Links, Resources and Related Projects
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Articles and Links
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- [Media Websites Battle Faltering Ad Revenue and Traffic](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/business/media-websites-battle-falteringad-revenue-and-traffic.html?_r=0)
- [Startup Legion M Launches Crowdfunded Studio That Lets Fans Buy Piece of Company](http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/legion-m-crowdfunded-studio-jobs-act-1201726003/)
- [Changetip embraces decentralization with new wallet - will support Lightning Network in the future](http://coinjournal.net/changetip-embraces-decentralization-with-new-bitcoin-wallet/)
- [Apple: A Message to Our Customers (a letter by Apple about not giving into the FBI to help them decrypt their phones)](http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/)
- [Datt: The next step in social networks? (video by Chris)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjMIeio_qfY)
- [The Ad Blocking Wars - NYTimes](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/opinion/sunday/the-ad-blocking-wars.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=0)
- [A Decentralized Web Site Anchored in the Blockchain - Andrew Barisser](https://medium.com/@abarisser/a-decentralized-web-site-anchored-in-the-blockchain-14b91cef0e4c)
- [People In Silicon Valley Don't Click On Ads](https://medium.com/@robleathern/people-in-silicon-valley-don-t-click-on-ads-9d2eed1c74af)
- [Ello and consumer friendly business models (argues Ello's business model can't work because it charges money)](https://stratechery.com/2014/ello-consumer-friendly-business-models/)
- [SatoshiPay Launches Bitcoin Nanopayment Network for Online Content](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/satoshipay-launches-bitcoin-nanopayment-network-for-online-content-1454530389)
- [OpenBazaar in Depth: Interview with COO Sam Patterson](http://bitcoinist.net/openbazaar-in-depth-interview-with-coo-sam-patterson/)
- [Brave, Brenden Eich's new startup - it will include a bitcoin wallet with bitcoin micropayments](http://fusion.net/story/258828/brave-browser-business-model/)
- [Curating Content through Prediction Markets and Network Tokens](http://www.philosophyofbitcoin.com/2014/04/curating-content-through-prediction.html)
- [IPFS - why I'm not yet on the bandwagon](https://medium.com/@bedeho/ipfs-why-i-m-not-yet-on-the-bandwagon-869508051e66)
- [The former CEO of Mozilla is launching a web browser that blocks all ads by default](http://www.businessinsider.com/former-mozilla-ceo-brendan-eich-launches-ad-blocking-web-browser-brave-2016-1?op=1)
- [Kevin Rose on what Digg would be today - would use cryptocurrency](https://twitter.com/kevinrose/status/451531078650429440)
- [User banned from ChangeTip for living in Libya](https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-africoin-report-changetip-isnt-global-anymore)
- [Decentralising Facebook with Blockchains and Userfeeds.](https://medium.com/@maciejolpinski/decentralising-facebook-with-blockchain-and-userfeeds-fcd25e4de097)
- [YouTube's Top Style and Beauty Vloggers Earn as Much as $40k a Month](http://www.racked.com/2015/4/15/8421393/youtube-star-earnings-beauty-bloggers)
- [ChangeTip forced to blog users in Russia](http://forklog.net/changetip-has-blocked-account-of-forklog-magazine-due-to-us-sanctions-against-russia/)
- [Spotify but for the Titanic: A Proposal for the Future of News and Publishing](https://medium.com/message/spotify-but-for-the-titanic-a-proposal-for-the-future-of-news-and-publishing-40c41fbebe7b)
- [Social media censorship in Bangladesh hints at long-term problems for publishers](http://www.cjr.org/analysis/bangladesh_social_media.php)
- [Soulseek banned from PayPal after 14 years](https://torrentfreak.com/paypal-bans-file-sharing-classic-soulseek-after-14-years-151205/)
- [The ‘Facebook of Latin America’ Taringa! Just Paid $76,000 in Bitcoin to its Users](https://news.bitcoin.com/facebook-latin-america-taringa-just-paid-76000-bitcoin-users/)
- [Zapchain Growth Proves Bitcoin Tipping Viable Social Media Model](https://news.bitcoin.com/zapchain-growth-proves-bitcoin-tipping-viable-social-media-model/)
- [Phuc Dat Bich: Man posts passport to Facebook to prove his name is real](http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/mad-mad-world/Phuc-Dat-Bich-Man-posts-passport-to-Facebook-to-prove-his-name-is-real/articleshow/49860844.cms)
- [Companies Target Journalists With Ads on Facebook](http://www.wsj.com/articles/companies-target-journalists-with-ads-on-facebook-1447664403)
- [Facebook and the Media Have an Increasingly Landlord-Tenant Style Relationship](http://fortune.com/2015/11/09/facebook-media/)
- [Chris Dixon: Lessons from the PC gaming industry](https://medium.com/@cdixon/lessons-from-the-pc-video-game-industry-3350bb7713de)
