Twister: P2P microblogging platform

[Jesse Taylor]

I came across this the other day:

    /"This paper presents a proposal of a new P2P microblogging platform
    that is scalable, resilient to failures and attacks, does not depend
    on any central authority for user registration, provides easy-to-use
    encrypted private communication and authenticated public posts. The
    architecture tries to leverage from existing and proven P2P
    technologies such as Bittorrent and Bitcoin as much possible.
    Privacy is also one of the primary design concerns, no one should be
    able to see the user's IP or their followers unless he explicitly
    shares such information. The proposed platform is comprised of three
    mostly independent overlay networks. The first provides distributed
    user registration and authentication and is based on the Bitcoin
    protocol. The second one is a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) overlay
    network providing key/value storage for user resources and tracker
    location for the third network. The last network is a collection of
    possibly disjoint "swarms" of followers, based on the Bittorrent
    protocol, which can be used for efficient near-instant notification
    delivery to many users. [...] "/

    -- "twister - a P2P microblogging platform
    <http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.7152v1.pdf>", Miguel Freitas

Personally, I'm impressed by the creative application of 
Bitcoin/Bitorrent/DHT protocols to the problem of private/anonymous 
communication ... and the software looks very clean and usable as well. 
I also like that it's based on P2P technology unlike solutions such as 
Diaspora, which still require trusting third parties with personal data ...

Thoughts?

--Jesse Taylor <http://www.interference.cc>
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