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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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Project Solid - can the web be re-decentralised? | P2P Foundation

Solid, from social linked data, is a proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized social applications based on Linked Data principles.
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Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies: a regulatory nightmare? | P2P Foundation

Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies: a regulatory nightmare? | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
  This post from the P2Pvalue blog by Florian Glatz is based on an article by Primavera de Filippi posted on Internet Policy Review – read the full article here Today we want to point you to one of the many studies we are conducting at P2PValue, regarding the different applications of peer-to-peer technology in today’s networked information …
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Free Commons-Based Peer Production Posters No. 3

Free Commons-Based Peer Production Posters No. 3 | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
The last in the series of free posters about Commons-Based Peer Production produced by P2Pvalue  & designed by Laura Recio shows some of the crazy things we can do with collaborative communities.
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The Blockchain: A Promising New Infrastructure for Online Commons | P2P Foundation

The Blockchain: A Promising New Infrastructure for Online Commons | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Behind the superficial public discussions about Bitcoin you’ll discover a software breakthrough that could change the future of commoning on open networks
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Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto reconnects with P2P Foundation after five years

Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto reconnects with P2P Foundation after five years | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Shortly after, TechCrunch had a piece about it.  I also forwarded on my responses to Raphael Satter, a journalist for The Associated Press who also got in touch via twitter.  The story is now all over the place.  Overnight the story made it on to Forbes and The Guardian, and this morning Paul Vigna from The Wall Street Journal got in touch has just post this up.  A quick google news search also brought up articles in The Evening StandardThe International Business TimesPCWorldHere is the CityThe DomainsFinextraThe Drum and more.

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HORNET - Onion routing at network level to speed up and secure anonymous communications | P2P Foundation

HORNET - Onion routing at network level to speed up and secure anonymous communications | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
This is a paper proposing improvements to onion routing, which anonymises data traffic and communications on the internet. The proposal is to put the routing protocol at network level, providing higher speed transmission and adding encryption features. HORNET: High-speed Onion Routing at the Network Layer In this paper, we address the question of “what minimal …
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21 Technologies That Will Decentralize the World | P2P Foundation

21 Technologies That Will Decentralize the World | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Source: shareable.net. Nice overview by Nina Misuraca Ignaczak of the rapidly maturing technologies which are set to move power out of the hands of centralised organisations and help usher in a new world of resilient distributed networks. Featuring OpenGarden, whose FireChat iPhone app is proving immensely popular, even outstripping Facebook and Twitter in daily download …
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The Blockchain: A Promising New Infrastructure for Online Commons | P2P Foundation

The Blockchain: A Promising New Infrastructure for Online Commons | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Bitcoin has taken quite a beating for its libertarian design biases, price volatility due to speculation, and the questionable practices of some currency-exchange firms.  But whatever the real or perceived flaws of Bitcoin, relatively little attention has been paid to its “engine,” known as “distributed ledger” or “blockchain” technology.  Move beyond the superficial public discussions about Bitcoin, and you’ll discover a software breakthrough that could be of enormous importance to the future of commoning on open network platforms.

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P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Re-decentralizing the internet: pieces of the puzzle for a real peer-to-peer net start to come together

P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Re-decentralizing the internet: pieces of the puzzle for a real peer-to-peer net start to come together | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Redecentralize.org is an effort to find and promote projects that will help bring the internet back into its ‘native’ state, which is that of a decentralized, distributed network dominated by its users, not by central servers or grotesquely overgrown data silos.

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