Call it synchronicity, a confluence of decentralised thinking, or longstanding issues coming to a head, but just as @dirvine was chatting to the team this week about protection against Sybil attacks, a post by @sundata87 popped up alerting us to Vitalik Buterin’s thoughts on the topic. David’s initial response, for those...
After a successful DialNet we’re looking to test our reworked payment process. Now instead of badly guesstimating costs on the network, we ask each and every node how much they’d like and pay that. (This can be tweaked to avoid bad actors easily enough). As such, every node will receive rewards for PUTs directly! (Note: you...
The DialNet testnet, launched this morning, contains some improvements to the issue of dialling unroutable peers - the one that was causing some nodes to remain chunkless. We have what we believe to be a fix in place now which we want to test out. It will still need some tweaking for performance, but we want to try it in the...
Over the past weeks we have seen some nodes that do not receive records. On further inspection, it seemed like peers of such nodes didn’t add them to their routing table. In essence this means those nodes aren’t seen as part of the network, but function like clients. When a new node connects to its peers, those peers have to...
We continue to refine features ready for the next testnet, notably introducing pay-per-chunk and UTXO. Paying per chunk means treating each chunk individually rather than the client bundling them into a merkle-tree and asking nodes for a quote on that file. Now clients query each node in the close group for the price of storing...
An announcement post has been made a week ago btw...
Thanks to all of you who have mucked in with testing ThePriceIsRightNet. It really is a massive help, and once again you’ve uncovered some unexpected issues. Indeed, this one has been a bit of a curate’s egg - good in parts. Starting with the good, all our nodes are still alive with no serious CPU or memory issues. As...
“ What's surprising to researchers is that the settlement of Pingliangtai shows little evidence of social hierarchy. Its houses were uniformly small and show no signs of social stratification or significant inequality amongst the population. Excavations at the town's cemetery likewise found no evidence of a social hierarchy in...
Try out and help test anew p2p internet......
It’s getting a bit repetitive, but once again this week we can report that the NodeDiscoveryNet testnet is still up and running. A bit rough round the edges and in need of refinement, sure, but the foundations are feeling very solid. This stability is no longer a surprise, but after many years of excitement as we’ve...
Now live, come and try Safe Network out and help test it at the same time....
One of the changes we’re working through this week concerns the updated version of libp2p, which brings some welcome improvements to AutoNAT - detecting and enabling nodes that are behind a firewall or router to join. We will soon be able to distinguish between global and private IP addresses, which was an issue before....
From a technical standpoint, the protocol (ActivityPud) underlying Lemmy and Kbin has security and performance faults that make it inefficient. It's a great step towards decentralization but there is another alternative that I want to raise awareness of: Nostr....
Purism, a company known for doing privacy-focused smartphones and fediverse related services, argues that the advancements of machine learning supports a further push for decentralization.
