Centralized vs Decentralized Identity tradeoffs: Twitter/X, YouTube, Mastodon, ActivityPub and NOSTR
2025-07-12
Social media and various other online platforms require some sort of identity to provide their services and to customize experience to us. What does it mean exactly and how does it work in practice? Currently most, if not all, of these platforms - Twitter/X, YouTube, Reddit, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, GitHub, Amazon, Spotify and the like - are account-based.
Bitcoin P2P Network: peer discovery, reachability and resilience
2025-04-05
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Networks introduce a completely new set of challenges. In the traditional Client-Server Architecture, there is a server and client ... Things work completely differently in the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Networks. These networks consist of equal peers that communicate directly with each other. Their goal is to be as decentralized as possible and not to have any single point of control or failure.
Who controls the Internet and How it works?
2024-08-31
We take the Internet, as it is, completely for granted. But have you ever wondered: what it is, how it works and who controls it? At its core, the Internet is just a...