DWeb Primer

Why decentralize

Data Together, possession
p2p scalability

Isn't the Web already Decentralized?

who gets to be peers?
who possesses the information? who is even capable of possessing the data?
The web as it works right now is naturally centralised, for a simple reason: the bandwidth costs on a server is proportional to the size of its audience. This is why we need YouTube to begin with, instead of millions of people posting their videos on their personal page.

How to make a decentralized web?

If you want a truly decentralised web, you need to modify a couple things: get rid of HTTP, and use a P2P protocol instead. Generalise IPv6 and get rid of NAT. Give people symmetric bandwidth. Make secure software that is simple to implement, simple to use, and hard to misuse (it's not that hard dammit, just look at qmail).

Controlling access and deleting information

Cryptocurrencies, Incentives and Token-incentivised Networks

The upgrade path

Search/Discovery Advertising-based business models won't go away.

The Technology

In brief: immutable + authenticated data structures, p2p connectivity, and interoperable data formats
Merkle Trees
Peer to Peer networking
Unix FS as data format
Routing
Overlay Networks
Making it work in browsers
Future-proofing (ie. Multihash)

Is it safe?

If competent ultra techno geeks can get hacked, the problem looks to be unsolvable for the general homeowner to safely run a p2p server.
Feudal security (Schneier)
Gigantic data leaks by centralized parties (Equifax, Experian, etc)

IPFS Primer

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