- [How to use Rust with Node when performance matters](https://blog.risingstack.com/how-to-use-rust-with-node-when-performance-matters/)
- ['Freebooters' Are Stealing Videos from YouTube and Reposting Them to Facebook](http://motherboard.vice.com/read/freebooters-are-stealing-videos-from-youtube-and-reposting-them-to-facebook?utm_source=mbtwitter)
- [Death by a thousand likes: How Facebook and Twitter are killing the open web](http://qz.com/545048/death-by-a-thousand-likes-how-facebook-and-twitter-are-killing-the-open-web/)
- [One Cash: With One Cash, Tip $1 To People You Love, Or Make It Rain](http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/12/with-one-cash-tip-1-to-people-you-love-or-make-it-rain/)
- [The 12 Factor App - great info on how to build software that works well as a service](http://12factor.net/)
- [Heroku: 10 habits of a happy node hacker - useful tips for managing a node project from Heroku](http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/11/10/node-habits-2016)
- [The Netflix stack - interesting look at a service that has to scale enormously](http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/11/9/a-360-degree-view-of-the-entire-netflix-stack.html)
- [How Facebook is stealing billions of views - relevant to the issue of people stealing others' work](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7tA3NNKF0Q&feature=youtu.be)
- [Mine wants to identify every image on the internet. (uses the blockchain - perhaps similar tech could be used to classify content on datt)](http://www.mine.nyc/)
- [EigenTrust++: Attack Resilient Trust Management (PDF) (also recommended by Greg Slepak)](http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~lingliu/papers/2012/XinxinFan-EigenTrust++.pdf)
- [A pseudonymous trust system for a decentralized anonymous marketplace (Greg Slepak proposes that we use this as a way to algorithmically rank posts according to a computed trust value)](https://gist.github.com/dionyziz/e3b296861175e0ebea4b)
- [Please stop writing secure messaging tools. (tldr: Also write other kinds of secure tools)](http://dymaxion.org/essays/pleasestop.html)
- [Chris Dixon tweets about r/bitcoin -> r/btc](https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/663216232888410112)
- [Brian of Coinbase suggesting everyone on r/bitcoin migrate to r/btc because of censorship on r/bitcoin](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3rufww/what_do_people_think_about_unsubscribing_from/) - [see also his tweet](https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/662817100969308160)
- [Sam Altman: Startup Playbook](http://playbook.samaltman.com/)
- [LBRY: https://news.bitcoin.com/lbry-decentralized-sharing-platform/](https://news.bitcoin.com/lbry-decentralized-sharing-platform/)
- [up2pp:// - The “http://” of Peer to Peer networking needs to exist](https://medium.com/@gubatron/up2pp-the-http-of-peer-to-peer-networking-needs-to-exist-da0332e8b495#.wnjk5g1ay)
- [So, Tsu Me: Why Facebook Is Terrified of This Virtually Unknown Competitor and What It Could Mean For the Future of the Internet](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-fagin/so-tsu-me-why-facebook-is_b_8328524.html)
- [Zype Raises $1.6M To Help Publishers Build Their Video Business](http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/27/zype-seed-funding/)
- [Medium's tech stack (based on node.js](https://medium.com/medium-eng/the-stack-that-helped-medium-drive-2-6-millennia-of-reading-time-e56801f7c492#.dzs8bttfk)
- [IPFS introduction by example](http://whatdoesthequantsay.com/2015/09/13/ipfs-introduction-by-example/)
- [Decentralized Identity and Content Attribution: We Need a Specification](http://continuations.com/post/131886701965/decentralized-identity-and-content-attribution-we)
_ [Youtube Red: $10/mo for no ads](http://gizmodo.com/youtube-really-wants-you-to-pay-for-youtube-1737829631)
- [How society will be transformed by cryptoeconomics](https://medium.com/@noahthorp/how-society-will-be-transformed-by-crypto-economics-b02b6765ca8c#.y3q60suvx)
- [What the Flux!? Let's Redux](https://blog.andyet.com/2015/08/06/what-the-flux-lets-redux)
- [The viability of js frameworks on mobile](https://joreteg.com/blog/viability-of-js-frameworks-on-mobile)
- [Why Twitter's Dying (And What You Can Learn From It)](https://medium.com/bad-words/why-twitter-s-dying-and-what-you-can-learn-from-it-9ed233e37974)
- [How is the NSA breaking so much crypto?](https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/haldermanheninger/how-is-nsa-breaking-so-much-crypto/)
- [Hi, We're Stem: Imagine a world where you, as a creator, can consistently get paid for your work with clarity.](https://medium.com/@stem/hi-we-re-stem-63a05d637321)
