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dheera 5 hours ago

Time to create a decentralized, blockchain-based GitHub (GitCoin?) and have every commit be a transaction on the chain. Nothing would ever be takedownable.

zzo38computer 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Git already has a blockchain; what you will need to do next is to make copies of the objects of the repositories on other servers as well. (However, I don't know if the blockchain includes tags on git (it seems to me that it might not but I don't know enough about it), although it does include objects. Fossil includes tags in the blockchain as well as files, commits, etc.)

LeoWattenberg 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I mean, torrenting is decentralised and not technically takedownable. But it was entirely possible to make it legally painful for people involved in it, as seen in eg. The Pirate Bay, megaupload or an entire cease-and-desist letter industry around individual torrenting users

Intentional noncompliance with copyright law can get you quite a distance, but there's a lot of money involved, so if you ever catch the wrong kind of attention, usually by being too successful, you tend to get smacked.

JCattheATM 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> I mean, torrenting is decentralised and not technically takedownable.

It's fairly trivial to block torrent traffic.

michaelmrose 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The cost would be incredible even for just a pointer to distributed file storage

odie5533 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Github stores about 19 PB. That would cost about $20k a year on Filecoin. Filecoin currently has more supply than demand because it's speculation-driven right now.

dheera 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There wouldn't be an org maintaining it. You would just buy $100 worth of GitCoin and that would be enough for 10000 commits, or something like that.

cmrdporcupine 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes, using blockchain to defraud the GPL.

Checks out sufficiently dystopian, yep.

If you could work some gratuitous LLM in there, we could be a little closer to torment-nexus territory. Keep working at it.

ycombinatrix 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

git already uses a blockchain lol