(just re-bumping to get this looking better in preview)
it's quite technical, i'm working on a tiny part of the cryptography for
this project, but this is a technology that will enable fully
decentralised git hosting, with the metadata broadcast over nostr and
available to any nostr relay running HORNET storage, watches the
blockchain and can automatically detect updates for the files knowing
what to ask for by the signed merkle root from peers, get the tree of
parts and inventory each part one by one.
as well as enabling
decentralised, distributed git hosting, it will also be applicable to
nostr profiles as well, where you will be able to periodically snapshot
updates to your profile and then all subscribers can quickly learn about
a new batch of updates and get every single one of them.
this is the most exciting thing in my opinion, because it means that
user data can be easily gathered for followers, and stuff like being
able to enable paid relays to fully sync their users' subscriptions
proactively.