Descryer - The decentralized blogging platform.

Introduction

From the heady days of 2009 comes Satoshi Nakamoto with the original Bitcoin Whitepaper. The genesis, or first, block contains the headline from the Financial Times, "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks." Just over ten years later our economic system has continued to debase its currency through opening unlimited US Federal Reserve financial backing.

Yet this time Decentralized Finance (DeFI) exists to try to provide an offramp to avoid this excess. The author of this project has followed and supported Cryptocurrency since sometime in 2013. Alas, he sold his $400/Bitcoin (BTC) in 2017 at tidy profit some say. Instead he now learns about DeFI from the top Financial Services (FinServ) blogs in the fledgling industry such as the Defiant. Unfortunately subscribing to them generally requires Fiat, paper money printed by "fiat" or royal edict, and/or has a horrific on-ramp.

As Eric Raymond from "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" fame states, The firt rule of being a Hacker is to solve a problem that you have and solve it once.

1. The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved.
2. No problem should ever have to be solved twice.

Raymond, 2001

Problem Statement

The Author wants to travel the new decentralized world to build an Internet of Trust. To learn about this world he must escape the prison of modern finance with its filthy fat cats of Reserve Banking.

Solution

Build a decentralized blogging platform with a low-friction cryptocurrency on-ramp.

Business Requirements

1. Content
2. Accounting
3. Authentication
4. Authorization
5. Subscriptions
6. Payment

Technical Requirements (Tech Spec)

1. Confidentiality - Confidentiality can come from Public/Private Key Cryptography Infrastructure. (PKI)
2. Integrity - The surest way to ensure something has Integrity in the current environment is through hashing or digital signing such as hash-based message functions.
3. Availability - Availability from Distributed Hash Table (DHT) such as BitTorrent.

Technical Specifications

Core Infrastructure

Interplanetary File System (IPFS), Interplanetary Name System (IPNS), Interplanetary Linked Data (IPLD), and libp2p meet the core infrastructure needs as hosted by FileCoin.

Infrastructure Talks - Enter the Merkle Forest

• Youtube with Juan Benet
• Slides

Platform

Textile.io has created a platform which includes encryption, subscription and accounting.

Platforms Talk

• Textile.io Andrew Hill at 7:53

Payments

Payments need to have several characteristics.

1. Onboard with Fiat if necessary
2. Crypto payments integration with stablecoin
3. Subscription models

Hackathon

HackFS has offered a Hackathon to build new applications, services or tools on FileCoin as sponsored by ETHGlobal and Protocol Labs.

Our goals:

1. Learn how to collaborate in the new decentralized open source world through solving challenges together.
2. Join and meet the community and fellow freedom fighters on the Decentralized Web.
3. Build a working prototype of a hosted subscripton blog.
4. OPTIONAL: Have a payment onramp through blockchain cryptocurrencies such as DAI or other.

Project Management

Public Trello Board

Founder

Gouthum Karadi has been using computers since the Tandy Color Computer 16K and has owned the first Macintosh, built Microsoft's first Extranet and worked at the firm which hosted Google as an 8'x8' cage in Santa Clara, CA. He most recently managed Corporate Cybersecurity for AWS Subsidaries in the Washington DC area. He has walked the spiritual path to surrender everything which he now does with his corporate tech career: All-in on the Decentralized Web.