Oktahedron

OH004 – Secure Scuttlebutt


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This episode is about Secure Scuttlebutt - a database of unforgeable append-only feeds, optimized for efficient replication for peer to peer protocols.
Scuttlebutt in slang usage means rumor or gossip, deriving from the nautical term for the cask used to serve water (or, later, a water fountain) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttlebutt
A gossip protocol is a style of computer-to-computer communication protocol inspired by the form of gossip seen in social networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_protocol
History of Scuttlebutt with Dominic Tarr https://www.gwenbell.com/dt-interview/
Dominic Tarr http://dominictarr.com/ Twitter @dominictarr
Secure Scuttlebutt consortium https://github.com/ssbc
Peer-to-peer audio publishing and streaming application. Like SoundCloud but decentralized. A mashup of ssb, webtorrent and electron http://ferment.audio
Decentralised git git-ssb https://github.com/clehner/git-ssb
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