BitMessage: A Model For A New Web 2.0?
BitMessage: A Model For A New Web 2.0? Over the past twenty years, the democratization of cryptographic technology has brought us the potential for an unprecedented level of privacy, giving the common man the ability to browse documents, have conversations, and now, with Bitcoin, send money to people around the world without even the most powerful....
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Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers, which also supports decentralized mailing lists (DML, or "chans."). The concept for Bitmessage was conceived by software developer Jonathan Warren, who based its design on Bitcoin. The open source Bitmessage software was released in November 2012 under the MIT license. There is also a Bitmessage Mail Gateway at bitmessage.ch, but it's not accepting new user registrations at the moment. Also read: Tox: Encrypted Skype Replacement Will Possibly Integrate Bitcoin. Bitmessage....
We've seen the impact that Bitcoin can have on the future of payments. But money is not the only area that the movement is influencing. Bitmessage is a protocol that implements some of the ideas of Bitcoin into communications. Given the pressure on technology companies to cooperate with governments regarding services like email, those looking for a private way to communicate could find Bitmessage's concept quite interesting. We live in a time where cloud computing has become the norm for our digital services. That means that a lot of our information is actually stored in data centers....
Today, reports of spam transactions containing one Satoshi and zero fee have been sprouting like daisies. A pair of Bitcoin addresses have been used by would-be hackers to send over 1,000 spam transactions to many more thousands of receiving Bitcoin addresses. The spam transaction encourages users to visit the site BitMessageS.org (intentionally meant to be confused with BitMessage.org) where they are then prompted for their Blockchain.info wallet identifier. Within hours, the Bitcoin community has already taken steps to mitigate the potential damage by this interesting phishing attempt.....
Bitmarkets is s a free and open source protocol and example client for a decentralized marketplace which operates over the Tor network and uses Bitcoin as its currency and Bitmessage as its communications network. Mutual security deposits between buyer and seller on individual transactions are used to ensure incentives are aligned for completing the transaction without the need for either reputation systems or trusted 3rd parties. The urgent importance of distributed and decentralized marketplaces, without central servers that can be shut down by the authorities, has been emphasized as a....
Bitcoin’s underlying blockchain technology is a cause of many amazing technological breakthroughs, most of which we have yet to discover. But while the search for the “next big thing” is underway, several companies have tried their hand at combining Bitcoin and social messaging. However, most of these platforms are built on top of pre-existing platforms.....