Topic: Blockchain affecting Websites? (Read 146 times)

It's the new trend.
The blockchain will repalce everything.
Take a look at the alt section.
The blockchain is a solution for healthcare,traffic,jobs,housing,rentals,food, alien proof AA defense...should I go on?

What is happening right now and the reason this topic was created is madness.
People looking at the blockchain as if Jesus is coming.

Of course it can't replace website, blogs or forums. Shops !?!?! Why and how ? But mostly ...why???


You were thinking of a decentralized system so that domain names can't be seized.
That's a thing that can be done.

The op is thinking, if you call that thinking of a www blockchain, not just DNS , the entire content to be on a chain.
I'm having trouble seeing youtube and their petabyte farm on a chain.

Blogs,websites and giant search engines will not be vanished, but as we enter in the blockchain era  these existing  internet giants will be out of monopoly train. Blockchain will create a new ecosystem and hybrid internet where everything is going to be decentralized and where majority of companies don’t want to miss the technology so everything will be jumping on the wagon.

What are the differences with Hostcoin ?

Just curiousity

There is a project that is trying to tackle this now but not sure how their progress has fared thus far. I was interested in them last year but then realized the scope of the project was so vast that I don't know if it could get completed. MaidSafeCoin was that project and I hope they do make the internet decentralized but the order seems so tall that again I am not sure if it is even possible.

Yeah, blockchain indeed have a potential to disrupt many sectors. But I didn't get what OP meant by eliminating forums, blogs etc. Forums and blogs are the types of content that can be loaded on blockchain to have decentralized web. Blockchain can only act as a decentralized medium for saving and viewing content, it can't replace the content.

You seem to have understood what he meant.

I got confused because "the blockchain" were not made to replace the WWW , but just money, if we are talking about BTC.
So i wonder why OP thought that decentralized money can destroy forums , blogs, etc.

If he was talking specifically about a new WWW on the blockchain, like Namecoin/Hostcoin, then OP's question would make more sense

For the most part the blockchain isn't something that's going to challenge websites or the worldwideweb, in fact it will mostly work side by side it, most blockchain projects rely on it to be implemented and used. They will only enhance one another.

Blogging will be still in used, unless people would be able to invent something that we could talk via minds (ESP) and no further writings for us to understand, communicate and interact with people.
Even though there are shops that uses blockchain, still we need the sites and domain or where would we put those things, on side of the internet? We really need to make discussions for example there is an instance that people need to ask something, then somebody would answer them just like we are doing right now, and this is one of the things that are called blogging. So there still a need for it, maybe in the future but not now.

Your question was not clear to me, AFAIU you want a decentralized web ?
You want to have a web where the gov does not censor websites anymore ?

Look into Hostcoin and Namecoin
https://hostcoin.io/
https://namecoin.org/


Basically they are an attempt to build a new WWW built on a blockchain.

In the normal web, when your browser tries to browse a website, it firstly needs to discover the IP address of the computer/server where that website is.
This initial step needs the famous DNS and is called DNS Resolution, which is centralized.

DNS resolution is centralized because the browser does it by contacting well-known servers, called DNS servers, that provide the website's IP , and these DNS servers are controlled by the gov.
When the gov decides that a website is competing with its business and evil plans, he decides to ban that website.

Hostcoin and Namecoin provide a decentralized DNS resolution and solve this censorship issue.
They let everybody have a website on their local computers and browse the websites on the blockchain with no centralized DNS.


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EDIT: you mentioned google.
These blockchain solutions i think will be free from the Google search engine, because the websites in those blockchains are not indexed by google but you have to use other means to do a website lookup via search queries.
So the answer is No, over there we are not affected by the google monopoly, fortunately
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EDIT 2: how will they affect the old WWW ?
There's the potential to gain popularity in a few years, pretty much like TOR did, but not replace the regular WWW.
Maybe they can do better than TOR if they are good at marketing it, so it will be worth the struggle to register your site on Hostcoin/Namecoin

And how do you think the blockchain technology can make a different internet without blogs, shops, forum, etc and why the blockchain technology would make websites disappear from the www. I don't get your point.

Do you know how websites could be affected by the blockchain, for example forums, blogs, shops, comparison-sites...

We running a plenty of blogs and we don`t know if they will be generate earnings in the future, when the blockchains is ready for the society. Will the people still use Google to find informations or is it a complete different internet without blogs, shops, forum, comparison-sites...?