P2P Revolution - A Deeper Look Inside The Rabbit Hole of Utopia
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cmstrump · 2021-05-01 13:51

In Utopia, people have a genuinely decentralized network hosted by
their peers that affords them many of the modern conveniences of the
internet but in a fully encrypted and private format. New users
generate a public key which they can share with others for private
communication or choose to remain fully anonymous and chat publicly.

Content, ideas, value can now be shared in a censorship-resistant,
surveillance-free form that fully realizes the potential of the
Internet and Bitcoin in ways only dreamed about in years past:

* [Part 1](https://p2p-revolution.medium.com/a-deeper-look-inside-the-
rabbit-hole-of-utopia-part-i-2d29ccce2fee) -  Begin moving forward in
time from Usenet (User’s Network) to help better appreciate the
evolution of digital communication and the internet.
* [Part 2](https://p2p-revolution.medium.com/a-deeper-look-inside-the-
rabbit-hole-of-utopia-part-ii-965c46a7ba4f) - The heyday of the BBS
(Bulletin Board Service) as well as Internet Relay Chat (IRC).
* [Part 3](https://p2p-revolution.medium.com/a-deeper-look-inside-the-
rabbit-hole-of-utopia-part-iii-1846b96f17b1) - Rise and fall of
Napster, followed by the birth of a truly Peer-to-Peer content sharing
platform in the form of the BitTorrent protocol.
* [Part 4](https://p2p-revolution.medium.com/a-deeper-look-inside-the-
rabbit-hole-of-utopia-part-iv-a16ef579826c) - Introduction of Bitcoin
and the tremendous potential that exists in applying P2P technology to
money itself.
* [Part 5](https://p2p-revolution.medium.com/a-deeper-look-inside-the-
rabbit-hole-of-utopia-part-v-c3f1eccfb678) - Now, people have a
genuinely decentralized network hosted by their peers that affords
them many of the modern conveniences of the internet but in a fully
encrypted and private format.

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OMGItsCheezWTF · 2021-05-01 15:09

This sounds like a bullshit kickstarter pitch to defraud the gullible
out of their money.

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SuperBen32 · 2021-05-01 15:55

They state the protocol is not open source. How can anybody treat this
proprietary thing if nobody can audit it? It sounds like a fancy way
of just using PGP and web of trust. Look into things like Matrix or I
think Jami. This is sketch.