[HN Gopher] Paris P2P Festival and Hackathon
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Paris P2P Festival and Hackathon
Author : zxxma
Score : 43 points
Date : 2025-01-28 15:55 UTC (3 days ago)
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| troebr wrote:
| How does this type of hackathon work?
| aloisdg wrote:
| Their social networks are twitter, discord and youtube. awkward.
| Reventlov wrote:
| It's not clear what it's about. I suspect some crypto bullshit.
| apichat wrote:
| Yes it's full of crypto and blockchain bullshit, nothing to do
| with p2p.
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| They won't speak about https://joinpeertube.org
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| Nor about implementation of WebRTC implementation in
| Transmission
| https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/47
|
| :-)
| ikmckenz wrote:
| Looks like past events had deep technical talks on libp2p's
| DHT (https://p2p.paris/en/talks/libp2p-dht/), and a novel
| gossip based pubsub protocol
| (https://p2p.paris/en/talks/gossipub/). Pretending that there
| is zero overlap between "crypto and blockchain bullshit" and
| p2p work is detrimental to everyone involved, there is
| serious p2p research and work being done both from crypto
| projects and from more traditional projects.
| api wrote:
| Most people around here hate crypto because it's so riddled
| with scams and vaporware.
| apichat wrote:
| In 2022 they gave :
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| 15 minutes for libp2p-dht
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| 30 minutes for gossipsub
| ikmckenz wrote:
| I have nothing to do with this event, but what do you
| gain from misrepresenting this? They also gave:
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| 30 mins on the state of the libp2p project
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| 30 mins on ipfs network measurements
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| 1hr on optimizing libp2p for mobile
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| 30 mins on an end-to-end encrypted mesh network chat
| service
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| 20 mins on an ipfs DHT performance improvement
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| 30 mins on the QUIC transport protocol
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| 30 mins on hole punching in libp2p
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| 30 mins on libp2p in the browser, which included
| discussion on WebRTC which you explicitly said was the
| kind of thing that wouldn't be covered
| (https://p2p.paris/en/talks/libp2p-browsers-future/)
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| Yes there's also some crypto stuff there (both crypto-
| currency stuff like bitcoin security, but also general
| cryptography stuff like zk proofs and post-quantum
| cryptography), but I struggle to understand why people
| react so negatively to legitimately interesting research
| because it happens to be coming from the cryptocurrency
| space.
| anacrolix wrote:
| Watch the early DevCons. 2015-2016, P2P is all excitement.
| From 2017 it's just blockchain hype ad nauseam
| jazzyjackson wrote:
| I guess this just went up? Ticket link goes to "no upcoming
| events"
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| EDIT: "speakers"/"talks" link is also out of date, no info on
| 2025 yet
|
| I would love to meet up with matrix, spritely, torrent and
| meshtastic nerds. I attended DWeb Camp in California for a couple
| of years and it felt balanced 50/50 between the P2P folk and the
| blockchain folk, which actually led to a lot of critical
| conversations but also the blockchain guys do want to distribute
| everything else too so it was good vibes all around, they just
| believe you have to incentivize sharing the load where us no-
| coiners have a little more faith in the altruistic side of man.
|
| From their meetup.com: _We organize physical meetings to discuss
| around P2P, decentralization, autonomous networks and
| communities, distributed systems, decentralized systems, offline-
| first apps, mesh networks, privacy, anti-surveillance, anti-
| censorship, security, cryptography, blockchains_
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