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Twister: The Fully Decentralized P2P Microblogging Platform

Posted by Unknown on from the not-at&t-approved dept.

New submitter miguelfreitas writes "I'd like to offer for discussion with Slashdot readers this new proposal: twister is the fully decentralized P2P microblogging platform leveraging from the free software implementations of Bitcoin and BitTorrent protocols. This is not being pushed by any company or organization, it is the work of a single Brazilian researcher (me). The idea is to provide a scalable platform for censor-resistant public posting together with private messaging with end-to-end encryption. The basic concepts are described in FAQ while more in-depth technical details are available from the white paper. The twister network is running already: the client can be compiled for Linux, Mac, and Android. 2500 usernames were registered in the first 6 days."

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  1. Quick! Give this guy a billion dollars! by cowwoc2001 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Tech bubble anyone?

    1. Re:Quick! Give this guy a billion dollars! by cowwoc2001 · · Score: 5, Funny

      My definition of Tech Bubble: Your business doesn't have to generate revenue in order to grab an investment for a few billion. All you need to do is combine some popular buzzwords ("MicroBlogging", "Scalable" and "BitCoin").

      This guy can sell himself as the next generation of Twitter: "We use BitCoin technologies to enable Scalable Microblogging" :)

  2. Woohoo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    2500 users is impressive. That's about half the size of all Linux desktop users, right?