- [Taking Medium To The Next Level - Medium proposes to make sure money flows back to content creators](https://medium.com/the-story/taking-medium-to-the-next-level-cb7f223fad86)
- [Decentralized reputation in OpenBazaar](https://blog.openbazaar.org/decentralized-reputation-in-openbazaar/)
- [Freestart collisions for sha-1 - means a real collision is around the corner. We use sha-256 for hashes, and so does bitcoin, however we do use git, whish uses sha-1](https://sites.google.com/site/itstheshappening/)
- [Clef's open-source employee handbook focused on inclusion](https://github.com/clef/handbook)
- [Clef: Our work to raise the baseline for inclusive policies at early stage companies](https://medium.com/two-factor-authenticity/open-sourcing-the-clef-handbook-edd658e4ce5e)
- [reddit is working on an entirely new front-page algorithm](http://motherboard.vice.com/read/reddit-admits-its-front-page-is-broken-is-working-on-an-entirely-new-algorithm)
- [Inside reddit's plan to recover from its epic meltdown](http://www.wired.com/2015/10/reddit-survived-meltdown-can-fix/)
- [The YC application broken down and translated](https://medium.com/@zreitano/the-yc-application-broken-down-and-translated-e4c0f5235081)
- [VICE: We're replacing comments with something better](http://motherboard.vice.com/read/im-on-twitter-too)
- [No Comments Allowed on Reddit’s New News Site ‘Upvoted’](http://www.wired.com/2015/10/no-comments-allowed-reddits-new-news-site-upvoted/?mbid=social_fb)
- [402: Payment Required](https://medium.com/@humphd/402-payment-required-95bc72f06fcd)
- [First, let's get rid of all the bosses. (An article about holocracy at Zappos)](http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122965/can-billion-dollar-corporation-zappos-be-self-organized)
- [WE Collective (a non-profit reddit competitor) (video)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPtS4Nffqho&feature=youtu.be)
- [A protocol for microtransactions (PDF) (Strawpay)](https://www.strawpay.com/docs/stroem-payment-system.pdf)
- [Japan’s Largest Q&A Platform OKWave Adds Bitcoin Services (OKWave)](https://news.bitcoin.com/japans-largest-qa-platform-okwave-adds-bitcoin-services/)
- [Blendle: A radical experiment with micropayments in journalism, 365 days later](https://medium.com/on-blendle/blendle-a-radical-experiment-with-micropayments-in-journalism-365-days-later-f3b799022edc)
- [Business Insider, Vox, BuzzFeed, Medium: What’s Driving Digital Media’s New Investment Craze](http://www.thewrap.com/business-insider-vox-buzzfeed-medium-whats-driving-digital-medias-new-investment-craze/)
- [Is TLS fast enough yet? (tldr: yes)](https://istlsfastyet.com/)
- ["Apple's commitment to your privacy"](http://www.apple.com/privacy/) - [HN discussion](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10296732)
- [Medium raises $57 million to better connect content and conversation](https://medium.com/@andydoyle/medium-s-new-funding-round-48437c641e06)
- [reddit users on their grievances about reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/Upvoted/comments/3jn7e9/ask_an_admin_vol_6_on_amageddon_blackout_2015_etc/cuqnuyo)
- [Will there be a distributed HTTP?](https://www.mnot.net/blog/2015/08/18/distributed_http?imm_mid=0d7194&cmp=em-web-na-na-newsltr_20150819) - [HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10159873)
- [Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment on a Corporate Social Network (PDF)](http://www.tdcommons.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1092&context=dpubs_series)
- [The internet's own Magna Carta](http://www.renderingwithstyle.com/post/127493183563/the-internets-own-magna-carta)
- [Locking the Web Open - a call for a distributed web](http://brewster.kahle.org/2015/08/11/locking-the-web-open-a-call-for-a-distributed-web-2/)
- ["Projects and Companies" by Sam Altman](http://blog.samaltman.com/projects-and-companies)
- [The WeChat wallet](https://a16z.com/2015/08/06/wechat-china-mobile-first/)
- [It's time to build the private web - need encryption by default](http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/staff-editorials/13919/private-web-encryption-is-a-basic-human-right/)
- [Meta on hardforking - mods censors a post about Bitcoin XT](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3gdad5/meta_on_hardforking_if_bitcoin_is_so_vulnerable/)
- [Mutually Assured Content](http://www.theawl.com/2015/07/in-no-charts)
- [Don't display negative karma](http://www.raphkoster.com/2009/10/07/building-web-reputation-systems-the-blog-the-dollhouse-mafia-or-dont-display-negative-karma/)
- [Rating Systems - Christopher Allen](http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2005/12/collective_choi.html)
- [Dunbar, Altruistic Punishment, and Meta-Moderation - Christopher Allen](http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2005/03/dunbar_altruist.html)
