Hello Aaron, First of all thank you for taking the time to check out our project! Indeed the website feels a bit outdated atm as it was designed for the project announcement[1] and alpha signup, but we will change our…
Hello everyone, AKASHA founder here. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts, happy to answer your questions!
First of all thanks for the encouraging words! > If a user is to run a "node" on their PC, how will the network react if a friend/follower is offline when data is requested from them. There are some things currently in…
We will definitely experiment with Swarm once it's out and see how well it fits with our needs. This document covers some of the differences between swarm & IPFS for those interested:…
Thank you for the kind words and support!
Hello, In the first phase an application is needed as interacting with the Ethereum/IPFS network currently requires a local Ethereum/IPFS node. IPFS for example is currently working on a javascript implementation that…
Many thanks! > Will Akasha leverage existing social graphs (fbook, twitter, email, phone) This is actually something we were discussing yesterday with Dr. Gavin Wood, one of the founders of ethereum and ethcore. It is a…
We are aware of zapchain and their issues. I'd like to point that zapchain is not completely decentralized - it is rather a hybrid application using servers for content distribution and blockchain for payments.…
I agree that not everyone cares about these sort of things. However there are still people out there that do care and now those people will have an alternative. For those that do not care about the decentralized/freedom…
We are using a quadratic voting system for the microtransaction side with weights between 1 to 10. Basically this enables people to easily support their authors/artists/cause via votes/likes with amounts from 1 cent to…
Hello, akasha.world is at the moment just a presentation website hosted via GitHub Pages. We needed javascript to make it pretty :) If you want to find out more about our project with javascript disabled, our blog…
Hi there! In the first release/MVP stage AKASHA will resemble a lot to Twitter/Medium in this regard, in the sense that your published entries will be public and visible by everyone. That being said, access control is…
Hello everyone, AKASHA founder here. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on our project!
Hello Aaron, First of all thank you for taking the time to check out our project! Indeed the website feels a bit outdated atm as it was designed for the project announcement[1] and alpha signup, but we will change our…
Hello everyone, AKASHA founder here. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts, happy to answer your questions!
First of all thanks for the encouraging words! > If a user is to run a "node" on their PC, how will the network react if a friend/follower is offline when data is requested from them. There are some things currently in…
We will definitely experiment with Swarm once it's out and see how well it fits with our needs. This document covers some of the differences between swarm & IPFS for those interested:…
Thank you for the kind words and support!
Hello, In the first phase an application is needed as interacting with the Ethereum/IPFS network currently requires a local Ethereum/IPFS node. IPFS for example is currently working on a javascript implementation that…
Many thanks! > Will Akasha leverage existing social graphs (fbook, twitter, email, phone) This is actually something we were discussing yesterday with Dr. Gavin Wood, one of the founders of ethereum and ethcore. It is a…
We are aware of zapchain and their issues. I'd like to point that zapchain is not completely decentralized - it is rather a hybrid application using servers for content distribution and blockchain for payments.…
I agree that not everyone cares about these sort of things. However there are still people out there that do care and now those people will have an alternative. For those that do not care about the decentralized/freedom…
We are using a quadratic voting system for the microtransaction side with weights between 1 to 10. Basically this enables people to easily support their authors/artists/cause via votes/likes with amounts from 1 cent to…
Hello, akasha.world is at the moment just a presentation website hosted via GitHub Pages. We needed javascript to make it pretty :) If you want to find out more about our project with javascript disabled, our blog…
Hi there! In the first release/MVP stage AKASHA will resemble a lot to Twitter/Medium in this regard, in the sense that your published entries will be public and visible by everyone. That being said, access control is…
Hello everyone, AKASHA founder here. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on our project!