Again: arguing for the sake of arguing (semantics). Had a bad day or what?
The protocol (never said anything about clients) is officially called BitTorrent, just like Bitcoin is called Bitcoin. I've been using torrents for 20 years, I don't need lecturing.
You also dismissed this post for some strange reason:
I said we need higher upload to create more elaborate decentralized apps (whether it's a forum or Artificial Intelligence to rival the centralized ChatGPT).
Back in 2003 many people didn't even have ADSL, they were stuck in dial-up (even in the US). Therefore it was not a good time to release Bitcoin (even if it was ready).
Nobody "demands" anything, not even Theymos (but he clearly wants a decentralized forum WHEN it becomes feasible!).
Have some patience and don't be such a pessimist.
The protocol (never said anything about clients) is officially called BitTorrent, just like Bitcoin is called Bitcoin. I've been using torrents for 20 years, I don't need lecturing.
You also dismissed this post for some strange reason:
I reckon we can have a decent decentralized forum protocol if FTTH (100 Mbps upload) becomes the baseline.
With ADSL (1 Mbps upload) it's not really possible... ADSL is fine for BTC, that's why Satoshi released it in 2009 (when ADSL was already becoming the norm).
I never said a decentralized forum protocol is feasible right now, don't put words in my mouth.With ADSL (1 Mbps upload) it's not really possible... ADSL is fine for BTC, that's why Satoshi released it in 2009 (when ADSL was already becoming the norm).
I said we need higher upload to create more elaborate decentralized apps (whether it's a forum or Artificial Intelligence to rival the centralized ChatGPT).
Back in 2003 many people didn't even have ADSL, they were stuck in dial-up (even in the US). Therefore it was not a good time to release Bitcoin (even if it was ready).
Nobody "demands" anything, not even Theymos (but he clearly wants a decentralized forum WHEN it becomes feasible!).
Have some patience and don't be such a pessimist.
I'm not giving any semantics, I'm just saying that what you want is not viable at the moment. I didn't discard any message, I just didn't mention something that I didn't consider relevant.
The best we could do now is mirror it in a more friendly country and we lose the security of having one guy you really need to trust (theymos) the mirror back up in a second country would mean at least one other person needs full access to the entire forum since theymos cannot be in two places at the same time.
Also you are still asking theymos to put him or herself at risk from the USA based system since theymos is USA based. Nevermind the second country could turn on you and go after that mirror setup.
Also you are still asking theymos to put him or herself at risk from the USA based system since theymos is USA based. Nevermind the second country could turn on you and go after that mirror setup.
A forum like Bitcointalk is quite demanding in terms of resources. Unfortunately, the best servers for this purpose are in the USA or Europe. Therefore, it is difficult to try to find a mirror outside of these locations that is minimally viable to operate. And between Europe and the USA, perhaps the USA is still the one with the best guarantees.
Japan and South Korea have some good IT infrastructure. But as I said you then need a safe guy ie a Theymos Clone so to speak that could be trusted to run the mirror as it would be an equal to the original. I think the risk that theymos II turns rouge could be just as bad as the risk that the USA government shuts down Bitcointalk I.