Censorship-Free Social Network AKASHA Aims to Tackle Internet Censorship With Blockchain Technology
A few weeks ago Bitcoin Magazine published a report on the launch of AKASHA, a blockchain-based social network built on top of Ethereum and IPFS (the InterPlanetary File System).
In a followup report, AKASHA CEO Mihai Alisie says that the idea behind creating a blockchain-based social network came to him and his team as they were looking for ways to use existing technologies such as Ethereum and IPFS to solve bigger problems.
The team eventually decided to select the issue of internet censorship as the problem to tackle, and the best way to address the issue, according to Alisie, was to build a better channel of expression in the form of a decentralized publishing platform.
Read more from the followup interview at Bitcoin Magazine
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Anyone emailed John Camdir this post? Hosting an article about building a social media product on the blockchain on a social media platform on the blockchain is a bit meta or recursive or...something.
"Queen of the Damned" + 666 logo ... it's sure to be a hit! ;)