When they ban bitcoin will we have a core update that stops it from working?
#asknostr
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Yes. But not until
- bitching about it on mailing lists
- taking to social media
- claiming people are going to hell
- filing a CVE record
the real problem arises when nations and ISPs block port 8333, but then we pivot to other methods such as TOR.
only if y'all don't help us out to get decentralised Git hosting off the ground. Some people have shown great prejudice against serious efforts to make it more practical than IPFS's slow and clunky protocol. Or linking it to Nostr.
Yes I think there is a bounty out for that, unfortunately I’m likely not capable enough to build it
I am building much of the basis of a decentrlalised GitHub with the help of nostr:nprofile1qqs9njktmqadt322myw6eag6f8qxuzl0wv9vpe7zxkn0d73fhy3s7qspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ukzcnvv5hx7un89uq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd4hk6tcpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue04zx3n9 and some others. We are building it to plug into a smart contract storage backend. We want to be inclusive and unopinionated about how the core data, the profiles and the catalogs of user posts, are stored, and our first implementation will use a blockchain. It is being funded by said chain, and once we complete the task for them it should be easy to build out a focused form of it to handle and replicate Git repositories and it is actually the right design to put that data on a byzantine tolerant distributed database, indeed a single organisation can scale their presence with a Paxos or RAFT or other centralised-distributed database (cloud, right?). Proof of Stake blockchains are really a kind of corporate federation, and they mainly are based on Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (pBFT) - which is pretty much the dominant form of consensus. They can be run by a centralised organisation easily to provide massive parallel read access to the data they store. It could just as easily be a bitcoin sidechain or even RGB non-chain cellular automata replication system.
Building something that can plug into those things has not been done yet, and it is the big obstacle between us and a decentralised Github.