blockchain browsing -- Goodbye HTTP? Mind-Bottling If True.

[Darren Dirt]

https://bottle.bitdb.network

found via https://twitter.com/themazuma/status/1109920080748523520 ( one of many "actually..." replies to this thread about the future of the internet https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1110063150005551104 )


(see also https://b.bitdb.network/ , https://c.bitdb.network )

"
#Bottle is the next paradigm of the web, Web 5.0 or Blockchain Web

By moving away from HTTP and authoring everything in a Bitcoin native way (using Bitcoin transaction ids and content hashes) we can build a completely self-contained network of documents which can exist forever on the blockchain.

There is no "HTTP". Everything is served from B:// or C://.

- The CSS is from Bitcoin.

- The JavaScript is also from Bitcoin.

- It even dynamically fetches a markdown file from Bitcoin to render.
"


[ the future is ... decentralized? ]

[Thorin]

When http browsers first came on the scene in 1994 (was it 94 or 93 that Lynx came out?  can't remember, I just remember being introduced to it), they were a completely new way of doing things and thus were not replacing an existing way of doing almost the same thing.  Thus, their uptake was pretty quick given the infrastructure at the time.

The blockchain browser described here is replacing an existing way of doing things with a slightly different way of doing things that is only different behind the scenes but will look the same to the average user.  Thus, I expect it won't be picked up beyond early high-tech adopters and will languish on the periphery for years while the IETF and W3C continue to improve the http, https, and html standards which will push http browser developers to make better and better products.

It's neat, I agree, but I don't see it replacing http even in the long term.

[Darren Dirt]

The way most "public" conversations are being more and more controlled by a handful of #BigTech (under the labels of "curating", "trust and safety", "community standards" etc.) AND being inconsistently executed, it's really opening the eyes to a lot of people at what has been lost since the early wild west days of the web, and opening minds and mouths to have conversations about new technologies and ways of keeping that important freedom of expression alive in the digital world.

Of course, yes, early adopters will be the hardcore techies for sure, and Bottle might not be a long term survivor [just the latest one I heard about that when I clicked to look into it seemed to be promising because on the surface it is just a different PROTOCOL than http, so existing pages and code should work as-is etc.) however from what I have seen now seems to be a time like no other, where awareness of problems and *hunger* for solutions is at a peak, and being talked about with optimism and hope and passion is there are a lot of people "unplugging" from mainstream *anything* and willing to put time in to learn new ways of connecting and learning and growing and sharing... and some of them will help make the tools more easily accessible to Grandma Boomer etc.

The curse of "May you live in interesting times..." indeed.

[Lazybones]

I think this is something that blockchain can make better or have a roll in.

However I do not see bitcoin being a good blockchain for this become vastly overshadowed by newer technologies.

Bitcoins core blockchain is held hostage by the mining rig manufactures and is limited by its POW security basically slowing things down. They have added a separate lightning network on top of it to try and solve basic transaction performance issues.

I see a something like etherium or neo serving this kind of application as both where designed with applications in mined and have far superior performance in their core chains. 

[Darren Dirt]

Yeah I chose my title for a reason, sadly the downside to bitcoin being so successful even in the eyes of "normies" is... the normies think blockchain IS bitcoin. Like how some demographics years ago thought facebook WAS the internet

The blockchain concept has opened doors and minds as to what might be possible if things are truly decentralized.
Encouraging to see successful execution like BTC, or, for video, BitChute, or, for X, Y... #freeedom

[Lazybones]

Personally a replacement for the SSL/TLS system in https would be a really good use case for block chains and would get rid of paying this silly middle man that supposedly vouches for you being you.