With the fall of The Pirate Bay, I'm taking it upon myself to reboot the FTC portal to BlockchainLINK
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FTC
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Use UFO or FTC or Fed. Doesn’t really matter in my opinion. This whole thing is coin agnostic anyway but we may as well use an established coin to test with… The idea is that in the end you can use whatever crypto you have on hand.
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So even abandoned coins are unhappy. Do we need to fork yet another coin for this?
nah.
In order to stop it they need to do this:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bitcoin.devel/1996
In order to do that they need a developer, willing to do it, to institute necessary changes and then propagate from there. Last one they had that did, I believe, the anonymizing feature where it mixes from the wallet, was promised community funds and then bilked. So fat chance someone taking another shot at that. Then there’s getting the community on board… and the people with the still prominent pools for it, as few as there are still mining, look at this as a sort of “hail mary”, “at least it can be used for something”.
After all, since companies like coinpayments.net didn’t opt to add it to their list of coins, stuff like “Pay w/Fedoracoin” popped up to fill the gap, but no one used it so they left the game entirely. So if you have a crypto, that’s not intended for commerce solutions, can’t hold it’s value, what good is it? What utility can be brought to it?
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Good points :)
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Now all we need a return SX address for tipping and we have a content and payment disribution system with no server overheads. Make it much less scary and this is an exciting concept. :)
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https://torrentfreak.com/how-the-pirate-bay-plans-to-beat-censorship-for-good-140105/
However, there’s a much bigger project in the pipeline, one that will make The Pirate Bay and other sites more resilient than ever before. Instead of bypassing external censors, the new tool will create its own P2P network through which sites can be accessed without restrictions.
“The goal is to create a browser-like client to circumvent censorship, including domain blocking, domain confiscation, IP-blocking. This will be accomplished by sharing all of a site’s indexed data as P2P downloadable packages, that are then browsed/rendered locally,†a Pirate Bay insider explains.
Another important change is that the new software will not use standard domain names. Instead, it will use its own fake DNS system that will link the site’s name to a unique and verified public key. For example, within the application bt://mysite.p2p/ will load 929548249111abadfjab29347282374.p2p.
So I think we should have a deep look at how PB is trying to do this… My thoughts are broader and I hope to achieve a full stack solution to legitimise the network.
To me, this looks like PB is trying to maintain the current status quo. I think it’s a bad idea and really does nothing for the torrent networks legitimacy.
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Has anyone suggested a partnership to them?
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Has anyone suggested a partnership to them?
I doubt they will listen to us.
I want to do something far grander and broader then what they’re envisioning.
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I only suggest it because they have a wider community that we could benefit from. Plus, if it stops the PB from ever going down again, that’s a win win for all isn’t it?
Best of luck in your endeavors though… its well above my level of technical understanding!
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Link will be back and so will FLUX. Reality kept getting in the way.
I’ll work with anyone who wants to kick this off.
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Done and done.
So blow my mind. What could we use Flux for?
How do Link and Flux compliment each other?
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Flux destroys the entry barrier for people who want to participate in trustless exchange. I have to clean it up, but it would use the discarded (below diff) shares as a way to guarantee exchanges are at the correct ratios (for example FTC:BTC). This means it doesn’t matter if you have a small computer or a large machine. 4:1 is the same as 4000:1000. Everyone can participate.
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Having read back up the forum post, I think we should aim to trial the technology in a dead coin, and then implement it into FTC as soon as is practicable. I don’t see an issue with illegality or the potential misuse of such a system; the fundamental implications of censorship are too important to ignore. The opportunities you guys are talking about and working on will be core freedoms if the world goes ‘tits up’, and I’d like to think that will give FTC more value than any other coin out there. Kudos to you all. Lets make it happen!
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Gimme something juicy to post on twitter please >:D
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Ahh flux was shapeshift but built into the coin right?
Is this something that will require a fork of the client or is something that doesn’t need embedding into the ftc code?
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Hopefully it will only require adding a notification and some buttons.
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So flux is just something at a GUI level?
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No it does have some work, but it’s at the miner level so could be any coin.
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Well did you want to add ufo to the list? I’d like to see both link and flux running in ftc and ufo if possible.
