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What is the motivation of twister over bitmessage + namecoin. Namecoin is already a decentralized authorization/registration crypto network and bitmessage is a
by quack 13y ago
What is the motivation of twister over bitmessage + namecoin. Namecoin is already a decentralized authorization/registration crypto network and bitmessage is a POW based P2P messaging system. The use of DHT seems novel, and it may be interesting to see if the bitmessage community had a reason not to use it.
I'm not trying to attack the idea. I just want to understand what novel work is being done here. Cheers.
- salient 13y agoFor starters, I'd probably use this over Bitmessage for the easier to use UI alone. This one also seems to be a little more focused on public messages, too. It looks like a fully decentralized version of Twitter, which could be more appealing to some people.
- johnchristopher 13y ago>What is the motivation of twister over bitmessage + namecoin. Bitmessage is to mail what twister is to twitter ?
- quack 13y agoBitmessage is for any messaging system. You can broadcast (twitter), send private message (email), or start a channel (IRC). The key in bitmessage is that to send a message you have to do a POW according to the size of the message you are sending. Even then you still have massive data bloat problems, which I dont see DHT alone solving.
- kaoD 13y agoReading Bitmessage broadcasts requires following the user, so you can't see replies if you're not subscribed to the replying user. Twister feels more like Twitter, including searching, hashtags, etc. Though I guess you could leverage BM's protocol and infrastructure to do that too (broadcasts are public you'd just have to filter the noise).
- johnchristopher 13y agoThe few times I installed bitmessage to see what it looked like it escaped me I could actually broadcast messages à la twitter. Might check out that part of the package in the coming future. Thanks for pointing it out.