Dynamicland – incubating a humane dynamic medium.
“username or password incorrect” is bullshit.
Here is a service to easily upload your files to the decentralised, permanent Web, and for sharing them via e-mail.
Through all the research on IPFS I just learned about Neocities – “the new Geocities. Create your own free home page, and do whatever you want with it”. (The name Kyle Drake seems to be the glue between both.)
To rebuild the web we lost to automation and monotony, and make it fun again.
IPFS vs dat.
So you want to decentralize your website with IPFS.
Relevant: HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the distributed, permanent web.
Six main disadvantages of Bitcoin and the blockchain.
For me personally, the most disadvantageous are the gigabyte sizes of the various blockchains one needs to download and sync when trying to participate as a node.
The most impressive Ðapp I have seen so far (found via stateofthedapps.com) is leeroy.io, a short message service using Ethereum for signing up, posting, following etc. (micropayments for interactions, in some way).
Makes a lot of sense if you think about how incentives could change because there is a perceptible cost involved. Then again, of course, it’s all about the money. Anyway, we will mainly see gambling and betting Ðapps in the long run… betcha.
While I was still musing about the past and future of web publishing, some other folks implemented a whole new universe around the blockchain…
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Smart Contracts in Ethereum
- Build your first Smart Contract
- Getting Up to Speed on Ethereum
- Building a ÐApp with Truffle
- Full-Stack Hello World Voting Ethereum Dapp Tutorial
Better than 8.8.8.8: opennic.org
Half-full or half-empty? (Completely full, of course.)
“The world’s getting better all the time“ vs “The Pessimist’s Guide to 2028”.