- [The Web We Have to Save](https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426)
- [The Cryptographic Doom Principle - you should always encrypt then mac - validate mac before decrypting data](http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/the-cryptographic-doom-principle/)
- [Web RTC STUN and TURN](http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webrtc/infrastructure/)
- [valme: general business model ideas](https://valme.io/c/journal/c_prompt/f5qqs/an-open-letter-to-steve-huffman-reddits-new-ceo-with-an-offer-to-exchange-values)
- [valme: related to downvoting](http://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/nqqqs/why-does-it-cost-1-karma-to-upvote-but-2-to-downvote)
- [valme: related to allowing mods to change the price of content](http://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/yqqqs/whats-a-sponsored-account)
- [valme: related to different transaction fees for different actions](http://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/7mqqs/valme-transaction-costs)
- [valme: related to flagging/downvote brigades](http://valme.io/c/gettingstarted/faq/5qqqs/whats-a-modqueue-what-are-moderators-mods)
- [RedHat stance on software patents](http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html)
- [UX Methods & Design](http://uxdesign.cc/ux-methods-deliverables/) - UX/UI design cheatsheet

Related projects
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- [OpenBazaar - open-source, decentralized marketplace](https://openbazaar.org/) - Also [OB1](http://ob1.io/), the First Company on OpenBazaar
- [SpaceTimeBubble - Mats Henricson](https://github.com/matshenricson/xyztr)
- [PopChest - bitcoin micropayments for video](https://video.popchest.com/)
- [DEVCON1: Decentralized reddit - Connor Keenan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivkBxkSTCMQ)
- [Blockai - keep track of authorship of content on the blockchain](https://blockai.com/)
- [Codemill: A Marketplace for Pull Requests](http://codemill.io/)
- [Mediachain: a distributed metadata protocol (could be used by Datt, and mentions Datt in the article)](https://medium.com/mine-labs/mediachain-483f49cbe37a)
- [Dat - share and sync data instantly. Open-source, decentralized. Plus, it's called "dat"](http://dat-data.com/)
- [BigchainDB - a blockchain database](https://www.bigchaindb.com/)
- [PeerTweet - node.js twitter using DHTs for each person's stream](https://github.com/lmatteis/peer-tweet)
- [Nuzzle - turns your twitter feed into a reddit-like feed](http://nuzzel.com/)
- [SatoshiPay](https://satoshipay.io/)
- [WebTorrent](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent) - Torrent, for HTML5
- [Enspiral - a virtual and physical network of companies and professionals brought together by a set of shared values and a passion for positive social impact.](http://www.enspiral.com/faq/)
- [BlockAI - is a platform to give people who create digital assets a way to claim ownership of them by publishing to the blockchain, turning them into monetizable assets.](http://www.blockai.com/)
- [Aetheral Research is a censorship resitant forums platform](http://aetheral.im/)
- [Encrypt All The Things - an initiative to encrypt all the web with SSL](https://encryptallthethings.net/)
- [RDOV - A business model for sustainable R&D of open source projects.](http://rdov.co/)
- [Brave is a new web browser from Brendan Eich that blocks ads by default](https://brave.com/)
- [Noisecrypt - a decentralized social media application with end-to-end encryption](https://github.com/mschultheiss/Noisecrypt)
- [grasswire - decentralized, crowdsourced news network](https://grasswire.com/)
- [eth-tweet - decentralized twitter based on ethereum](https://github.com/yep/eth-tweet)
- [CrowdJury - decentralized justice](http://crowdjury.org/en/)
- [Synero - decentralized social media with integrated payments using their own coin](http://www.synereo.com/)
- [Fabriq - a decentralized reddit based on Ethereum](https://github.com/ckeenan/fabriq) - [see also Chris Keenan's tweet](https://twitter.com/j32804/status/664811118028849152)
- [LBRY: Combining bittorrent and a new cryptocurrency for sharing media and being paid](http://lbry.io/)
- [Credence is a practical distributed reputation system, designed to counteract content pollution in peer-to-peer filesharing systems.](http://credence-p2p.org/)
- [Tsu: social network that shares ad revenue with creators](http://www.tsu.co/)
- [crypti - decentralized app system](https://crypti.me/)
- [Iris: Decentralized cloud messaging](http://bravenewgeek.com/iris-decentralized-cloud-messaging/) - [Paper](http://www.comsis.org/archive.php?show=ppr475-1307)
- [sato.sh - like reddit but where tipping is bitcoin](https://sato.sh/)
