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Johan Bové

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

IT and futures — John Conor Ryan

If you’re a disgruntled user of social media, or an entrepreneur or investor seeing opportunity in the wave of disenchantment, you’re wondering if alternative social media are important, or is “just” creating more walled gardens a bad idea? Instead, do decentralized intermediaries, such as T decentralization, dweb, indieweb, syndicated

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Tutorial: How to host your own distributed file sharing service on your pc

Let us explore IPFS through an example. At present, we use the combination “https://www” plus an address to find information on the internet. This is a location-based system. decentralization, internet, ipfs, syndicated, tech, web

Johan Bové

Tutorial: How to host your own distributed file sharing service on your pc

Let us explore IPFS through an example. At present, we use the combination “https://www” plus an address to find information on the internet. This is a location-based system. decentralization, internet, ipfs, syndicated, tech, web

Johan Bové

Tutorial: How to host your own distributed file sharing service on your pc

Let us explore IPFS through an example. At present, we use the combination “https://www” plus an address to find information on the internet. This is a location-based system. decentralization, internet, ipfs, syndicated, tech, web

Johan Bové

Blockchain Lab: Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Development

The GIZ Blockchain Lab focuses on examining a subset of the most promising blockchain applications, which outline clear added value in terms of societal benefit as expressed by the SDGs. For example: blockchain, decentralization, syndicated

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Land Registration (1/3) : Overview of the current situation

Currently 70% of the world’s population has no access to conventional land registration/tenure systems. Worldwide, less than 32 countries give access to their citizens to a functioning, nationwide, centralized land administration that encompass local registration systems. blockchain, decentralization, syndicated

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Introducing Polis

The world's next prevalent economic and governance system is already sprouting from the current one. This new system is called cooperatism and can be a driving force for healing our biosphere. decentralization, syndicated

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Universal Basic Income for Bali Research Report

This research report, supported by Polis, presents findings from a survey of Indonesians living in Bali for a UBI experiment based on Circles. Circles is a project that puts basic income on the blockchain. circles ubi, decentralization, syndicated, ubi

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web

I spent a large part of 2019 working with the distributed and decentralized web, especially IPFS, also known as the “Inter-Planetary File System”. I’ve written a few articles on the topic, on how you can host a web app on IPFS, one of which even ended up on the front page of HackerNews. decentralization, syndicated

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What is an IPFS Pinning Service?

The Interplanetary File System, or IPFS, is a distributed storage network made up of “nodes” or computers all over the world where people and apps are storing and sharing data. decentralization, ipfs, peer-to-peer, syndicated

Johan Bové

Johan Bové

Introducing P2P Matrix

TL;DR: we shipped a major update (v0.1.1) to https://p2p.riot.im - fire up a desktop Chrome or Firefox in not-private-browsing mode and give it a go! decentralization, matrix, peer-to-peer, syndicated

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BitTorrent v2

libtorrent-2.0 has just been released with a few major new features. One of them is support for BitTorrent v2. Most of the specification work of BEP 52 was done by the8472. The libtorrent support for bittorrent v2 was mostly implemented by Steven Siloti. decentralization, peer-to-peer, syndicated, tech, torrent

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Element secure messenger review

Element is another encrypted chat app for the security conscious to consider, offering not just end-to-end encryption but also decentralized storage, so your message data isn't held in one place by one company – you can even set up your own server, if you want to. decentralization, internet, matrix, syndicated, tech

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What happened to BitTorrent’s Project Maelstrom web browser?

In April 2015, BitTorrent Inc. announced the public beta of Project Maelstrom; its new experimental peer-to-peer web browser. The browser reimagined the web using the company’s name sake file-sharing protocol. decentralization, peer-to-peer, syndicated, tech, tech-longevity

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4 ways to send encrypted messages on Android

At some point in your mobile life, you're going to need to send an encrypted message. Whether it's mission-critical, sensitive business data, personal information, or a secret family recipe, the need to hide that information away in an encrypted missive will come to the fore. decentralization, encryption, internet, security, syndicated

Johan Bové

The end of the cloud is coming

We’re facing the end of the cloud. It’s a bold statement, I know, and maybe it even sounds a little mad. But bear with me. The conventional wisdom about running server applications, be it web apps or mobile app backends, is that the future is in the cloud. decentralization, decentralized web, internet, syndicated