Akasha Wants to Put Social Media on the Ethereum Blockchain
There’s been a lot of focus on cryptocurrency social media platforms lately. Now, a new application is coming to the market called Akasha, which aims to launch its alpha release this month. Centralized Social Media Soon to Be a Memory. The past few months have had quite a bit of news concerning platforms like Steemit, Synereo and the Yours Network. A new....
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Censorship has plagued social media platforms for several years, and AKASHA wants to put an end to this scenario. This “next-generation” social media network is powered by the Ethereum world computer and the Inter-Planetary File System (IPFS). Can AKASHA Remove Censorship From Social Media? That will be the main question to answer in the next few years.....
Akasha, a next-generation social media network powered by Ethereum and the InterPlanetary File System, was unveiled on May 3 ‒ World Press Freedom Day. The signups for the alpha release are open. The project is the brainchild of Mihai Alisie, cofounder ofBitcoin Magazine. The Akasha, a Sanskrit word, is the unseen medium that pervades the universe and, in Eastern religions and spiritual traditions, serves as a substrate for the “Akashic Records” ‒ a permanent repository embedded in the fabric of space-time for all the information that is ever produced in the universe. Alisie’s project....
A few weeks ago Bitcoin Magazine published a report on the launch of AKASHA, a blockchain-based social network built on top of Ethereum and IPFS (the InterPlanetary File System). As a followup to the previous report, AKASHA CEO Mihai Alisie spoke to Bitcoin Magazine and said that the idea behind creating a blockchain-based social network came to him and his team as they were looking for ways to use existing technologies such as Ethereum and IPFS to solve bigger problems. The team eventually decided to select the issue of internet censorship as the problem to tackle, and the best way to....
While critics have long taken aim at ethereum for a lack of production projects, a new wave of decentralized applications (or 'dapps') is making notable progress. Over the last few months, a number of long-anticipated ethereum projects have entered alpha and beta, including uPort, which aims to hand users more control of their online identity, and Akasha, a social media app that's been two years in the making. And some brand new applications have emerged, too. Aragon, for example, debuted last Friday with the goal of helping anyone launch their own DAO (an autonomous, blockchain-based....
The AKASHA Project hopes to deliver an Internet where privacy and freedom of expression are embedded into the code, using the Ethereum and the Inter-Planetary File System (IPFS). Mihai Alisie, founder and CEO of AKASHA, recently celebrated World Press Freedom Day by inviting people to sign up for its alpha release, according to his blog. Alisie, who also served as co-founder of the Ethereum project in late 2013, noted he has dreamed about how Ethereum could solve what he views as civilization’s biggest problems. In 2015, he realized Ethereum was close to creating the missing puzzle piece....