- [PolderCast - decentralized social media, but where users store only content they are interested in (PDF)](http://liamz.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Computer-Science-Extended-Essay_Liam-Edwards-Playne.pdf) - [Paper describing PolderCast (PDF)](http://acropolis.cs.vu.nl/~spyros/www/papers/PolderCast.pdf) - [BitWeav - microblogging system based on PolderCast](http://liamz.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/whitepaper.pdf)
- [Kudos: peer-to-peer discussion system based on social voting](http://www.slideshare.net/lmatteis/kudos-a-peertopeer-discussion-system-based-on-social-voting) - [HN Discussion](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10391996)
- [NNTP - the protocol behind Usenet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_News_Transfer_Protocol)
- [HoneyLedger: Better payments for content-creators and fans](http://honeyledger.com/)
- [Urbit: Full-stack decentralized computing](http://urbit.org/preview/~2015.9.25)
- [Protip attempts to redefine internet tipping with bitcoin micropayments](http://bravenewcoin.com/news/protip-attempts-to-redefine-internet-tipping-with-bitcoin-micropayments/)
- [Beacon Reader - crowdfunding journalism](http://www.beaconreader.com/)
- [Changetip Tipworthy - post content and tip each other](https://www.changetip.com/tipworthy)
- [Ello - their manifesto is highly relevant](https://ello.co/wtf/about/ello-manifesto/)
- [Planet Awesome](http://planetawesome.org/)
- [Blockstack](https://github.com/blockstack) - naming, identity, storage
- [nntpchan](https://github.com/majestrate/nntpchan) - a decentralized image board with opt-in moderation
- [aether](http://getaether.net/)
- [Empeopled](https://empeopled.com) - Bitcoin payments for good content - [See their FAQ](https://empeopled.com/faq)
- [colony](http://colony.io)
- [backfeed](backfeed.cc)
- [Lazooz](http://lazooz.org/)
- [Decent](http://www.decent.ch/)
- [Qora](http://qora.co.in:9090/index/main.html)
- [Tent - decentralized, users own their content](https://tent.io/docs)
- [BitTess - p2p website](https://github.com/BitTess/BitTess)
- [MediaGoblin - GNU's decentralized social media app](http://mediagoblin.org/)
- [Patchwork - based on scuttlebutt](https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork)
- [a bunch of "alternative internet" links](https://redecentralize.github.io/alternative-internet/)
- [cryptosphere, built in ruby, seems similar](https://github.com/cryptosphere/cryptosphere)
- [Alexandria - blocktech.com - uses ipfs](http://blocktech.com/)
- [zeronet - based on bitcoin cryptography and bittorrent](http://zeronet.io/)
- [ipfs - decentalized storage - permanent web - global DHT](https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs)
- [sia - decentralized storage that integrates payments - sounds similar to ipfs](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1060294.0)
- [Kudos: A Peer-to-Peer Discussion System Based on Social Voting (PDF)](http://lucaa.org/docs/kudos.pdf)
- [Peer Tracks - tokens for music, allows people to be rewarded for finding good music](http://peertracks.com/)
- [Witcoin - the original "reddit, but with bitcoin"](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Witcoin)

Tools
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- [PeerJS](http://peerjs.com/) - Easy WebRTC
- [Simple Peer - easy Web RTC, works in node via wrtc](https://github.com/feross/simple-peer)
- [FreedomJS](http://www.freedomjs.org/) - Another Easy WebRTC
- [GUN.js](http://gun.js.org/) - NoDB High replication memcache
- [PouchDB](http://pouchdb.com/) - A clientside CouchDB-like database that syncs when online with a CouchDB server
- [WebTorrent](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent) - Torrent, for HTML5
- [MaidSafe](http://maidsafe.net/) - A blockchained coin/storage
- [BitcoinJS](http://bitcoinjs.org/) - Bitcoin's JS Swiss knife
- [Coinspark](http://coinspark.org/) - Smart contracts on the blockchain (non-js)
- [Codius](https://codius.org/) - Smart contracts on the blockchain (js)
- [Key-hq](https://www.npmjs.com/package/key-hq) - BIP32 compliant HD keychain
- [Bitcore](https://github.com/bitpay/bitcore) - bitpay's javascript implementation of bitcoin
- [bcoin](https://github.com/indutny/bcoin) - chjj's implementation - has SPV support in node
- [fullnode](https://github.com/ryanxcharles/fullnode) - ryanxcharles's implementation - similar codebase to bitcore, but monolithic, and written in ES 2015
- [webcoin](https://github.com/mappum/webcoin) - an SPV node that works in a browser, based on bitcore
- [Bitmessage](https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page) - Blockchain specifically dedicated to messaging, think SPV client but with messages, anonymous identities and proof of work message requirement (non-js).
- [NPM Bitmessage](https://www.npmjs.com/package/bitmessage) - Bitmessage Node.js implementation supporting browserify, alpha quality, still no outgoing connection on browser.
