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ZeroNet: Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and the BitTorrent network

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Re: ZeroNet: Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and the BitTorrent network

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I believe it is 100% feasible to create a decentralised, secure network for static content - i.e. static sites. Combined with powerful (and secure) client-side APIs we are on a good track to success. I am not sure what this is but I am sure going to give it a try.

Re: ZeroNet: Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and the BitTorrent network

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Curious about using Tor for anonymity. Tor explicitly asks users not to use it for bittorrent for many reasons. So if I have a ZeroNet site serving a nice big video over bittorrent, does my visitors' using Tor for anonymity go against their best practices?

Re: ZeroNet: Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and the BitTorrent network

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I'm following the developement of zeronet for the past 3 years. I'm not convinced that it is the final solution to the decentralized internet. A main thing that bothers me is the insane lookup-time for site with a low distribution. The same problem occurs with ipfs btw. It takes up to one minute to find a the correct node when only one node hast the content-hash.

Re: ZeroNet: Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and the BitTorrent network

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Last time I used that project I was trying to migrate my wordpress to zeroNet and I failed because my wp-content/images is over 3Gb and ZeroNet website is (was?) limited to 100Mb. Has this changed, are they tools that migrate images to separate addresses and link them correctly in html files?

Re: ZeroNet: Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and the BitTorrent network

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post #5

Does anyone else see it as an issue that the decentralized website solution to databases is to create a copy of a SQLite database on every user's machine?

I agree. This is the biggest technological issue for zeronet imo.

Every time there's a change to the db you need to download a whole new copy afaik.

Ideally you'd use a log based store. To do this you need to fundamentally change your idea for how a website works.

With a distributed log store chances are you won't have the same data as another person.

Re: ZeroNet: Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and the BitTorrent network

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post #7

Last time I used that project I was trying to migrate my wordpress to zeroNet and I failed because my wp-content/images is over 3Gb and ZeroNet website is (was?) limited to 100Mb. Has this changed, are they tools that migrate images to separate addresses and link them correctly in html files?

No, and the default limit is 10mb. Your site can request more though and or you can use zerocdn?

Re: ZeroNet: Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and the BitTorrent network

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I'm following the developement of zeronet for the past 3 years. I'm not convinced that it is the final solution to the decentralized internet. A main thing that bothers me is the insane lookup-time for site with a low distribution. The same problem occurs with ipfs btw. It takes up to one minute to find a the correct node when only one node hast the content-hash.

I need to read the IPFS paper but surely there's some kind of DHT to find data?
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