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RE: My Background and Vision for Steem

in #steemit5 years ago

Interesting thoughts about the censorship resistance...

STEEM is already censorship resistant (for text at least), if you're a power-user. The difficulty is enabling it for casual users who rely on GUIs to fetch data and interact with the chain. Anyone hosting a website or listing his app in app stores is legally liable for whatever can be accessed through it. You can receive DMCA emails, get ISP-DNS blocked, or worse...

What we need to achieve true censorship resistance:

  • fully-static apps (i.e. no server at all - all data conversion work done in the UI) - already the case for DTube :)
  • no need to go through an authority to download/install - that means no apple store and no domain name. Rather the builds need to be shared via p2p like torrent or ipfs
  • no 3rd party integration (in the large sense). That means no domain names or ips anywhere in the code. The app should auto-discover peers and catch up with all the data on startup

The value of doing all that for blog posts or videos is kinda low tho, when you consider that you're gonna lose 90% of your users because of the added complexity.

But imagine doing it to build a decentralized marketplace (silk road) leveraging the escrow / savings / memo encryption / no-fees features of the steem chain?

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