- [Bitmessage-node](https://github.com/RexMorgan/bitmessage-node) - Bitmessage API library, piggybacks on native Bitmessage installation
- [BitID](https://github.com/bitid/bitid) - Public key based authentication using Bitcoin Wallets facilities
- [Blockstack](http://blockstack.org/) - Very similar project to Datt
- [Ephemeral](https://github.com/losvedir/ephemeral2) - Ephemeral content stored only by the viewers of it
- [rupy - a distributed database for the web](https://github.com/tinspin/rupy)

Bitcoin, lightning network, sidechains
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- [Emulation of Hash-Time-Locked Contracts of the Lightning network by a trusted, but publically auditable escrow service (PDF)](https://cornwarecjp.github.io/amiko-pay/doc/lightning_emulation.pdf)
- [Reaching The Ground With Lightning (draft 0.1) - Rusty Russell](http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/ln-deploy-draft-01.pdf)
- [Rusty Russell 1](http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=450), [Rusty Russell 2](http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=462), [Rusty Russell 3](http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=467), [Rusty Russsell 4](http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=477)
- [Lightning Network implementation](https://github.com/LightningNetwork/lnd)
- [Overview of BIPs necessary for lightning - Tadge Dryja](https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/scalingbitcoin/hong-kong/overview-of-bips-necessary-for-lightning/)
- [Alex Axelrod's Bitcoin Wiki page on chained payment channels](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/User:Aakselrod/Draft)
- [Experimental lightning node in python](https://github.com/hashplex/Lightning)
- [Amiko pay - something very much like the lightning network implemented in python, distinct from the hashplex one](https://github.com/cornwarecjp/amiko-pay)
- [Thunder Network - a more near-term solution for our micropayments problem, already implemented in Java](http://thunder.network/)
- [A fast and scalable network with bitcoin micropayment channels (PDF)](http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christian_Decker5/publication/277991245_A_Fast_and_Scalable_Payment_Network_with_Bitcoin_Duplex_Micropayment_Channels/links/55780a4e08aeb6d8c01cf2d0.pdf) - not lightning, but similar
- [Lightning implementation on elements sidechain](https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning)
- [Peter Todd: Near-zero fee transactions with hub-and-spoke  micropayments](https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg06576.html)
- [BitPay: Impulse: Inter-Channel Payments](http://impulse.is/impulse.pdf)
- [The "original" description of payment channels on the Bitcoin Wiki](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contract#Example_7:_Rapidly-adjusted_.28micro.29payments_to_a_pre-determined_party)
- [Mike Hearn: Announcement of payment channels in BitcoinJ](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=244656.0)
- [Pure No-Trust Solution using only OP CLTV](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2015-August/000127.html)

External documents generated by contributors
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- [Ryan and Dan's map of the space of actions, actors and whether/how much to pay](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tGbSExNSsTXhNv9TtPC4Mcg3bY4oEGk5Nr2Eibp4Uz4/edit)
- [Darren's marketing plan](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n61bW6JYmzLP0BQQUsFmVj5ilHKZ2S4QBAewKuH6xjo/edit)
- [Datt Goals over 4 years - generated Aug. 22, 2015](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C9FNbS8GlQ6z5wwNXT2NsbWXPmSTDyVkl4MUmv6h770/edit)
- [Brad's "BRATT" - alternative focus on content creators at expense of mods](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rhJgpqig4OGiaiyRyiaRPFIPPRXQaIDvcHeuZJr0pFI/edit#slide=id.ga539ea70f_0_71)
- [Brad's business-focused mockups](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SlSlpEtZWa6g3jddrFdpY0hL9W8YePWItrOV0W4bPyc/edit#slide=id.g63d6e66a7_0_200)
- [Brad's overview of the amount of money earned by participants for shared revenue](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16vtDV3Ot4lrr2twpUS8Sqgg4OrJ2KIrnQwsuppy56sI/edit#gid=1827203914)
- [Paul's reward allocation model](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19mUSGUwLukbskz5dIj1QXM0rAPmCBrbXZeLz908LfmU/edit#gid=1936031705)
- [Paul's DATT Concepts & Principles](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AEHdOlQMyyuZ3U0a1BOcZtX8kAPWZynFVx9r21NPtiE/edit#)
