Would websites like Kickass Torrents benefit a lot from this technology?
Yes, because website will be copied across the network and you cannot take it down unless you switch off all the computers on the network.
Even if someone would try to use police against all of the users lets say 'participating in criminal activity', as far as I'm aware technology used in Phantom allows to use it with Tor.
If that is true then you would have let's say 100 hosts running via Tor with the same copy of all the websites. Try to take down that
bbcoin's explanation is correct. Phantom provides fully meshed, distributed serving of sites and content,
meaning there is no centralized webspace provider that could be censored in order to remove content
from the network.
We don't endorse any unlawful activity, but in many cases, e.g. freedom of speech, users will move in a
grey area so they have to be aware that Phantom will not provide any anonymity better than TOR.
Please explain how exactly your decentralized hosting work? Do miners host content and earn fees for serving? Where exactly sites are stored? in SHF blockchain? How can i guatrantee that my site won't be deleted? Is your solution similar to SiaCoin hosting idea but build on top of SHF network?
Miners do not host data by default, they "only" secure the blockchain and validate transactions. They participate in
Phantom when they mine contracts, e.g. for domains.
In principal every user of Phantom can contribute to the network by opening a specific port and serving data. The
content is located in a file on a peer's computer. Phantom is currently not intended to be a solution for storing large
quantities of data like SIA or IPFS.
We focus on user generated content like blogs, forums or personal websites of any kind, combined with the ability
to integrate blockchain specific features like direct payments or decentralized applications, all with the benefit of
an immutable server network.
As development progresses, we will introduce a distributed node system allowing users to participate in a reward
based program that is, in essence, similar to SIA or DASH: if you set up a node on our network and do certain jobs
(for example serve content to peers) we will reward you with a payment.
You can guarantee your site will not be deleted by the very nature of Phantom, your site is everywhere and nowhere
(fully meshed). In a very basic way you could say everyone hosts everything (with exceptions like filters or flags
that will be introduced at some point). If one, two or a hundred hosts fail the remaining hosts will still have a backup
of your site and spread that to new visitors and other nodes. Your site will stay online until the last peer serving it is
gone.
When you publish a site it is tied to your private key, which means only you can modify the content or reset it by
publishing an empty site.
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