Johan Pouwelse

Academic Torrents – Making 27TB of research data available https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17744150

Tribler is mentioned! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17744575

Can US goverment force crypto sabotage? [U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17785616)

[Introduction to Augur, an open-source, decentralized betting marketplace](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17799346) ``` "Misplaced hype.'Today, Augur had 30 active users and 123 transactions in the last 24 hours. The market cap is roughly $269.2...

Mainstream press, indepth discussion on price stability. [BBC - search for a more stable cryptocurrency]( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45245149)

[Centralized Wins. Decentralized Loses.](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17839970). Very easy reading for non-tech people. "_benefits_" of central: "controlable, walled gardenable,defensible, brandable auditable, copyright checkable, GDPRable..." _Vital lesson : USENET was killed by spam!_ Filtering,...

Another quote from [Juan Bennet from FileCoin in The Guardian](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17941941). These early projects do not have killer features and focus on the raw transport mechanisms. Higher level features are lacking...

[Hedra PR machine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvyTB8zHWdA&feature=youtu.be&t=1338) is going decent. They originated from Swirlds and got the early patent in this hashgraph field. They are not as old as our Trustchain work, but are...

### 2024 update - projects similar to Tribler Insight how they are making progress, very subjectively! Name | description ------------ | ------------- IPFS (part I) | Their latest [update](https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-12-21-ipfs-in-2021/) shows...

Morning, All paths lead to Arvid version 1.2.13.. Thnx for fixing the tunneltest after being broken/unused for so long! Lot of input to process for roadmap development. Especially the DHT...