The name of him is decentralization

Internet platforms, not controlled by any government of the world, are technically ready to launch

At the end of May 2019, information about the unknown hitherto UNSTOPPABLE DOMAINS, which sells names in its own domain.zil, leaked to the mainstream media.

The domain.zil, which is transferred for 10 dollars to lifelong ownership (without any renewed payments), two purposes: it serves as a pseudonym for addresses (that is, accounts) of different cryptocurrencies, as well as the pseudonym of traditional webomens. The first functionality was implemented already in mid -June, the second at the end of 2019.

Question to backfill: how could the passing news about the next cryptocurrency startup be interested in the mainstream media? Answer: No. Because the wide world community of the mainstream media feed with conversations about bitcoins exclusively in the context of criminal chronicle, drug dealers, pedophiles and bianlans, diluting horror films from time to time - apparently that the readers are not only afraid, but also envy - stories about pizza, which programmers Laszlo Hanich bought for 10 thousand bitcoins, which The current exchange rate is $ 80 million.

It is also obvious that the layman of the well -fed civilizations is a blacken pseudonym for cryptocurrency accounts a little less is needed than cryptocurrency accounts themselves. These Venezuelans and Argentines have been praying to Bitcoin for years, saving them from monstrous inflation of national money. The inhabitants of Bremen and Liezha in chocolate and with their euro dollars.

It turns out that in history with ZIL, only the final part of the message could act as a viral detonator - the use of the domain as a pseudonym of traditional domain addresses. In other words, the system built by Unstoppable Domains will allow you to associate novayagazeta.zil with the usual domain Novayagazeta.ru.

The question is, who needs it? Moreover, what's the sensational?

I would venture to assume that the news of the launch of the domain.zil is not a sensation or even a revolution.

This is a bomb, adjusted under the belly of the entire world of relations in the world between states, politicians and corporations, on the one hand, and all ordinary inhabitants of the planet on the other.

I understand that the statement is not only incomprehensible, but also binding a lot, so I will explain my thought.

I’ll start with repentance: for the sake of maintaining the intrigue, I sainted a bit, concealed a small detail from readers. Zil is not any other domain, but a phenomenon of a completely different nature. The domain of Unstoppable Domains is in no way integrated into the world's official domain names system, which the “domain names and IP address management” (ICANN) corporation with headquarters in Los Angeles steers.

Domain.zil is not even related to the Internet: he lives in the Zillqa cryptotototototototototototototototototototototototoken, which, by definition, is decentralized and distributed through thousands of computers around the world.

Now, is it more and more begin to take shape in an alarming picture. I will take advantage of the already given example: if the New Gazeta registers the domain of novayagazeta.zil to the eternal property, no one will ever take it away from it again. Neither by decision of the White House, nor by the decision of the Kremlin, nor by the decision of the Internet provider, nor by decision of Roskomnadzor, nor by court decision, nor by decision of the Pope.

Why so? Because such is the nature of decentralized networks, cryptoeconomics, blockchain and, in our history, domain name, which lives in a distributed one -ranking network. The domain of novayagazeta.zil exists and at the same time it is not anywhere.

You probably repeatedly read how, by order of one or another American (or any other progressive and not very), the court arrested or confiscated certain domains? Remember Megaupload, Piratbay, Rutracker?

So: domains. Zil cannot be closed. In principle.

Do you feel what slippery path this dark Unstoppable Domains starts us on? It’s just further around the corner that the beast lurked, the wise dragon Daneris Targaryen (I can’t get rid of this metaphor!).

Well, thanks to a decentralized blockchain, the domain name acquires immortality. But this is just a name. And how are things with the server itself, to which this name indicates? How to protect yourself to the site, where are the articles of authors and readers' comments?

We know that the sacred work of the struggle against the spread of incorrect ideas is not limited to one confiscation of domain names. Domain confiscation, of course, is the most effective, but the procedure is too troublesome. Something simpler is more practiced: for example, IP address blocking, if you are lucky, the physical capture of the server itself.

If someone thinks that the raiding of servers is a branded privilege of domestic (or Chinese) power, he is mistaken. Servers in the United States are also captured. And in Europe too. It is quite regular and methodically. Just because the interests of capitalism of total surveillance (Surveillance Capitalism, the term Shoshany Zuboff) are no less aggressive than the interests of non -Beliberal democracies (Farida Zachariah) and post -communist mafia states (Balint Magyar).

And here we have a moment of truth.

The fact is that a decentralized domain. ZIL is only one aspect of a global project aimed at creating a decentralized Internet.

