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I think the headline here is misleading. What they are offering is a prize to decentralize the internet - the actual network to which people connect in order to use the web. Judging from the other comments here, I don't think a lot of people have actually read the article. IPFS and blockchain are technologies that are built on top of the internet - they assume a network connection already exists.
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CJDNS + IPFS to me is a grand vision for an idealized, completely distributed web. Combine that with some sort of distributed naming system (Namecoin, etc.), and you have a system that requires literally zero central authorities to operate. You just generate your own IPv6 addresses that are derived from a private key you generate yourself, and it works out of the box with all existing applications that support IPv6.…
Off topic: Hey Kyle, how are the Supporter Plans working out for neocities? It'd be great to see a blog post about how the sites doing!
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lantern-a-global-satellit...
CJDNS is a self-organising IP address allocation and routing layer. A node's public key acts as its IPv6 address, and routing uses a DHT of those nodes. This style of network has the property that you can take two independent CJDNS networks, link them together, and all nodes are mutually addressable/routable. This is in contrast to The Internet, whose addressing is centralised on IANA. cjdns is moderately active, tho…