- [aramkris view of Business Model - Updated post the hackathon] (https://github.com/dattnetwork/dattdocs/blob/master/DATTmodel3.md)
- [aramkris view of shared revenue - Updated post the hackathon] (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_M0KyHaBJqUIOl4KDZYYpE3gSyq8XhAQEy1csPABiHw/edit?usp=sharing )
- [aramkris - Business thoughts: Misc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vhLrVlBu7_l_xgXkUs9HCWd4nOuh9G4TagO2zjU9Gys/edit?usp=sharing)
- [aramkris - business plan](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k1bH3woxXLAH6glqEnsNZNyxCxnShVXD7moNsNGME54/edit)

Comment threads
---------------
- [2015-07-06: Hacker News thread on "Fix reddit with bitcoin"](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9836677)
- [2015-07-15: Zapchain reposted the article "Fix reddit with bitcoin" with very good engagement](https://www.zapchain.com/a/1GVIzt8bnL)
- [2015-07-15: /r/bitcoin thread on "Fix reddit with bitcoin"](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3c9bw1/fix_reddit_with_bitcoin_ryan_x_charles/)
- [2015-07-15: Yishan's thoughts on a decentralized reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3ckf7u/ryan_x_charles_is_building_a_decentralized_reddit/csxsm1w)
- [2015-09-01: /r/bitcoin thread about the CoinDesk article](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3j79li/inside_the_movement_to_build_a_bitcoinpowered/)
- [2015-10-29: /r/bitcoin thread on the article from CoinJournal](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3qr99v/public_launch_of_bitcoinpowered_decentralized/)
- [2015-12-12: Datt prototype v0.1.0 complete (decentralized reddit)](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3wggu7/datt_prototype_v010_complete_decentralized_reddit/)
- [2016-02-13: /r/datt](https://www.reddit.com/r/Datt/)
- [2016-02-27: Discussion about Yours from the hackathon](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/47ztk3/yours_social_network_for_p2p_content_monetization/)
- [2016-04-07: Link to RXC article about why bitcoin over ethereum](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4d7kmv/why_datt_and_yours_network_will_use_bitcoin_and/)
- [2016-04-07: Another link to RXC article about why bitcoin over ethereum](https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4d7kud/why_datt_and_yours_network_will_use_bitcoin_and/)
- [2016-04-12: Yours (Datt) secret preview v0.2.0](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4eioyl/yours_datt_v020_secret_preview_decentralized/)
- [2016-04-13: r/bitcoin thread on "Yours is now Datt" article](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4emn4s/datt_is_now_yours_and_has_a_new_way_to_monetize/)
- [2016-04-13: r/btc thread on "Yours is now Datt" article](https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4emn6i/datt_is_now_yours_and_has_a_new_way_to_monetize/)

Press
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- [2015-07-05: Fix reddit with bitcoin.](https://medium.com/@ryanxcharles/fix-reddit-with-bitcoin-7da3f85fb9ba)
- [2015-07-05: re/code: The next reddit will likely be built on the bitcoin blockchain](http://recode.net/2015/07/05/fred-wilson-the-next-reddit-will-likely-be-built-on-the-bitcoin-blockchain/)
- [2015-07-06: Business Insider: The next Reddit could be based on bitcoin and impossible to censor](http://www.businessinsider.com/fred-wilson-blockchain-reddit-openbazaar-uncensorable-2015-7)
- [2015-07-06: Cryptocoins News: Former Reddit Cryptocurrency Engineer: Decentralization is the Future](https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/former-reddit-cryptocurrency-engineer-decentralization-future/)
- [2015-07-06: The Next Web: reddit came close to being decentralized last year](http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/07/06/reddit-came-close-to-becoming-decentralized-last-year/)
- [2015-07-06: Wired: This Man Says He Can Save Reddit With the Spirit of Bitcoin](http://www.wired.com/2015/07/reddit-blockchain-decentralized-internet/)
- [2015-07-06: hacked.com: Angered over Redditgate, users want a Decentralized alternative to Reddit](https://hacked.com/angered-redditgate-users-want-decentralized-alternative-reddit/)
- [2015-07-08: CoinTelegraph: Ryan X. Charles Is Building a Decentralized Reddit, and ‘Would Love Collaborators’](http://cointelegraph.com/news/114785/ryan-x-charles-is-building-a-decentralized-reddit-and-would-love-collaborators)
- [2015-07-13: CoinJournal: Interview With Former Reddit Cryptocurrency Engineer, Ryan X Charles](http://coinjournal.net/interview-with-former-reddit-cryptocurrency-engineer-ryan-x-charles/)
