The Ownerless Library

Presented at The Eleventh HOPE (2016), July 23, 2016, 5 p.m. (60 minutes)

Managing a subversive digital library takes courage: Julian Assange is in exile and the founders of The Pirate Bay received prison sentences. How can we design a digital library without a central administrator to attack? To meet this challenge, we'll sneak data into the Bitcoin blockchain, permanently destroy bitcoins, and build a peer-to-peer network entirely out of browsers. If we do it right, we won't be able to take the library down even if we wanted to!


Presenters:

  • Paul Kernfeld
    Paul Kernfeld is a software engineer and peer-to-peer systems enthusiast.

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