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Blockstack Browser — A gateway to a new, decentralized internet
Blockchain technology powers this new internet. With the Blockstack Browser, you’ll be able to access people, communities, apps, and services built on the blockchain from your browser. A gateway to a new, decentralized internet.
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@rrhoover @ryaneshea @albertwenger Thanks, Ryan! We're really excited about it. Can't believe that it's been 3 years since we were at YC together and just starting off :-)
@muneeb @rrhoover @albertwenger Yes we had an amazing YC class and an awesome weekly meeting group. Product Hunt, Checkr, Blockstack. Top draft picks.
Muneeb from Blockstack here. Ryan and I have been heads down building this out for the last 3-4 years with our team now. We're very excited to release the developer version of our browser that opens up our infrastructure / new decentralized internet to developers. Happy to answer any questions here.
Whoa is this an inspiring vision for the future of the Internet, or, rather, a new Internet
Curious to hear from the founders if the Blockstack Browser is intended to protect our identities as we visit all of the web properties we currently visit on a day-to-day basis, or if their intention is for developers to reinvent many of the most popular web applications entirely, rewriting them with blockchain technology, to exist in a brand new Internet, powered by Blockstack. Thx!
@johnexley On Blockstack people can register global usernames/identity that they directly own. So not registered with any company. Then users can login to any app using their own identity without passwords. This was simply not possible before on the traditional internet; no concept of a global username and user-owned data there.
Hugely interesting movement here and I wonder how long it will be until we look back and think how crazy the broken Internet has been.
I'm interested in whether this is as fundamentally new as it seems. Looking at your diagram, and maybe I'm reading this wrong, hosting is still centralized in a small subset of cloud services, so... What I'm seeing here is a layer on top of the internet using a different server architecture. How does this change the underlying fundamentals in the radical ways your copy promises?
@trulyadamant This is precisely my criticism. This isn't a peer to peer internet. This is a peer to amazon data center internet. Just like the one we have now. Yes, the traffic is encrypted, but...
@sunoxen perhaps even more than that, it's doing nothing to reduce the fact that these cloud services are what makes this work. Isn't the entire strength of the block chain that a central node like Amazon doesn't exist? Feels like forcing the blockchain to become more like the web and less like forcing the web to become like the blockchain.
@ianrountree @guylepage3 great! We at Monkop want to support BSBrowser. If you like it, please give beta access to me and we will be glad to help.
@ianrountree @fbaptista Nice. Feel free to download the latest version here.. https://github.com/blockstack/bl...
i dont understand... if its decentralized where are things hosted? what about DNS?
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