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More about our project here that we wrote up for MozFest: https://community.webmonetization.org/udit/an-artist-centric...

Yes it is published to IPFS and Hypercore. The footer has the ipns:// and hyper:// links, and they " "-linked to IPFS and Hypercore gateways. You can access them directly on the DW…

Thanks! I was planning to post another Show HN when Distributed Press is more ready for people to play with. Right now the API key is manually generated, but hey hit us up if anyon…

Neat! Happy to connect here: hello [at] distributed.press We were also in touch with folks from Decentralized Science https://decentralizedscience.github.io

There are several new and exciting decentralized web protocols. I am working on a tool to publish to all of them. Right now it publishes to IPFS and Hypercore, and will eventually …

I think the _scope_ of privacy here should be clarified. Content on Aether is public. There is no concept of private encrypted messaging. The privacy guarantee is that what content…

There is no mining of cryptocurrencies. You are spending CPU cycles to compute a proof so spamming the network with user actions is non-zero cost.

Since Aether is a peer-to-peer network, the client syncs content and becomes a node itself to scale up the network's capacity. It also allows the user to perform actions without le…

My understanding is that any participant action requires proof-of-work. Social networks like Secure Scuttlebutt prevents this type of attack by syncing only data within social trus…