The one who does not even need to scream "Dracaris!" - He himself, by definition, will sweep away everything in his path.

The fact that part of humanity, not incorporated in the world establishment, dreams of creating a decentralized Internet, which cannot be controlled, nor to close, nor suppress, we learned from the cult youth series "Silicone Valley".

Richard Hendricks and comrades, in the head of Richard Hendrix, in whose vocabulary the word “Fuck” occurs 10 times more often than the word “I”, successfully creates a one -column computer network, which is first distributed through the smart refrigerators of the planet, and then all smartphones and computers.

The audience watched the series, sighed and returned, as it seemed to them, from a fairy tale to reality.

So, the audience miscalculated. A decentralized Internet is not a fairy tale, and not even a pilot project.

These are hundreds of energetically developing projects, many of which are today at the stage of final testing.

And this means that at the end of 2019, when the support of the ZIL domains of real sites begins, a good dozen blockchains will be ready for operation, distributing the same site for many servers.

All this, by the way, is possible to feel today. The co -founder of Unstoppable Domains Brad Kam recommends domains.Zil to connect today to IPFS (Interplanetary File System - an interplanetary file system), which is essentially capable of duplicate the functionality of the modern Internet. The only difference is that the IPFS is unsinkable: it is impossible to close access to it (neither through the IP blocking, nor through the confiscation of servers, nor through DPI), it is impossible to delete a single document (text, video, sound recording, database, electric table, image, etc.) without the resolution and will of the owner of this document.

Attempts to create decentralized Internet have been conducted intensively since 2015. Many, faced with technological difficulties, a lack of financing and - not least in importance - the apathy of potential users and the wide masses, which are enough Facebook and Twitter, closed (Meganet Tolstoy hacker Kim Dotcom, the Bittorrent Project Maelstorm). But many continue to actively develop.

From everything that I managed to view in the process of preparing the article, the most stable impression was left by the Hungarian project Zeronet, which involves the cryptography of Bitcoin and the protocol Bittorrent. By the way, Zeronet provides registration of domains.BIT, which are located in the Namecoin blockchain and, thereby, acts as a direct competitor to Unstoppable Domains.

You won’t believe it, but today, in full combat readiness in a decentralized network space, there is an almost complete set of popular services. Within the framework of the BlockStack decentralized application, you will find:

• Graphite - crypto -proof, decentralized and non -certificate analogue of Google Docs for group work on documents;

• Recall - a photo and video storage service, protected by through encryption (Alternative Google Photos);

• Stealthy is a decentralized short message manager (an alternative to WhatsApp and Telegram).

• As well as the notarial service of Blockusign, the Misthos finance program, the Menvaul file storage.

The Blockstack competitors are launched by the decentralized analogues of Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, Facebook ... You can imagine: all this is already and is ready for massive settlement!

Under the curtain, as usual (you can’t read it against the style), - a large barrel of tar. As you can see, decentralized Internet in all the necessary aspects - from domain names to hosting and social services - has already opened its doors and wait for customers. That's just customers, for some reason, are not very in a hurry.

As a result, the situation of the classic Catch-22 is created: decentralized services are already being ready to replace the classic Internet today, which is 99% controlled by state authorities and megacorporations, but this cannot do this without mass demand. But there is no mass demand. And - I risk assuming - in the foreseeable future is not expected.

As a result, even such an advanced decentralized Internet system as Zeronet four years after launch is still in the early Beta stage.

Why this happens. Now I will once again say to Kramol, which will allow you to dismiss the world establishment from everything written above, as from a harmless trifle: the vast majority of the inhabitants of our planet show absolute indifference to politics and freedom of self -expression, and to protect their digital identity, and to all the rest of the delirium, which is almost 30 years old, cryptoanarchists have been beating and about 30 years. Libertarians.

Is there a terrible tsuckerberg in our beloved Facebook by lemmings? Yes to health! Our personal five -minute of fame! Sells my personal data to greedy advertising agencies, which then pointed me only those products that will interest me? So send Zuckerberg for this! Because consumerism is the only religion that we confess. This is our religion. Our native, beloved religion, and we are a mountain for it.

Is everything so hopeless? No, of course! In the same way as cryptoeconomics will never replace by itself or supplant a classic financial system from the market with all its banks and credit money, so decentralized Internet will never replace a comfortable large brother.

Both cryptoeconomics and an obscene Internet will exist in parallel in the form of an alternative for those who need it.

In my opinion, more than enough.