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Re: Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging

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Post by [deleted] »

VLM wrote: post #17
Touche wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You misunderstand, this project is literally a fork of the bitcoin repo. They didn't just "copy general source code concepts". It's right there on their about page.

"the implementation of the neat idea of block chain is on the basis of twister." MS Excel uses do...while loops, my latest project uses do...while loops, therefore my project is based on Excel. I was reading it as algorithm use not literally forking the codebase as appears to be the case. Not everything using Quicksort is a kissing cousin of everything else using Quicksort, for example. Its still cheesy as a marketin…

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Re: Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging

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Post by bassclef »

VLM wrote: post #17
Touche wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You misunderstand, this project is literally a fork of the bitcoin repo. They didn't just "copy general source code concepts". It's right there on their about page.

"the implementation of the neat idea of block chain is on the basis of twister." MS Excel uses do...while loops, my latest project uses do...while loops, therefore my project is based on Excel. I was reading it as algorithm use not literally forking the codebase as appears to be the case. Not everything using Quicksort is a kissing cousin of everything else using Quicksort, for example. Its still cheesy as a marketin…

This is where your failing to understand what bitcoin is, makes you look like a fool. Bitcoin first and foremost is a PROTOCOL.. just like TCP/IP.. it is not the coins people are trading. The idea behind bitcoin and the ledger system was that it would be used to create further technologies that relied on the bitcoin PROTOCOL not the currency.. It also solved the two generals problem which stumped computer scientist for decades. The currency was just the first use of the bitcoin protocol.

Re: Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging

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Post by Joeboy »

gasull wrote: post #22

You can accomplish the same with Bitmessage broadcast addresses, and it solves the spam issue with proof of work. https://bitmessage.org/

I don't know much about Bitmessage, but aren't messages dropped after two days? So a new follower / visitor would only see two days' worth of my microblog?

Re: Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging

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Post by salient »

Joeboy wrote: post #24
gasull wrote: post #22

You can accomplish the same with Bitmessage broadcast addresses, and it solves the spam issue with proof of work. https://bitmessage.org/

I don't know much about Bitmessage, but aren't messages dropped after two days? So a new follower / visitor would only see two days' worth of my microblog?

Yes. I would disregard comparisons with BitMessage. I don't think they really target the same market. BitMessage wants to be more of a private snooping-free e-mail system. Twister wants to be more of a public decentralized social network (resistant to censorship).

There may be some technical overlap and functionality overlap, but I think they are more different than similar. It's like saying Gmail is the same as Twitter, since you can also broadcast messages with Gmail, and you can also send private messages with Twitter. But the two really aren't the same.

Re: Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging

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Post by Groxx »

>No IP recording

The IP address you use to access twister is not recorded on any server. Your online presence is not announced.

Can you really make that claim with a distributed protocol? Your IP address is visible to whoever you send data to, they could easily keep logs (heck my router does by default).

Re: Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging

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Post by pacofvf »

VLM wrote: post #12
Touche wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The project is a fork of bitcoin, uses bitcoin blockchains, but because it doesn't use bitcoin currency they shouldn't mention the lineage?

Yes, at least not as a marketing scheme. So this is a competitor of coinbase? Oh you mean its a miner. Oh no wait OK its like paypal but for BTC. So... they copied some general source code concepts? Thats it? What a scam. Thats not real bitcoin support at all. Its like saying a new game is internet compatible, in that if you install it on an internet connected computer its not incompatible with the OS. I actually saw…

The blockchain in twister is used as a distributed user registration database:

> How does it work?

> For the complete description you should refer to the white paper. But in short: twister is comprised of three mostly independent overlay networks. The first provides distributed user registration and authentication and is based on the Bitcoin protocol. The second one is a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) overlay network providing key/value storage for user resources and tracker location for the third network. The last network is a collection of possibly disjoint “swarms” of followers, based on the Bittorrent protocol, which can be used for efficient near-instant notification delivery to many users.

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