Posted on 10/03/2016 4:34:13 AM PDT by Hostage
The Blockstack approach should make shutting down the internet or blocking a particular site considerably more challenging. Domain registration is turned over to a blockchain (right now, that’s the original bitcoin blockchain), and no private interest needs to be involved. There’s no single point to tell computers where to look to find a site. There’s lots of places, and the more people use it, the more places there will be. If one path to information is shut down, another can found.
On this internet, no one would need to log in to websites, because your browser would use its built in public-private key pair to validate you on each site you visited. Online payments would not need a middleman like PayPal, either, because they would be made using the cryptocurrency wallet built into the browser. All of this, by the way, also makes building websites easier, according to Ali and Shea, because developers aren’t responsible for securing your data or your passwords.
“You could imagine an app that’s 200 lines of code,” Shea said.
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This is relevant for those that are in tune with the recent handoff of ICANN to a global entity. It's gratifying to know that the internet as we know it will be obsolete soon.
Note the special importance of this quote taken from the excerpt above:
Domain registration is turned over to a blockchain (right now, that’s the original bitcoin blockchain), and no private interest needs to be involved. There’s no single point to tell computers where to look to find a site. There’s lots of places, and the more people use it, the more places there will be. If one path to information is shut down, another can found.
Does Al Gore know about this?
Related:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3474800/posts?page=20#20
https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/13/building-a-brand-new-internet
The government will put a stop to this.
The fearful on FR give them the most ideas.
There are minor caveats when considering blockchain for DNS (or anything else like that). First there has to be enough incentive to get lots of blockchain miners. If there are not enough miners then there won’t be enough nodes to look that stuff up and there could be collusion to alter the chain. What that means is that someone will have to incentivize those miners by buying DNSCoin (or whatever it is going to be called) from them. If we use the Bitcoin blockchain instead, then everybody who wants a DNS entry will have to pay a penny or two to get their entry on the blockchain. The price will probably go up a bit over time.
Not really, not going to happen.
It will take off big time.
You are probably right. The blockchain is now time-tested and very egalitarian so the geeks love it.
P4L
Mark
OpenDNS is available, and has been for some time. It allows you to override default of your ISP as the name server provider.
Google's Public DNS is actually more widely used than OpenDNS.
Both Google's DNS and OpenDNS get their information from the root domain servers (the ones operated by ICANN).
Of course, either service might offer additional domain names to their users if ICANN gets heavy-handed with the root domain. But, only users of that DNS service would see those domain names.
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