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Why I find it kind of cute is that those buys (GNS fcfs) are basically meaningless - in a p2p system everyone can just host a service like this.

I find it kind of cute that they set up this mock-up currency 'kudos' to toy around with it. ( https://demo.taler.net/en/ ) What makes it (more) cute is that you can use it to rese…

Won't the vendors just design their prices in a way that it's economically feasible for them - they just include the transaction costs in the price?

...and, as quoted by sunshine_reggae, lower transaction costs.

My understanding here is that the main objective is to break up the MasterCard/Visa duopoly. I guess breaking up duopolies is always a win for the general public, no?

People should know that 1. it's not based on any kind of blockchain, 2. it's not a currency, it's a payment system which you could use to transfer other currencies (euro, dollar, .…

You might want to have a look at the GNS (GNU Name System): https://www.gnunet.org/en/gns.html https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/id/draft-schanzen-gns-01.ht... To my understanding, …

There has been a rust-library for signal in the works. I read some discussion on it that made it clear the aim was to develop a proper signal-desktop application. The rust-library …

I was not surprised that it happens, but I was quite astonished about the extent of it. Also it's nice to have proof and insight.

You might want to have a look at presage - an implementation in rust: https://github.com/whisperfish/presage

You can find the main changes over the last version in the first chapter of the specification: https://bugs.otr.im/otrv4/otrv4/-/blob/master/otrv4.md#main-... Quote: - Security lev…

Yes, sure. But that's fine - everyone who wants to have their GNS can design their own DHT. It's still outside of the spec. (Which makes a lot of sense to me.)

Also from Ursula K. Le Guin: The Dispossessed. Not mind bending for someone who spent some time trying to imagine a anarchist society (but still quite enriching), but maybe for oth…

About the same time that "Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22570684 ).

Don't you think that "ideological reasons" can be quite a good reason to do things? Besides, following ideological reasons only means to value certain (other) aspects higher for ev…

If you're interested in contributing: https://gnunet.org/en/engage.html

Tutorials: Install: https://gnunet.org/en/install.html In a Nutshell usage (wip): https://gnunet.org/en/use.html

"Physical impossibilities of p2p models" - Although there might be structural limitations, I think they're not too strong. Just because we currently do not have a major p2p network…

Let it run on the router or NAS...

Yes, cryptocurrencies was one way. (I don't think that it's really complicated.) But on the other hand I don't think that it's really expensive. As in have a RasPi lying around at …

The content could live at peers that are online all the time. This could be either your own node or not. If it's not your own node the network has to be designed in a way that the …

I fully agree. The problem is that it's even harder to design something that is fully p2p than something federated. (One thing that tries to be exactly what you want would be https…

If you're no big company, it's quite hard to build a device that is somewhat free, has current hardware specs and is cheap. There's a small company that is trying to continue the o…