ETethana·Jul 29, 2014Submission
1 points · Open discussionjminardi
syncnet
Python2014–2014
jminardi / syncnet
syncnet
A decentralized browser
2Distinct people
5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
410GitHub stars
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Observed mentions: 2014-01-20 05:20:54 UTC to 2014-07-29 19:10:26 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jan 20 | 2014-01-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jan 27 | 2014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 3 | 2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-02-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Feb 10 | 2014-02-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 17 | 2014-02-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-02-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 24 | 2014-02-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 3 | 2014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-03-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 10 | 2014-03-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-03-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 17 | 2014-03-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 24 | 2014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 31 | 2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-07 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 7 | 2014-04-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 14 | 2014-04-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 21 | 2014-04-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 28 | 2014-04-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-05-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 5 | 2014-05-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-05-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 12 | 2014-05-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-05-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 19 | 2014-05-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-05-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 26 | 2014-05-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-06-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2 | 2014-06-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-06-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 9 | 2014-06-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-06-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 16 | 2014-06-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-06-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 23 | 2014-06-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 30 | 2014-06-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-07-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 7 | 2014-07-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-07-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 14 | 2014-07-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-07-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 21 | 2014-07-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-07-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 28 | 2014-07-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-08-04 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesI am using namecoin to resolve bittorrent sync secrets in my distributed browser Syncnet:
https://github.com/jminardi/syncnet
It was fairly easy to integrate
In Can Namecoin obsolete ICANN (and more)?I just released SyncNet[0] which is a experimental web browser that uses bittorrent to distribute files. Decentralizing with bittorrent makes it very hard to censor a site, and greatly reduces the load on popular pages.
[0]: https://github.com/jminardi/syncnet
In What side projects did you start in 2014?Perfect timing, I just released a tool that enabled a more decentralized web. It used BitTorrent Sync to distribute files and I plan on implementing namecoin or colored coins for name resolution. As soon as an open source, stable btsync clone is released I plan on swapping it in.
The biggest drawback is that you can only serve static content, although I think many websites today would be fine with this restriction.
You can read more on my website:
http://jack.minardi.org/software/syncnet-a-decentralized-web...
Follow along with the development on github here:
https://github.com/jminardi/syncnet
In Tim Berners-Lee: We need to re-decentralise the webI am working on a browser that uses colored coins for domain name resolution and BitTorrent Sync for content distribution, you can find it here: https://github.com/jminardi/syncnet
In Bitcoin 2.0 explained