I believe we can destroy our competition by taking advantage of the steem blockchain and web of trust system we already have, with some simple additions to enable a new layer of content storage, curation and distribution. <strong>No hard-fork required</strong>

<center><h2>Lets shut down our "competition"</h2></center>
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**If there's interest I'm happy to follow through and develop a working concept** - at this stage I'm sure it **could** be made, but I'm trying to figure out if it **should** be made.. 

**However, I also don't believe in intellectual property** - so **please** if you have the skills and interest then feel free to run with the idea. I have too many other plans already, and there are bound to be more talented people that could do this better then I can.

<em>Remember me when you're (in)famous ;)</em>

<h3>Why is this useful?</h3>
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Websites and domains are seized and censored every day, because most of the time their servers physical location is easily discovered and legal pressure can be applied automatically across the planet via email.

This constant attack on free speech is why the world is finally recognizing the need for technologies like bittorrent, ipfs, bitcoin and steem.
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<strong>Steemit could do everything LBRY, Zeronet and Decent can</strong>, in a way that doesn't require the average user to run anything more then a web browser. 

I don't like posting links to competitors.. But it's hard to even really think of them as competitors when **Decent can't even spell "blockchain" in their own <a href="https://decent.ch/src/decent-whitepaper.pdf">whitepaper</a>** <em>(Section 2, pages 2 and 3..)</em>.
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<h3>Simple site preparation:</h3>
This is the process to prepare a simple manual proof of concept page, discovered via steemit then served via bittorrent. <a href="https://github.com/elendirx/web2web">This example code</a> handles the bittorrent side of things, and could easily be modified to handle the steemit side too. 
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This is a simplified example, but it could really point to any kind of data we wanted to offer, and automate the whole process so <strong>the user doesnt even need to know about it.</strong>

- We need the user to load the initial gateway javascript code to begin browsing the site/network , but this entry gateway code could *come from anywhere*.  <em>Clearnet, Darknet, Sneakernet it doesn't matter.</em>
- You could use @someguy123 's <a href="https://steemit.com/steemit/@someguy123/anonsteem-create-anonymous-steem-accounts-without-social-media">anonsteem</a> and <a href="https://steemit.com/namecoin/@someguy123/steemdns-web-ui-and-mirror-domain-easy-to-use">steemdns</a> services to setup an anonymous dns pointer to the gateway code.
- We then create a torrent containing the html of your actual site content you want to display, seed it and record the torrent hash. 
-  Then use @picokernels <a href="https://steemit.com/steem/@picokernel/steem-tool-jedi-json-metadata-editor">jedi</a> to edit your metadata and save the torrent hash to your account.

<h3>Simple site user experience:</h3>
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- The initial gateway code could load from anywhere on any domain.
- Upon loading, steemjs kicks in and searches a specific users json_metadata for the torrent hash
- <a href="https://webtorrent.io/">Webtorrent</a> then takes that hash, finds and downloads the relevant file over bittorrent
- Javascript then overwrites the page content using the torrent data instead.

You can find <a href="https://github.com/elendirx/web2web">example code geared towards the bitcoin network here </a>, and I'm sure there are *at least* dozens of developers here that could turn that code and this post into a working poc if there's interest.

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<h3>Taking the idea further..</h3>
A single basic page being discovered via steem and served up via torrent is kinda neat. But *we can go deeper.*

Don't forget that **Steemit is also a reputation / web of trust network with built in encrypted messaging and payments.**

**This opens up lots of creative possibilities** . 
- You could paywall content, take payments and send encrypted messages with new content hashes and keys to specific users in **real time** .
- We can use the web-of-trust to verify safe or valuable content hashes (reviews, moderation etc)
- We can auto discover new content by doing branching searches across our network of followed/following users.
- We can integrate all of this across our current steemit interface , or rebrand it however we want.
- We incentivize users to seed and recommend good content by splitting the rewards. The free market would work to discover the true floor cost of hosting valuable content, and this price discovery would also reinforce the value of steem itself.

<h4>I hope you can see where I'm going with this...</h4>
If we implemented some of these ideas - we could make a lot of competitors redundant . We can build on the shoulders of giants, and glue these concepts together into something even more epic than we already have.

<h2>What do you think steemit ?</h2>
**I'd love to hear feedback** on the idea, **especially** if you're *technically-minded but still don't understand* . 
**That's probably my fault**, and I plan to edit this post to better explain what I mean as I get feedback.

<strong>PS:</strong> <em>Please see these other recent posts from myself and my partner @krystle</em>.
- <a href="https://steemit.com/australia/@ausbitbank/the-time-my-town-flooded-the-fragility-of-the-food-supply-and-lessons-learned-original-photos">The time my town flooded, the fragility of the food supply and lessons learned (Original photos)</a>
- <a href="https://steemit.com/autism/@krystle/meet-katana-unique-autistic-quirks-part-1">Meet Katana ❤ Unique Autistic Quirks Part 1</a> - <em>My daughter, and some of my favourite photos</em>
- <a href="https://steemit.com/streemian/@ausbitbank/follow-votes-with-streemian-for-autopilot-curation-rewards">Follow the votes with streemian for autopilot curation rewards!</a> - <em>My vote follower list is growing :)</em>


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