- [2015-07-14: CoinSpeaker: ‘Blockchain is a Huge Opportunity to Save Reddit Community,’ Says Ryan X. Charles](http://www.coinspeaker.com/2015/07/14/the-blockchain-is-a-huge-opportunity-to-save-reddit-community-says-ryan-x-charles-10683/)
- [2015-07-31: hacked.com: Former Reddit Cryptocurrency Engineer Hosts Hackathon For Reddit Alternative](https://hacked.com/former-reddit-cryptocurrency-engineer-hosts-hackathon-reddit-alternative-decentralize-things/)
- [2015-08-04: CoinTelegraph: How an Australian Teen Nearly Created a Decentralized Reddit in 1997 (Op-Ed)](http://cointelegraph.com/news/115053/how-an-australian-teen-nearly-created-a-decentralized-reddit-in-1997)
- [2015-08-15: ZapChain article that quotes the summit](https://www.zapchain.com/a/5btVKjkZls)
- [2015-08-15: ZapChain decentralization summit](https://www.zapchain.com/a/W7M8nphtCU)
- [2015-08-31: Ryan X. Charles Interview with Money & Tech](http://moneyandtech.com/ryan-x-charles-reddit/)
- [2015-09-01: CoinDesk: Inside the movement to build a bitcoin-powered reddit](http://www.coindesk.com/datt-decentralized-reddit-bitcoin/)
- [2015-10-29: CoinJournal: Public Launch of Bitcoin-Powered, Decentralized Reddit Alternative Possible in March](http://coinjournal.net/public-launch-of-bitcoin-powered-decentralized-reddit-alternative-possible-in-march/)
- [2015-11-08: Inside Bitcoins: Datt Combines Social Media with Bitcoin-Powered Incentives (Kyle Torpey)](http://insidebitcoins.com/news/datt-combines-social-media-with-bitcoin-powered-incentives/35619)
- [2015-11-09: Bitcoin Magazine: Former Reddit Cryptocurrency Engineer Explains How His Decentralized, Bitcoin-Powered Social Media Platform Will Work](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/former-reddit-cryptocurrency-engineer-explains-how-his-decentralized-bitcoin-powered-social-media-platform-will-work-1447091607)
- [2015-11-12: 8btc has an article in Chinese about Datt](http://www.8btc.com/reddit-datt)
- [2015-11-15: The Merkle: Turkey Blocks Reddit Access – Decentralized Social Networks Are Needed](http://themerkle.com/news/turkey-blocks-reddit-access-decentralized-social-networks-are-needed/)
- [2015-12-20: BTCManager: Datt To Introduce A Decentralized, Bitcoin-Enabled, Content-Sharing Platform](https://btcmanager.com/news/business/first-working-prototype-of-datt-decentralized-bitcoin-enabled-reddit/)
- [2016-01-11: Ryan X. Charles on the Bitcoin Podcast: Episode #34: 20,000 Lines Under the Code](http://thebitcoinpodcast.com/episode-34/)
- [2016-01-11: Japan Bitcoin interview with Ryan X. Charles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QRkYRR2Hm4&feature=youtu.be)
- [2016-01-26: CoinDesk: Bitcoin Social Network DATT Reaches Proof-of-Concept Stage](http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-social-network-datt-proof-of-concept/)
- [2016-02-01: Phil Gomes: How Emerging Social Networks are Applying Economic Models to Attention and Content](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-emerging-social-networks-applying-economic-models-phil-gomes)
- [2016-02-04: CoinTelegraph: Decentralized Social Networks with Bitcoin](http://cointelegraph.com/news/social-network-bitcoin-facebook-youtube)
- [2016-02-29: Finance Magnates: Yours Blends Reddit, ChangeTip and Virality at the Launch Festival Hackathon](http://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/innovation/yours-blends-reddit-changetip-and-virality-at-the-launch-festival-hackathon/)
- [2016-03-26: Coinfund.io: Five Bitcoin and Ethereum Based Projects to Watch in 2016](https://blog.coinfund.io/five-bitcoin-and-ethereum-based-projects-to-watch-in-2016-664f3a20fa3f)
- [2016-04-04: Steven McKie on the Bitcoin Podcast: Not Giving a Good Got Damn](http://thebitcoinpodcast.com/episode-50/)
- [2016-04-04: The Merkle: Ryan X. Charles is Not Convinced Ethereum will Outpace Bitcoin](http://themerkle.com/ryan-x-charles-is-not-convinced-ethereum-will-outpace-bitcoin/)
- [2016-06-06: Funding the Bigger Blockchain Space (several quotes from RXC)](https://btcmanager.com/news/finance/the-bigger-blockchain-space-venture-capital-flows-not-to-bitcoin-startups-alone/)
- [2016-04-10: CoinDesk: Why Datt is Sticking With Bitcoin Over Ethereum (CoinDesk republished article)](http://www.coindesk.com/why-developer-bitcoin-ethereum/)
- [2016-04-13: Datt is now Yours and has a new way to monetize web content](http://tldrbtc.com/2016/04/13/datt-is-now-yours-and-has-a-new-way-to-monetize-web-content/)
- [2016-04-17: Bitcoin.com on Datt rebranding to Yours](https://news.bitcoin.com/datt-roadmap-includes-rebranding-trustless-bitcoin-micropayments/)