/blockstack-bitcoin-blockchain-internet

 

[Lancecastor]

I did some consulting work for the developers of a very elegant little encrypted cloud storage platform back in 2001....that stuff is like the Gasoline Carb...the big guys won't ever let you have it.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

So Google tries to by them out?



At any rate, the carb thing is just an urban myth...

 

[Lancecastor]

So Google tries to by them out?



At any rate, the carb thing is just an urban myth...

The more encryption available to the general public, the more intrusive governments will become.

Return everything to paper-based....that's how a real anarchist advances the agenda.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I don't really understand how computers and the interwebs work. I just turn it on and my favorite porn sites pop up.

 

[JohnnySavage]

More importantly; I don't really care how they work as long as I turn it on and my favorite porn sites pop up.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It is likely that government will make the scheme illegal.





I think I have a piss and lemon recipe for ink around here somewhere...


You think ISIS knows about this?

 

[Lancecastor]

I don't really understand how computers and the interwebs work. I just turn it on and my favorite porn sites pop up.

For guys like you, it's all very risky.

You should return to buying that stuff you get off on in magazine format; harder for the cops to trace.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I don't really understand how computers and the interwebs work. I just turn it on and my favorite porn sites pop up.

More importantly; I don't really care how they work as long as I turn it on and my favorite porn sites pop up.

But what about all those poor shlubs like Carlos Danger who have political careers to consider?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

For guys like you, it's all very risky.

You should return to buying that stuff you get off on in magazine format; harder for the cops to trace.

No, they have cameras everywhere with face recognition...


We'll have to employ F/X makeup technology.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I'll go buy kiddie porn in a Johnny mask...



:crosses fingers:


~*~ wouldn't want to get banned ~*~


... then we'll see how much he cares!

 

[JohnnySavage]

For guys like you, it's all very risky.

You should return to buying that stuff you get off on in magazine format; harder for the cops to trace.

Eh... my privacy disappeared 35 years ago when I was tattoo'd, fingerprinted and DNA tested. If someone is intent on finding me, it wouldn't be that hard.

Thankfully, I'm beyond the point in my life where I care much about such things and porn without fear.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I'll go buy kiddie porn in a Johnny mask...



:crosses fingers:


~*~ wouldn't want to get banned ~*~


... then we'll see how much he cares!

That'd never work. Everyone at the NSA watching my porn habits knows I'm into pixalated Japanese train porn.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

tee hee

 

[Lancecastor]

No, they have cameras everywhere with face recognition...


We'll have to employ F/X makeup technology.

That will be the Royal Ye.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Hell, it's hard enough out here to get cell service, let alone cameras...

 

[YarikB]

I wonder how many of you, guys, still use cryptocurrencies? Can you share from your own experience whether it was worth it to invest in crypto coins?

 

[RockOn2019]

Does crypto mining makes sense with the current energy prices?
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[Mandarinfish]

Does crypto mining makes sense with the current energy prices?

depends where you live, how much you pay for energy, what you are mining and what hardware you have.

 

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