Repbin release v0.0.2

Cathal (Phone) cathalgarvey at cathalgarvey.me
Wed Sep 9 23:44:48 PDT 2015


No blockchains, but you've seen gittorrent right? :)

On 9 September 2015 23:47:31 IST, rysiek <rysiek at hackerspace.pl> wrote:
>Dnia środa, 9 września 2015 21:48:56 jim bell pisze:
>> >About Repbin:
>> >Repbin is an encrypted pastebin for the command line that runs over
>Tor!
>> >Repbin servers form a distributed network where nodes sync posts
>with
>> >each other (like in Usenet or BBS/Fido systems). This makes Repbin
>> >resilient and scalable. Repbin focuses on privacy (encrypted
>messages)
>> >and anonymity (padding and repost chains). To limit spam and
>> >denial-of-service attacks, Repbin uses the Hashcash proof-of-work
>> >algorithm which is widely known from Bitcoin mining.
>> >Learn more about Repbin here:
>> >https://github.com/repbin/repbin/blob/master/README.md
>> 
>> Has anybody ever considered the idea of doing otherwise-useful CPU
>work with
>> the power currently expended  by computing hashes in Bitcoin mining?
>
>My dream would be a distributed github replacement (a'la gitchain)
>where 
>proof-of-work is somehow related to compilation, running tests, or
>somesuch.
>
>> The most obvious application would be weather forecasting:  It could
>use a
>> huge amount of computation, on a continuously ongoing basis, and is
>valuable
>> to every nation on earth.  Whether it can be lasso'ed into a
>bitcoin-mining
>> engine, I don't know.
>
>Probably not -- the "thing" mined has to be easily verifiable by other
>nodes. 
>How does one verify a weather forecast in such a setting? ;)
>
>-- 
>Pozdrawiam,
>Michał "rysiek" Woźniak
>
>Zmieniam klucz GPG :: http://rys.io/pl/147
>GPG Key Transition :: http://rys.io/en/147

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